The clock of St John’s struck four, and Sybil became anxious; the clock of St John’s struck five, and Sybil became disquieted; restless and perturbed, she was walking up and down the chamber, her books long since thrown aside, when the clock of St John’s struck six.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They whom necessity, or covetousnesse keepeth attent on their trades, and labour; and they, on the other side, whom superfluity, or sloth carrieth after their sensuall pleasures, (which two sorts of men take up the greatest part of Man-kind,) being diverted from the deep meditation, which the learning of truth, not onely in the matter of Naturall Justice, but also of all other Sciences necessarily requireth, receive the Notions of their duty, chiefly from Divines in the Pulpit, and partly from such of their Neighbours, or familiar acquaintance, as having the Faculty of discoursing readily, and plausibly, seem wiser and better learned in cases of Law, and Conscience, than themselves.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A-saken , v. to deny, renounce; asoke , pt. s. , S.—AS. of-sacan (Schmid).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

In the three-year instance, it so fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the last time distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the whale’s eye, which I had observed there three years previous.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The outlining and the padding of the different rounded and pointed scallops, as well as of other figures that occur in white embroidery, are illustrated in figs.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

They have no objection to system or terminology, provided it be the method and the nomenclature to which they have been familiarized in the writings of Locke, Hume, Hartley, Condillac, or perhaps Dr. Reid, and Professor Stewart.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dr. R. A. Prior says: "From the Flemish kroes or kruys berie , Swed. krusbär , a word that bears the two meanings of 'cross-' and 'frizzle-berry,' but was given to this fruit with the first meaning, in reference to its triple spine, which not unfrequently presents the form of a cross.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

Table 7—Daily Results at Pumping Station.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation. by American Society of Civil Engineers

After having made my apparatus, I conducted my experiments [7] rather quickly, it is true, but I intended later on to go over them systematically and deliberately, make many more experiments, write down results, and prepare some account of them for publication.
— from Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens) Maxim

Her Majesty shut herself up with me in a closet in the entresol, looking into the garden of the Tuileries, and we packed all the diamonds, rubies, and pearls she possessed in a small chest.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

"Le heros de la pièce est d'une sagesse qui a donné lieu à des railleries assez plaisantes," says Bayle; though the instance usually cited—a box on the ear, which he gives Chariclea, when she approaches 119 him in her beggar's dress, under the walls of Memphis, and attempts to throw herself into his arms, is scarcely a fair one, as he does not at the time recognize his beloved under her unbecoming disguise.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various