The Tamils again occupied many districts and were never entirely dislodged as long as the Sinhalese kingdom lasted.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Cose I sets here en does a washin now en den whe' de people gets push up, but don' get no regular work.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Varchi in his [401] history apologises for those architects who built the walls of the city by reminding us that, in their days, artillery was not even dreamed of, much less invented.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

The theory of the Davidic origin has in its favour the correspondence of Ahithophel's treason with the treachery of the trusted friend in the psalm; and, while it must be admitted that there is no mention of sickness in the narrative in 2 Samuel, the supposition that trouble of conscience had brought illness gains some countenance from Psalm xxxii., if it is Davidic, and would naturally explain David's singular passiveness whilst Absalom was hatching his plot.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren

Let, then, the head of this new and great goddess be adorned with a weathercock helmet, of which Love will furnish the magnetic arrow, and let a statue be raised to that great first French citizeness, who from Paris governs the world with so formidable a despotism, against whom none ever dreams of raising a revolt.
— from The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff by Octave Uzanne