I soon found it more tiresome riding without tirrups than walking and of course chose the latter making the Indian carry my pack.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

PRACTISE, plot, conspire. PRAGMATIC, an expert, agent. PRAGMATIC, officious, conceited, meddling. PRECEDENT, record of proceedings. PRECEPT, warrant, summons.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

[Pg 178] Furthermore, some of the caffein of the coffee may pass into the mother's milk, thus reaching the child, so that the use of coffee during the nursing period is undesirable on this ground also.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Magsilbi ka sa pangílad kay maáyu kang mupatúu ug táwu, You will do well as a swindler because you can make people believe you. maN-r-(→) n swindler.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If an excellent Government, defended by wise laws, a loyal people, and a free Church, can make people happy and proud of their country, surely we have every reason to rejoice in our new Dominion.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Whence heavie persecution shall arise On all who in the worship persevere Of Spirit and Truth; the rest, farr greater part, Will deem in outward Rites and specious formes Religion satisfi’d; Truth shall retire Bestuck with slandrous darts, and works of Faith Rarely be found: so shall the World goe on, To good malignant, to bad men benigne, Under her own waight groaning, till the day Appeer of respiration to the just, And vengeance to the wicked, at return Of him so lately promis’d to thy aid, The Womans seed, obscurely then foretold, Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord, Last in the Clouds from Heav’n to be reveald In glory of the Father, to dissolve Satan with his perverted World, then raise From the conflagrant mass, purg’d and refin’d, New Heav’ns, new Earth, Ages of endless date Founded in righteousness and peace and love, To bring forth fruits Joy and eternal Bliss.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

CUT: Master Parson says right.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Count Sebastian, with the bands of Italy and Illyricum, was ordered to invade their country, most probably on the side of Rhaetia.
— 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

[Clark, May 17, 1804] Thursday the 17th 1804 a fine Day 3 men Confined for misconduct, I had a Court martial & punishment Several Indians, who informed me that the Saukees had lately Crossed to war against the Osage Nation Som aplicasions, I took equal altitudes made the m a. to be 84° 39' 15" measured the Missouries at this place and made it 720 yards wide, in Banks.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“You haven’t quite caught my point yet,” said Dr. O’Grady patiently.
— from General John Regan by George A. Birmingham

"Two," he replied, with a stare which caused Mrs. Prymmer to unfold her fat hands from over the long white apron she always wore, and to rise in some confusion to her feet.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

When the mother makes pottery her small daughter makes crude, miniature pieces: when the mother bakes corn cakes her little shadow bakes tiny cakes of mud and, after a time, is allowed to use the precious corn meal itself.
— from Indians of the Mesa Verde by Don Watson

"Not to live, precious," corrected Mrs. Pendleton quickly.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

John Forristall Fort Coulonge Mansfield Pontiac Q Thomas Bryson Fort Erie Bertie Welland
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

“What a Roman father!” cried Mrs. Pasmer, greatly amused, and letting herself go a little further yet.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

Monsieur Bruyère has given us the Character of an absent Man 2 , with a great deal of Humour, which he has pushed to an agreeable Extravagance; with the Heads of it I shall conclude my present Paper. '
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Then the next step is that this self-surrender, consequent upon my faithful acceptance of the Lord's surrender for me, changes my whole conception as to what I call my possessions.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

A more agreeable remembrance is that of two small apples, about the size of walnuts, given me by a boy named Henry Clay Montague Porter, of the Sixteenth Connecticut.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4 by John McElroy

You ask, p. 19, "was ever character more pacific than that of Jesus?
— from Letter to the Reverend Mr. Cary Containing Remarks upon his Review of the Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing the New Testament to the Old by George Bethune English