Meantime Pip’s blue, choked face plainly looked, Do, for God’s sake!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Later on, when we came to understand the Filipinos better, this summary method of dealing with the faint-hearted [ 314 ] lost much of its initial horrifying force, and the failure of such to appeal to us for protection lost much of its strangeness.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Jurymen are also called godfathers, because they name the crime the prisoner before them has been guilty of, whether felony, petit larceny, &c. GOG.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

In us such love and reverence from afar, / That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

[Pg 172] "Once," began the leader, "we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

You'll have to use Tor to access it -- Homeland Security is bound to be scanning for people logging into p-party mail."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Fortune never failes, if she badd take place, 15 To shroude all the faire proceedings: Love and she though blynd, yet each other embrace, To favor all their servants meetings: Venture I say To sport and to play, 20 If in place all be fitting; Though she say fie Yet doth she not denie:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The king gave to the mayor one hundred pounds land by year, and to each of the other forty pounds land yearly, to them and their heirs for ever.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

"If the Barbarian wishes for peace, let him evacuate the ground which he occupies for the encampment of the Romans, and surrender his city and palace of Rei as a pledge of his sincerity."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

7 But thou, O Lord, Aid all this foolish people; let them take Example, pattern: lead them to thy light.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She wrote it about three weeks before her decease in Finsbury Place, London, April 21, 1839, at the age of twenty-four.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

@Paraguay:Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Paraguay conventional short form: Paraguay local long form: Republica del Paraguay local short form: Paraguay Data code: PA Government type: republic National capital: Asuncion Administrative divisions: 18 departments (departamentos, singular-departamento); Alto Paraguay, Alto Parana, Amambay, Asuncion, Boqueron, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Concepcion, Cordillera, Guaira, Itapua, Misiones, Neembucu, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes, San Pedro Independence: 14 May 1811 (from Spain) National holiday: Independence Days, 14-15 May (1811) Constitution: promulgated 20 June 1992
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

His father, designing him for public life, now sent him to complete his education in the house of sir Amias Paulet, the queen's ambassador in France.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

We are in perfect accord with him on this point, that false philosophy lies at the foundation of all the worst errors of the day, and that these errors can only be effectually subverted by a true and sound philosophy.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

To landowner and farmer the value of a fixed population like this, fixed and independent, and looking only for payment for what was actually done, and not for eleemosynary earnings, would be, I think, very great.
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

"What's the use of trying to be a lady," she said, suddenly, "when you have to fight poverty like this!
— from Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow