When he entered the room, I took the first word, saying it was the most extraordinary thing in the world that an Englishman, carrying a proper passport, should be marched through the town like a felon, and detained for an hour, when his conduct had afforded no ground of suspicion.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

Before cooking in the dormitory, you and your young friends can have a nice game of ball with the merry Dutchman, only refrain from trying his relative hardness or softness by hammering the head of MUGG, the stupidest boy in the school, with it.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 by Various

Bake one to know when enough flour is added. Coffee Cake. —Take three eggs, two cups brown sugar, one cup strong coffee, quarter of cup of butter, three cups flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar, half teaspoonful each soda and ground cinnamon and cloves, half a nutmeg grated, one cup of raisins, stoned; beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add eggs beaten, coffee, flour sifted, and cream tartar, well mixed with it.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

He had his faults, and on exceptional occasions like that described by Froude,[ 1 ] when he was made the tool of Elizabeth, he was constrained to be, at least by his silence, a party to deceit which in his heart he abhorred; but that historian has not hesitated to call him "a noble gentleman of stainless honour,"[ 2 ] and to affirm that "his noble nature had no taint of self in it";[ 3 ] and though Robertson has done his best to belittle him, the verdict of history we think will settle in the acceptance of Spottiswood's eulogy: "a man truly good, and worthy to be ranked among the best governors that this kingdom hath enjoyed, and therefore to this day honoured with the title of 'the good Regent.'"
— from John Knox by William M. (William Mackergo) Taylor

The figures given above refer to December 31, which falls in the busy season; and the proportion of cash held affords no ground of complaint.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

We have stupidly assumed that Chinese history affords no glimpse of change in social evolution, no salient epoch of moral and spiritual crisis.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound