I was expelled from Dublin by a persecution occasioned, I must confess, by my own imprudence.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Turning it upward as he spoke, it was his delight to tell of cruises against the French and battles with his own shipmates, when he and an antagonist used to be seated astride of a sailor's chest, each fastened down by a spike-nail through his trousers, and there to fight it out.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Take of Colocynthis, Agarick, Germander, white Horehound, Stœchas, of each ten drams, Opopanax, Sagapen, Parsley seeds, round Birthwort roots, white Pepper of each five drams, Spikenard, Cinnamon, Myrrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saffron, of each four drams, bruise the Gums in a mortar, sift the rest, and with three pounds of clarified honey, three ounces and five drams, make it into an electuary according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

An entrance fee demanded by the old prisoners of one just committed to gaol.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Come on, then, make no excuses for delay, but let us see whether you can string the bow or no.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

On the 28th our lines were extended from Deep Bottom to New Market Road, but in getting this position were attacked by the enemy in heavy force.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[Pg 358] imagine that they escape from decadence by opposing it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Each following day Became the next day's master, till the last Made former wonders its.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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— from An Alphabetical List of Books Contained in Bohn's Libraries (1892) by George Bell & Sons

The canal was not more than eight feet deep, but the bottom was very muddy, and the boys had to feel about in the mud with their feet for the lost articles.
— from Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

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— from The Comic Latin Grammar: A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Percival Leigh

The surplus labour of the latter is an empiric fact, demonstrable by experience, which needs no deductive proof.
— from Karl Marx by Achille Loria

[180] s'il estoit estendu est long enuiron d'vne aulne, mais il le tient entortillé et sinueux en forme de serpent.—Le Diable, soit qu'il ayt la forme d'homme, ou qu'il soit en forme de Bouc, a tousiours vn membre de mulet, ayant choisy en imitation celuy de cet animal comme le mieux pourueu.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

The four beasts and four-and-twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

Akira is trying to tell me something about the hyaku-hachino-mukaebi, the Hundred and Eight Fires, to be lighted to-morrow evening, which bear some figurative relation unto the Hundred and Eight Foolish Desires; but I cannot hear him for the clatter of the geta and the komageta, the wooden clogs and wooden sandals of the worshippers ascending to the shrine of Yakushi-Nyorai.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

" The same gentleman informs us that Mohammed having drank to excess fell drunk by the roadside, and in that condition was killed by pigs.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll