East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;—Cato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Besides, ben't I engaged to you, and did I ever go off any bargain when I had promised?” “As to that point, neighbour,” said Allworthy, “I entirely release you from any engagement.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

[A; a] divide into equal groups or portions for sale.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[A Marriage Settlement.] TRANSON (Monsieur and Madame), wholesale dealers in earthenware goods on the rue des Lesdiguieres, were on intimate terms, about 1824, with their neighbors, the Baudoyers and the Saillards.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

On the other hand, Cebes appeared to grant that the soul was more lasting than the body, but he said that no one could know whether the soul, after having worn out many bodies, might not perish herself and leave her last body behind her; and that this is death, which is the destruction not of the body but of the soul, for in the body the work of destruction is ever going on.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Population Ilocos 6,500 650,000 Cagayan 12,000 300,000 Pangasinan 4,500 625,000 Pampanga 5,000 650,000 28,000 2,225,000 It may surprise the reader after all the blood and thunder to which his attention has hereinabove been subjected, apropos of northern Luzon and the winter of 1899–1900, to know that the insurgents were still bearding the lion in his den, i. e. , General Otis in Manila, by operating in very considerable force in the village-dotted country within cannon-shot of the road from Manila to Cavite in January, 1900.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

D. the first letter of the Latin word da , in English give , obliges you if you turn it up, to pay a counter.
— from Healthful Sports for Young Ladies by Mademoiselle St. Sernin

—The first difficulty is easily got over.
— from Artificial Limbs by Auguste Broca

If only he could lead the conversation away from heavy trivialities to shadowy conjectures, wistful regrets; if only they could talk of life and its disenchantments, its exquisite gestures; of sorrow, happiness and resignation.
— from The Lonely Unicorn: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

[452] Over eastward of my bean-field lived Cato Ingraham, slave, born slave, perhaps, of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built him a house 420 and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods, for which no doubt he was thanked; and then, on the northeast corner, Zilpha, colored woman of fame; and down the road, on the right hand, Brister, colored man, on Brister's Hill, where grow still those little wild apples he tended, now large trees, but still wild and ciderish to my taste; and farther still you come to Breed's location, and again on the left, by well and roadside, Nutting lived.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

Did I ever go on talking about it?”
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

Within the confines of the desert is every gradation of climate from north temperate to semi-tropic found in these European countries.
— from The Mentor: Reclaiming the Desert, Vol. 6, Num. 17, Serial No. 165, October 15, 1918 by C. J. (Clarence John) Blanchard

There is not much danger of a quadruped that drops in ever getting out again, till he is dragged out by the Bushman in the shape of a carcass.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

Do I ever go out?
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq