For food and drink Are taken within our members; and, since they Can stop up certain parts, thus, easily Desire of water is glutted and of bread.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Cranky old dames that want to know why I haven't rented their dear precious homes for about seven times their value, and bunch of old crabs panning the everlasting daylights out of me because they don't receive every cent of their rentals by three G.M. on the second of the month!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Ἐξορκίζω, ( ἐξ & ὁρκίζω ) f. ίσω, to put an oath to a person, to adjure, Mat. 26.63: whence Ἐξορκιστής, οῦ, ὁ, pr. one who puts an oath; in N.T., an exorcist, one who by various kinds of incantations, &c. pretended to expel demons, Ac. 19.13.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Hunger and cold pursue them; every day their life is in jeopardy.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When a people, then, have any knowledge of public life, the notion of association, and the wish to coalesce, present themselves every day to the minds of the whole community: whatever natural repugnance may restrain men from acting in concert, they will always be ready to combine for the sake of a party.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[100-10] ¡Ya tienes ahí conversación y copas para todo el día, sobre si [100-11] las 30 cabras están preñadas o sobre si los borregos han echado cuernos!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The Anthropomorphites, who swarmed among the monks of Egypt and the Catholics of Africa, could produce the express declaration of Scripture, that man was made after the image of his Creator.
— 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

The most convincing proof that England did not intend any unfair design against the South African Republics, is the fact that she did not prepare to resist the armed attack of the Government of Pretoria which could be easily foreseen by the intense organization they were evidently making to impose Boer supremacy in South Africa.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

All the wealth which a most grateful heart can offer cannot pay this everlasting debt.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, January 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

And that he had to have change to give his mother before he could put the eight dollars and twenty-one cents the groceries cost in a safe hiding place.
— from Jerry's Charge Account by Hazel Hutchins Wilson

A gay lieutenant of the Spanish Royal Guards, known by the name of Alonzo Beldia, became violently enamoured of the beautiful Carlotta Pena, the eldest daughter of a reputable gunsmith, whose humble habitation adjoined the vast cemetery of Valencia, and whom Beldia had casually seen at a public entertainment given in that good city.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various

There were no Rhetorical Exercises today, as in the two weeks before examination students are supposed to be preparing for that event and cannot perform this extra duty.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

The green days of his first year in 1888 were remembered against him in an affectionate way by the use of Yale for several years of 'Pa' Corbin's oft reiterated expression brought forth by Pudge's greenness, which would cause 'Pa' to exclaim: 'Darn you, Heffelfinger!'
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

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— from Pleiades Club Year Book 1910 by Pleiades Club

One can play them every day and never tire of them.
— from Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry T. Finck

If anything should happen there would be a chance, provided the enemy did not "shake me out," that my book would not be lost for the second time as at Graspan.
— from Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell