We did all we could, but that was almost nothing, and I found the attempt a desperate one, though my lovely partner endeavoured to help me as much as possible.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Clifford, Hugh, and Swettenham, Frank A. A Dictionary of the Malay Language , parts i.–iii.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Each assorter is provided with a card on which are printed two sets of numbers, from one to thirty-one, and a certificate that the holder's cash was properly balanced and his till in order at the close of business on the day of the month last punched.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

Near the banks of the river Arno, in an upper room of the beautiful old palace of the Grifoni family, Beppina, the twelve-year-old daughter of the Marchese, lay peacefully sleeping.
— from The Italian Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Shylock discharges Launcelot, and Jessica, the beautiful daughter of the money lender, parts with [184] him regretfully—she gives him a secret letter to deliver to her Christian lover, Lorenzo, and then says: "Farewell, good Launcelot— Alack, what heinous sin it is in me To be ashamed to be my father's child!
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

This induration seems to have been occasioned by the constant afflux of the nutritive juices, which were stopt at that place, and deprived of their most liquid parts; the grosser ones being unable to spread in the boney cavity, by which they were confined, could only acquire a greater solidity, and change a soft body into a hard and nearly osseous mass.
— from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson

If it gave nothing but the latter work, it would be deserving of the most liberal patronage that it receives; but it is an admirable record of the greatest paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of living American players, of portraits of celebrated Americans, of great American painters, with reproductions of their work, and it is a monument of the New York Photogravure Co., which is a monument of artistic New York."
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

There are at present upward of twenty tribes speaking various dialects of the Maya language, perhaps half a million people in all.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

Dinner was ready to be served, and as soon as hats and other outer garments had been disposed of the merry little party gathered about the table.
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley

He discovered that the ardent zeal and warmth of Peter's attachment would induce him boldly to suffer death in his Master's cause, although the denial of that Master loudly proclaimed him a faithless coward.
— from Jesus, The Messiah; or, the Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in the New Testament Scriptures, by a Lady by Anonymous