I immediately agreed to go with one Capt. John Hamer, for seven guineas, the passage to London, on board a ship called the Andromache; and on the 24th and 25th I had free dances, as they are called, with some of my countrymen, previous to my setting off; after which I took leave of all my friends, and on the 26th I embarked for London, exceedingly glad to see myself once more on board of a ship; and still more so, in steering the course I had long wished for.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

It’s the finest licker ever got to this city!
— from The Mesa Trail by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

With a vast wave of determined confidence inundating his very being, Hicks started for the bar; after those first, peculiar, creeping steps, he had just started his gallop, when he heard Tug Cardiff's basso , magnified by a megaphone, roared: "All together, fellows— let 'er go —" Then, just as Hicks dug his spikes into the earth, in that short, mad sprint that gives the jumper his spring, just as he reached the take-off, a perfect explosion of noise startled him, and he caught a sound that frightened him, tensed as he was: "Woof! Woof!
— from T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice

He had a number of scholars around him, some of whom he provided for liberally, even giving them landed estates, while others earned at least a livelihood as officers in his army.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

It was often asserted that the financier lent, even gave, the humorist large sums, and pointed out opportunities for speculation.
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

-workers: The beloved Guardian has instructed me to inquire of your Assembly what the situation is surrounding the translation and publication of Bahá’í literature into the following languages: Erso Gaelic These are not languages of the Ten Year Crusade, but languages which have been translated prior to the opening of the Ten Year Crusade.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

In thus going forth with the full intention of restoring the little model to her position in the household, her pride fought against her pride, and her woman's sense of ownership in the man whom she had married wrestled with the acquired sentiments of freedom, liberality, equality, good taste.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy