[BW] into their church, that in his conffession renownced all, universall, nationall, and diocessan churches, &c., by which (say they) it appears, that though they deney the name of Brow̅ists, yet they practiss y e same, &c.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

"No wonder they are restless, so often changing rulers, and until now seldom having kings who cared a farthing for them.
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

A hundred and seventy thousand years elapse (as the play-bills put it), and then the curtain rises afresh upon neolithic Europe.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

The Sketch Book contains rather an unusual number of Narratives, some of them of extraordinary interest, and written in the best style of the best authors.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13 — Index to Volume 13 by Various

but that they kept me awake by their constant restlessness and unusual noises.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

The result was a society called the Newnham College Club, rather an unfortunate name, since it was not a club properly so-called, having no local habitation; it sometimes became confounded with the Ladies' University Club, and students were debarred from entering by the fear of expense.
— from A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge by Alice Gardner

Rain not unfrequently fell during the night, and penetrating the flimsy cotton awnings as if they had been cullenders, rendered an umbrella necessary towards the protection of the damp pillow.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Another Visual Test In the same manner your mind can reproduce an unlimited number of pictures.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 1 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller