Loud as the wolves, on Orcas’ stormy steep, Howl to the roarings of the Northern deep, Such is the shout, the long-applauding note, At Quin’s high plume, or Oldfield’s petticoat; Or when from court a birthday suit bestowed, Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

"Wrong, Ned my friend," Conseil answered, "because I see only ordinary parrots here."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, answered the triple purpose of floors, ceilings, and bedsteads.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The other troops then came up, Pennypacker's following Curtis, and Bell, who commanded the 3d brigade of Ames's division, following Pennypacker.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This Demokedes came from Croton, and became the associate of Polycrates in the following manner:—at Croton he lived in strife with his father, who was of a harsh temper, and when he could no longer endure him, he departed and came to Egina.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Among other things, I wrote to her: “I have more than once happened to converse with old actors, very worthy men, who showed a friendly disposition towards me; from my conversations with them I could understand that their work was controlled not so much by their own intelligence and free choice as by fashion and the mood of the public.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Such is the composition of what is called the fashionable company at Bath; where a very inconsiderable proportion of genteel people are lost in a mob of impudent plebeians, who have neither understanding nor judgment, nor the least idea of propriety and decorum; and seem to enjoy nothing so much as an opportunity of insulting their betters.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The seed enclosed in these heads is small and shining while it is fresh, very like unto fleas both for colour and bigness, but turning black when it grows old.
— 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

As far as we are concerned, however, in the present inquiry, CANT was derived from chaunt , a beggar’s whine; CHAUNTING being the recognised term amongst beggars to this day for begging orations and street whinings; and CHAUNTER , a street talker and tramp, the very term still used by strollers and patterers.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Furthermore Cabot, at Bubal eight years after Moraga, found 700 persons.
— from The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne Friend Cook

"Going to the rear where a faro game was in progress, Andy exchanged his fifteen dollars for chips and began to play.
— from The Comstock Club by C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin

The temperature of 32° C. (90° Fahr.) is, then, a limit, marking a division between the temperatures which permit and those which prevent liquefaction; it is the critical point, at which is defined the separation, for carbonic acid, between two very distinct states of matter.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

It will be seen at once that if A were a breaker the angle would be influenced in another manner, and that if C were a breaker the angle at which the boat should emerge from the group of rocks would be influenced by the stream from C also; but it is only necessary to remind the reader that all the combinations and permutations of breakers and sunk rocks need not be separately discussed,—they may be met by the experience obtained in one case of each class of circumstances.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

3: "Crest" is obviously derived from crista , a bird's comb or crest.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen

And in thinking, when we leave one method and take up another, we should try to forget entirely the first conclusion and begin on the problem as if we had never taken it up before.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

In five minutes he was in full career, and by the time that Edward returned—he had not been absent half an hour—the two Savoyards were made aware that the young gentleman had probably gone to inquire his way minutely to Dampierre, the place of retreat of the Duchesse de Chevreuse.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He finally consented and became busy at the work of marshalling the support of his friends.
— from Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers