Milwaukee supplies the United States with the bulk of the Hartz Mountain canaries, and there is no great crime in the deception, for the Milwaukee bird is really an improvement on the imported article, having just as fine a voice and being much hardier.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1899 In Natural Colors by Various

[103] The sheriff, with his brother, rode up and down the heath, giving money among the crowd; and the insurrection now gaining point, another gentleman “wrote on the field, upon his saddlebow,” a series of articles, which were to form the ground of the rising.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

“By dressing spruce as a buck—curling his hair backward over his ears something like a girl's, and going out, morning, noon, and night, to see Margaret Cooper.” “As there is no good reason to suppose that a student of divinity is entirely without the affections of humanity, I still see nothing inconsistent with his profession in this conduct.”
— from Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms

In truth, there is no ground for doubting the credibility of the Acts of the Apostles other than that which lies in the assumption that no record of miraculous events can be credible, and this is no ground at all.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Dust is settling on the country, and there is no great excitement to shake it off.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

It is a poore Countrie, and there is neither gold nor siluer in it: The inhabitants live there in great abundance of victuals and seruants.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

It had been their intention to go in search of it, as soon as they should try out the others that had been captured; and the information now given by Ben Brace to the captain of the whaler would enable the latter the more easily to discover the lost prize, which he estimated at the value of seventy or eighty barrels of oil, and therefore well worth the trouble of going back for.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

Thou art the Clement, and there is no God but Thee, the Powerful, the Compassionate, and the Ancient!
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

If not it will become chronic and terminate into nasal gleet, or lung complications. COUGH (Acute and Chronic)
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

Stimulated by the desire to prove himself not unworthy of such kindness, and to secure his generous friend from any loss, Herbert never overlooked aught that could advance the interests, nor grew weary of any task that could lighten the toil of Mr. Cavendish.
— from Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, The Christmas Guest by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh