And here are aged Moors with flowing white beards and long white robes with vast cowls; and Bedouins with long, cowled, striped cloaks; and Negroes and Riffians with heads clean-shaven except a kinky scalp lock back of the ear or, rather, upon the after corner of the skull; and all sorts of barbarians in all sorts of weird costumes, and all more or less ragged.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Nark , a person in the pay of the police; a common informer; one who gets his living by laying traps for publicans, &c. Sometimes called a “nose.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Nor would I be a Convertite so cold, As not to tell it; If this be too bold, Pardons are in this market cheaply sold.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

They may be faint and weak; they may be very vague cognizers of the same realities which other conscious states cognize and name exactly; they may be unconscious of much in the reality which the other states are conscious of.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And with this view Congress should be required by the Constitution, not only to establish, but support in each of the States at least one national college; and these colleges should constitute a national university, in which the crowning studies should be natural science, military science, and the science of government.
— from Nature and Culture by Harvey Rice

In America, where the relation between servant and employer is usually a simple business arrangement, each giving certain specified considerations and nothing more, the relation of servant to master is shorn of all sentiment and affection; the servant's interests are quite apart from those of his employer, and his main object is to get the specified work done and obtain more time for himself, and sooner or later to leave the despised occupation of domestic service for some higher and more independent calling.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

It is not easy to mention a work on so vast a scale executed with so much zeal and care; compositions so copious and novel, heads so varied and so animated, contours so well expressed and so strongly relieved, colours so enchanting, so lucid and fresh after such a lapse of years.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

"It is comical," she continued, as no one answered, "what singular neighbors we are.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse

Do, salute her in good Company for an honest Woman—do, and spoil her Markets:—’twill be a pretty civil spiteful Compliment, and no doubt well taken;—come, I’ll convince ye, Sir.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn