Little Bill was sure that they could not have made a mistake, and ran on before his sisters shouting out, “Come on, Nancy; come on, Mary.”
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

History, as it has been hitherto written, has been— First , a narration of the supposed facts of the past, without any especial attempt to investigate the proximate causes of national characteristics or mundane progression.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It consists of numerous coils of metal tubes, to which the steam is conveyed from an out-building, which contains the furnace and other apparatus.
— from Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

C o ntramáglie, crownes or money in gibrish or rogues language.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

It is said to be the daughter of Taufanuu, or vapour of lands , which forms clouds, and as the dark cloudy covering of night comes on, man feels sleepy, because his soul wishes to go and visit its mother.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner