In short, Jones and his Consort go on Board of Captain Anstis , on Pretence of a Visit, and there consulting with their Brethren, they find a Majority for leaving of Roberts , and so came to a Resolution to bid a soft Farewel, as they call it, that Night, and to throw over-board whosoever should stick out; but they proved to be unanimous, and effected their Design as above-mentioned.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Listen to these few lines of Regnard, and see whether something like the fleeting image of a DOLL does not cross the field of your imagination: ...
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

The outfit of hand tools for the garden should include a spade, a spading fork, a cut-steel rake, a 10-foot measuring pole, a line for laying off rows, a standard hoe, a narrow hoe, dibbles, a trowel, an assortment of hand weeders, a watering can, a wheelbarrow, and if the work is to be done largely by hand the outfit should also include some form of wheel hoe, of which there are a number on the market.
— from The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous

There was a fierce lunging of rifles, a succession of awful groans, and the Boers were gone, all swept to the ground, save a few who were now racing away for their lives.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

So a small sore augmentyth, styll preuely By lytell and lytell for lacke of remedy A small diseas whiche is ynoughe durable
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

Only when hotly pursued does it quit the vicinity of its favourite lake or river, and seek safety by flying to any considerable distance, and it always returns to its usual haunts as soon as the cause of its alarm has disappeared.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

From this province of Chumbo the road continues for fourteen leagues over rugged and sometimes difficult ground, until a river is reached where there are always natives with balsas who ferry travellers across.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

I could see that it would not be many years, if they were left alone, before the green grass would be covered, and the old apple-trees would grow mossy and die for lack of room and sunlight in the midst of the young woods.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

By the light of recent memoirs, especially those of Metternich himself, we seem forced to the conclusion that in all the offers after Leipsic there was, if anything, far less of reality and sincerity than in those between the armistice of Poischwitz and the battle.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

For parents these girls had fathers who worked twelve hours a day in the steel mills and came home at night half dead from lack of rest and sleep; and mothers who toiled equally long hours in the kitchen or over the washtub and were too weary to know or care what the girls did after school.
— from What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr