in the evening late an old man his Son & Grand Son and their Wives &c. Came down dureing the time the waves raged with great fury.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel, or cross-bar, plumed with soot, which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c. (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum. exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Postillions crack the whip: the Royal Berline is through Clermont, where Colonel Comte de Damas got a word whispered to it; is safe through, towards Varennes; rushing at the rate of double drink-money: an Unknown 'Inconnu on horseback' shrieks earnestly some hoarse whisper, not audible, into the rushing Carriage-window, and vanishes, left in the night.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

III abdô cadô cognôscô cônsequor contendô cupiô currô dêdô dêfendô êgredior incendô incolô însequor occîdô patior premô proficîscor prôgredior quaerô recipiô relinquô revertor sequor statuô subsequor suscipiô trâdô trahô CONJ.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Car comme dans d'autres petites maisons d'édition nous faisons tout nous-mêmes (sauf l'impression).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

" "She's quite a character," chuckled Doctor Dave.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But a vulgar or “fast” society has thought differently; and so we have the Slang synonyms—“beans,” “blunt” ( i.e. , specie,—not soft or rags, bank-notes), “brads,” “brass,” “bustle,” “coppers” (copper money, or mixed pence), “chink,” “chinkers,” “chips,” “corks,” “dibbs,” “dinarly,” “dimmock,” “dust,” “feathers,” “gent” (silver,—from argent), “haddock” (a purse of money), “horse nails,” “huckster,” “loaver,” “lour” (the oldest Cant term for money), “mopusses,” “needful,” “nobbings” (money collected in a hat by street-performers), “ochre” (gold), “pewter,” “palm oil,” “pieces,”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Now, my dear anti-Shandeans, and thrice able criticks, and fellow-labourers (for to you I write this Preface)——and to you, most subtle statesmen and discreet doctors (do—pull off your beards) renowned for gravity and wisdom;—— Monopolus, my politician— Didius, my 48 counsel; Kysarcius, my friend;— Phutatorius, my guide;—— Gastripheres, the preserver of my life; Somnolentius, the balm and repose of it——not forgetting all others, as well sleeping as waking, ecclesiastical as civil, whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together.——Believe me, right worthy, My most zealous wish and fervent prayer in your behalf, and in my own too, in case the thing is not done already for us——is, that the great gifts and endowments both of wit and judgment, with every thing which usually goes along with them——such as memory, fancy, genius, eloquence, quick parts, and what not, may this precious moment, without stint or measure, let or hindrance, be poured down warm as each of us could bear it—scum and sediment and all (for I would not have a drop lost) into the several receptacles, cells, cellules, domiciles, dormitories, refectories, and spare places of our brains——in such sort, that they might continue to be injected 49 and tunn’d into, according to the true intent and meaning of my wish, until every vessel of them, both great and small, be so replenish’d, saturated, and filled up therewith, that no more, would it save a man’s life, could possibly be got either in or out.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

— Convents: see Aberdeen , Aylesbury , Babwell , Bedford , Boston , Bridgwater , Bristol , Brusyard (Poor Clares) , Cambridge , Canterbury , Chester , Colchester , Coventry , Doncaster , Donegal , Dorchester , Dublin , Evesham ( see Corrigenda ),
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Nestor, Falstaff, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Sir Roger de Coverley, Captain Dugald Dalgetty and Colonel Newcome are not more distinctly delineated, or rather we should say are not more manifest to the eye and palpable to the touch.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

The most remarkable are the Passages des Panoramas, Jouffroy, Verdean, Vivienne, Colbert, Choiseul, Delorine du Saumon, &c.
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

Turkey 81 provinces (iller, singular - ili); Adana, Adiyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Agri, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydin, Balikesir, Bartin, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingol, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Canakkale, Cankiri, Corum, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Duzce, Edirne, Elazig, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskisehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gumushane, Hakkari, Hatay, Icel (Mersin), Igdir, Isparta, Istanbul, Izmir (Smyrna), Kahramanmaras, Karabuk, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kilis, Kirikkale, Kirklareli, Kirsehir, Kocaeli, Konya, Kutahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mugla, Mus, Nevsehir, Nigde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Sanliurfa, Siirt, Sinop, Sirnak, Sivas, Tekirdag, Tokat, Trabzon (Trebizond), Tunceli, Usak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak Turkmenistan 5 provinces (welayatlar, singular - welayat) and 1 independent city*:
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

ya diximos como melchior dias el capitan auia pasado en balsas el rio del tiçon para proseguir adelante el descubrimiento de aquella costa pues a el tiempo que se acabo de ercollegaron mensajeros a el canpo de la uilla de san hieronimo con cartas de diego de alarcon que auia quedado alli en lugar del melchior dias trayan nuebas como melchior dias auia muerto en la demanda que lleuaba y la gente se auia buelto sin ber cosa de lo que deseaban y paso el caso desta manera.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

'Stid o' that she wasn't thar, an' Mandy Ann come clatterin' down de stars,
— from The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes

Tea or cloffee?" "Coffee," decided Dave for both of them.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

But yet, when in 1839 the Grand Council called Dr. David Strauss to a theological professorship, the Zürich people rose to a man against the proposal, the appointment was not enforced, the Grand Council was overthrown, and Strauss pensioned.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz