At a Methodist camp-meeting, held in the Bay Side (a famous place for campmeetings) about eight miles from St. Michael’s, Master Thomas came out with a profession of religion.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Attacked without reason, the protestants have not, even by a just resistance, afforded their enemies the fatal pretext for calumny.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

How ofte falleth al theffect contraire Of surquidrye and foul presumpcioun; For caught is proud, and caught is debonaire.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

For-ȝiuen , v. to forgive, PP; foryeue , C3; forȝeuen , PP; forȝieue , S; forrȝifenn , S; foryiue , C2; uorȝiuen , S; forgifen S; forȝef , imp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity, Under th’allowance of your great aspect, Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus’ front,— CORNWALL.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man ?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

It must be noted that he did not even attempt to communicate with his father, perhaps from pride, from contempt for him, or perhaps from his cool common sense, which told him that from such a father he would get no real assistance.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Faridole , f. (prostitutes’), female companion .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

He only repeated: "Let us have patience, and wait," with a feeling of relief from possible further catechism.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

Ports and terminals: Betio Military Kiribati Military branches: no regular military forces; Police Force (carries out law enforcement functions and paramilitary duties; small police posts are on all islands)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

for Poplar Flat!" cried a voice, as a long, gaunt and seedy looking fellow swaggered through the crowd.
— from The Cave by the Beech Fork: A Story of Kentucky—1815 by Henry S. (Henry Stanislaus) Spalding

She was dressed—the young men, of course, could not tell how—in some invalid dress, so soft, so flowing, so seemly, that Cameron, who was as ignorant as a savage of all the graces of the toilette, could not sufficiently admire the perfect gracefulness of those most delicate womanly robes, which seemed somehow to belong to, and form part of, this fair, pale, fragile creature, whose whole existence seemed to be one of patience and suffering.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The clients were recruited partly from freedmen, partly from citizens of low birth, and partly from persons of the better class who had fallen upon evil days.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

Agriculture - products: cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, cassava (tapioca), yams, rubber; cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; timber; fish Industries: crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; palm oil, peanuts, cotton, rubber, wood; hides and skins, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel, small commercial ship construction and repair Industrial production growth rate: -1.6% (2006 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency