If th’ young gentlemen had been at home, I should a’ thought they’d been setting their dogs at her, an’ worried her, poor thing, as they did many a poor thing’s cat; but I haven’t that to be feared on now.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

MARIN, in 1839, at Cinq-Cygne, in the district of Arcis-sur-Aube, first valet of Georges de Maufrigneuse and protector of Anicette.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

“Will you tell me that your three damned Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and your youngster from Bearn, have not fallen, like so many furies, upon poor Bernajoux, and have not maltreated him in such a fashion that probably by this time he is dead?
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

( Memoires sur la Vie privee de Marie Antoinette, par Madame Campan ( Paris, 1826 ), i. 12 ).
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In three months she read every kind of music, by means of my notation, and sung at sight better than I did myself, any piece that was not too difficult.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries anciently performed at Coventry.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

There are some laws that can be passed to remove temptation from their way and to help them in their progress; and some changes in the jurisdiction of the lower courts, to prevent delays, may, and probably will, be made.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

A former letter showed, that upon the principles adopted in voyages of discovery by your own nation, the plea for detaining me a prisoner was untenable; and also that independently of any passport, it ill became the French nation to stop the prosecution of a voyage of discovery, especially one carried on with the zeal that mine has hitherto been.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Any other word permits of quibbling, and lets us, after the fashion of the soft determinists, make a pretence of restoring the caged bird to liberty with one hand, while with the other we anxiously tie a string to its leg to make sure it does not get beyond our sight.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Law, courts of, 102 , etc. 114 , 150 , 155 , 212 Laws, 101 , etc. 150 , see also Torture, Corporal punishment, Process, Fine, Prayaschitta, Panchayit, Police Lead, the metal, 76 , 78 , 297 League for defence, called Athabhai, 239 League for defence, called Satbhai, 239 Leontice, a tree called Jumne Mundroo, 85 Leprosy, 72 Liberty, 108 Lichens, a drug called Jhul, 87 Limbu, a people, 25 , 54 , 118 , 160 , 164 Limestone, 66 , 82 Limi, a town, 241 Lodi, a tribe, 297 Lohangga, founder of a dynasty, and its history, 132 , 134 , etc. 146 , etc. Lordships Twelve, a territory subject to Gorkha, see Bara Thakurai Lulu, see Bos grunniens Madarmali , the common silver coin 215 Madder Indian, see Manjit page 357 p. 357 Madra, an ancient name for Bhotan, derived from a prince by whom that country called properly Sailya, was governed, 8 Magar, (Mungur of Kirkpatrick,) a people, 25 , 28 , 156 , 160 , 164 , 169 , 171 , 178 , 240 , 244 , 264 , 291 , 297 Mahadatta, Raja of Palpa, 170 , 172 , 250 , 268 Mahalok, one of the twelve lordships, 306 Maha Maia, see Devi Mahamandal, a peak of Himaliya, containing mines, 195 Mahatari, a district, 135 , 160 , 162 , 168 Mahato, a petty officer, 102 , see Mokkuddum Mahes, a river, 193 Mahes Domohana, a town, 193 Mahipat Sa, chief of Garhawal, 298 Maingmo or Meyangma, part of the Himaliya mountains, 89 , 158 , 160 Maize, a grain, 284 , 312 Majhi, a tribe, 18 , 21 , 28 , 279 Majhoya, a mart, 124 Makunda Sen, son of Rudra, Raja of Palpa, 131 , 170 Makunda Sen, son of Udyata, Raja of Palpa, 170 , etc. 245 , 264 , 268 Makwani, ) a principality and district, 130 , 132 , 133 , Makwanpur, ) 144 , 164 , 167 , 195 , etc.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

§350 That a drunken man always pronounces every "s" as "sh." §351 That champagne will prevent seasickness.
— from The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Dietrich mentions a patient who remembered facts, but had totally forgotten words; while another could write, although he had lost the faculty of reading.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Spain lost one of her most distinguished modern playwrights by the death of Moratin Nicolas Fernandez de Moratin, a pupil of Goldoni, and the author of such enduring Spanish comedies as "El Baron," "La Mogigata" and "El Sí de Las Niñas."
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson