Willelmi de Ravenestone tenet dim. virgatam de eodem feodo et reddit per annum
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

We have two monthly magazines published in York, and three or four newspapers, and from New York we have two weekly newspapers, designed expressly for English readers—the Albion and the Emigrant , full of English news and English literature; so that in a month or six weeks, we have all the cream of the London and country news, as well as the best of the lighter articles from the British periodicals.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

After some time they discovered they had known each other in the days of their youth, but had never met since a certain morning on which they went out to fight a duel on account of some squabble at a mess; happily the quarrel was stopped without any harm being done, each feeling equally relieved at being prevented from trying to murder the other, as they had been persuaded they were in honour bound to do.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

He flipped the deuce end for end, revealing its bottom: “Five!”
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The Roman civil polity, with its definite enactments for every relation in life and every exigency, was always at hand, and exercised an increasing control.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

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— from Sir Wilfrid Laurier by Peter McArthur

In a popular Swedish song, in the collection translated into German by Warrens, I read this verse, where the crow assumes an entirely monstrous form; men spit at it, as they do at the devil— "Es flog ein Rabe über das Dach, Hatt' Menschenfleisch in den Krallen, Drei Tropfen Blutes träuften herab, Ich spülte, wo sie gefallen."
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

"But they do eat fish," Ethan remarked, as they walked along together; "I've seen a big buck 'coon snatch one out of the water.
— from Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Silas K. Boone

While it is highly important to know in a general way which muscles are chiefly concerned, or, rather, where they are situated, it cannot be deemed essential for every reader to learn their names, attachments, etc., down to the minutest details, as in the case of a student of anatomy proper.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills