As for their color, they were like the Irishman's pig, which would not stay to be counted, every change of position and light seemed to give them a new hue; but their prevailing color was black, or nearly so.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy; for men think that they earn their honors hardly, and pity them sometimes, and pity ever healeth envy.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

His Conspiracy of Pontiac and La Salle are among the most readable of these works.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

The taste for chivalry among classes of people apparently little susceptible of its influence may be learned from the masquerading tournament of Edward; for knightly games must have been well known to the citizens of London, or the proclamation would not have been issued, that the lord mayor, aided by the court of aldermen and the sheriffs, would, on a certain day, hold a solemn tournament.
— from The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Mills

She was the most affectionate and careful of parents, a little, shrewd-looking, [Pg 82] keen-eyed woman of remarkable strength of mind and spirits, one of those positive characters that decide promptly and execute at once, of a sanguine and irritable temper that led her to be always on the alert in thinking and acting.
— from A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

This seemed anomalous, since Cuba was an agricultural country capable of producing a large surplus of food for export instead of needing imports of food.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

"Come on, Pat, and let's see if you're a trained doggums."
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

yolks of two hard-boiled eggs; 1 [682] cup of bread-crumbs; pepper, salt, and 1 tablespoonful of chopped onion pickle; a little sugar; powdered or minced parsley; a little oyster-liquor.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

In 1835 the only residents of that portion of territory now occupied by the cities of Peru and La Salle were Lyman D. Brewster, his nephew T. D. Brewster , John Hays and family, Peltiah and Calvin Brewster ,
— from The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe

In order to pass the period of absence, the Infanta employed herself in working “divers suits of rich cloths” for Charles, of perfumed ambar leather, some embroidered with pearls, others with gold and silver.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.