Seafarers we have ever been, and no wonder; as for me, the city of my birth is no more my home than any pleasant port between there and the London River.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I hope you have told Martha of my first resolution of letting nobody know that I might dedicate, etc., for fear of being obliged to do it, and that she is thoroughly convinced of my being influenced now by nothing but the most mercenary motives.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

In 1554 Philip and Mary incorporated the Russia Company in regular modern form; in 1581 the Turkey Company was organized; in 1600 the East India Company received its charter; and, to come directly to what is material, in 1629 Charles I. signed the patent of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams

21 Among the Papuans of the Tami Islands blood-revenge is common in the case of murder, but is not exacted in the
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

You shall support and maintain, to the best of your power, the Government and Company of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, in America, and the privileges of the same, having no singular regard to yourself in derogation or hindrance of the Commonwealth of this Company; and to every person under your authority you shall administer indifferent and equal justice.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

He was sometime the coate of Mars, but is now for more mercifull battailes in the tilt yard where whosoever is victorious the spoyles are his.
— from Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

The Outlook : "The Courtship of Maurice Buckler" is not only full of action and stimulating to curiosity, but tells a quite original plot in a clever way.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The new corporation was called the [Pg 142] "Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England."
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Oh, it does seem such cheek of me, but I never knew anyone before who—I don't know how to say it.
— from The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

habitant of Colrain, in the county of Hampshire, and colony of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, do testify and declare, that, being on the parade of said Lexington, April 19th instant, about half an hour before sunrise, the king's regular troops appeared at the meeting-house of Lexington.
— from The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes by Abraham Tomlinson