Ten blue tickets equalled a red one, and could be exchanged for it; ten red tickets equalled a yellow one; for ten yellow tickets the superintendent gave a very plainly bound Bible (worth forty cents in those easy times) to the pupil.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

In the tomb at Mount Vernon lie the ashes of America’s most honored son; in the Abbey, the ashes of England’s greatest dead; the tomb of tombs, the costliest in the earth, the wonder of the world, the Taj, was built by a great Emperor to honor the memory of a perfect wife and perfect mother, one in whom there was no spot or blemish, whose love was his stay and support, whose life was the light of the world to him; in it her ashes lie, and to the Mohammedan millions of India it is a holy place; to them it is what Mount Vernon is to Americans, it is what the Abbey is to the English.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

*kisíra — ug, kun 1 in case, in the event that.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"She had some foreboding" "Somebody calling in the English tongue" "My daughter kneeled, but I could not see her" AND TWELVE SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

wide our hunters did not Come in this evening the river beginning to fall H2 anchor [Clark, June 16, 1804] 16th June Satterday Set out at 7 oClock Proceed on N. 68°W. 21/2 ms. passed a Isd. close on the S. S. at the lower point Drewer & Willard had camped & had with them 2 bear & 2 Deer we took in the meat & proceeded on.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Mr. Bland came in the evening to me hither, and sat talking to me about many things of merchandise, and I should be very happy in his discourse, durst I confess my ignorance to him, which is not so fit for me to do.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After which period, Oswald was killed in a great battle, by the same pagan nation and pagan king of the Mercians, who had slain his predecessor Edwin, at a place called in the English tongue Maserfelth, 340 in the thirty-eighth year of his age, on the fifth day of the month of August.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

There is just a chance, I believe, should trouble come in the East, that I may go out on the staff."
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

That words can image to express the thought; But they who saw him did not see in vain, And once beheld—would ask of him again: And those to whom he spake remembered well, And on the words, however light, would dwell: 370 None knew, nor how, nor why, but he entwined Himself perforce around the hearer's mind;
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

No one who has not studied the original documents [p. 320] can imagine the extent to which this discrepancy proceeds; it covers almost every portion and fragment of the tale.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

The Red Cross had ordered me to start for the front next morning with some other nurses, and we were to leave at an early hour, so I had paid my hotel bill, packed my bag, and gone to bed, partly-clad, as was the custom in those exciting times.
— from Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson

But they could not reach the city of Bremen in one day, and they came in the evening to a wood, where they agreed to spend the night.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

It is pretty clearly derived from the Welsh Din or Dinas , castle on a hill (although some attribute to it a Saxon derivation), and was no doubt, like the mound called Truman’s Hill, west of the church, in the earliest times a British fortification.
— from The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 by William Henry Gladstone

This author, in his ‘Parson’s Tale,’ makes that worthy ecclesiastic complain of the “sinful costly array of clothing in the embrouding, the disguising, indenting or barring , ounding, paling , winding or bending , and semblable waste of cloth in vanity.”
— from The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower