Esau found Jacob rich, beloved by wives and children, and traveling in state, with servants, herds of cattle and trains of camels—but he himself was still the uncourted outcast this brother had made him.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

" Anne, in the months before Little Jem's coming, had pored diligently over several wise volumes, and pinned her faith to one in especial, "Sir Oracle on the Care and Training of Children."
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Processes employed are folding, cutting, pricking, measuring, molding, modeling, pattern-making, heating and cooling, and the operations characteristic of such tools as the hammer, saw, file, etc.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

[485] Aristotle notes, Novae exactiones, nova onera imposita , new burdens and exactions daily come upon them, like those of which Zosimus, lib. 2 , so grievous, ut viri uxores, patres filios prostituerent ut exactoribus e questu , &c., they must needs be discontent, hinc civitatum gemitus et ploratus , as [486] Tully holds, hence come those complaints and tears of cities, poor, miserable, rebellious, and desperate subjects, as [487] Hippolitus adds; and [488] as a judicious countryman of ours observed not long since, in a survey of that great Duchy of Tuscany, the people lived much grieved and discontent, as appeared by their manifold and manifest complainings in that kind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The public hope was not disappointed: after a siege of twenty-five days, he stormed the city of Edessa, and recovered from the Franks their conquests beyond the Euphrates: 39 the martial tribes of Curdistan were subdued by the independent sovereign of Mosul and Aleppo: his soldiers were taught to behold the camp as their only country; they trusted to his liberality for their rewards; and their absent families were protected by the vigilance of Zenghi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And when they nearer came a third one cried, ‘It is young Dionysos who has hid His spear and fawnskin by the river side Weary of hunting with the Bassarid, And wise indeed were we away to fly: They live not long who on the gods immortal come to spy.’
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Then the Carlats and the others closed up behind her, Badelon’s monotonous “Forward, Madame, en avant !”
— from Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman

From opium, 1 ⁄ 2 dr.; camphor, 1 dr. (both in powder); extracts of belladonna and henbane, of each 1 dr.; oil of cajeput and tincture of cantharides, of each 10 or 12 drops;
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

If the patient had met a chill at the outset, checking the eruption.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

I would have got rid of that Hunter gang long ago but they are deeply in debt to the Company and the only chance to get any of it back is to take out a little, each week, from the fish they catch.
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

But seeing it was a church, and the first church and their own church, he would make a cut, which he did after more figuring.
— from The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills by Ralph Connor