But lest I should be condemned of introducing license, while I oppose licensing, I refuse not the pains to be so much historical, as will serve to show what hath been done by ancient and famous commonwealths against this disorder, till the very time that this project of licensing crept out of the Inquisition, was catched up by our prelates, and hath caught some of our presbyters.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in the patterns of woven stuffs, or anything to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments, or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes, or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies, is a nuisance and revolt.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But I do see very little difference between the degree of the ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and that in the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so fine, nor the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene’s chappell.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

* Since my return, I learn from the captive Red Indian woman Shawnawdithit , that the vapour-bath is chiefly used by old people, and for rheumatic affections.
— from Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland by W. E. (William Eppes) Cormack

But it'll cost us both our place, y' know, Miss!"
— from While Caroline Was Growing by Josephine Daskam Bacon

How he found out about the document which the army officer was bringing home, and how he found out that the officer—in order to save time—would travel on a French liner instead of on a transport, are details that are yet to be cleared up by our people on the other side.
— from From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

I could cut up bait, or put on hooks, or take ’em off, or anything.”
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

I have endeavored to show that, starting with certain incontrovertible scientific facts, all these things logically follow, and that therefore, however far these speculations may carry us beyond our past experience, they nowhere break the thread of an intelligible connection of cause and effect.
— from The Creative Process in the Individual by T. (Thomas) Troward

c. 1640 [ Shirley ], Captain Underwit [ Bullen , Old Plays , ii. 340].
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

Despite the above-mentioned deviations, occurring chiefly about the borderlands, considerable uniformity both of physical and mental characters is found to prevail amongst the typical Negrillo groups scattered in small hunting communities all over the Welle, Semliki, Congo, and Ogowai woodlands.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

There is generally a continuous succession of teeth throughout life, the new tooth coming up below, or partly at the side of the one in use, and causing the absorption of part of its wall or base.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

There was in the house where she lived an empty chamber, unfurnished because of poverty; it was in this that the prophet, who demanded a private audience, awaited her.
— from The Mormon Prophet by L. (Lily) Dougall