The arches under the circus were a favorite location for prostitutes; ladies of easy virtue were ardent frequenters of the games of the circus and were always ready at hand to satisfy the inclinations which the spectacles aroused.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

He is free from personal liability on elementary principles.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He nor | heaps his | brooded | stores, Nor the | whole pro | -fusely | pours; Lord of | every | regal | art, Liberal | hand and | open | heart.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

They were, in fact, tramping down a long, straight, poplar-lined Flemish highway, with a misty vista of flat ploughed land on either side.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

Most of the Lakerimmers went in for pure love of excitement; but when Heady said that it was especially good as an indoor winter exercise to keep men in trim for football and baseball, Tug and Punk immediately went at it with great enthusiasm.
— from The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes

And whereas his right leal and trust-worthy cousin, George Colwan, of Dalcastle and Balgrennan, hath suffered great losses, and undergone much hardship, on behalf of his Majesty's rights and titles; he therefore, for himself, and as prince and steward of Scotland, and by the consent of his right trusty cousins and councillors hereby grants to the said George Colwan, his heirs and assignees whatsomever, heritably and irrevocably, all and haill the lands and others underwritten: To wit, All and haill, the five merk land of Kipplerig; the five pound land of Easter Knockward, with all the towers, fortalices, manor-places, houses, biggings, yards, orchards, tofts, crofts, mills, woods, fishings, mosses, muirs, meadows, commonties, pasturages, coals, coal-heughs, tennants, tenantries, services of free tenants, annexes, connexes, dependencies, parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the same whatsomever; to be peaceably brooked, joysed, set, used, and disposed of by him and his aboves, as specified, heritably and irrevocably, in all time coming:
— from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

And also some among them wanted not for parts, learning, or estate; though then as of old, not many wise, or noble, &c, were called; or, at least, received the heavenly call, because of the cross that attended page 31 p. 31
— from A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn

The first public law of Europe enjoining it was the work of the Emperor Frederick II.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

Moulure , f. (popular), lump of excrement , or “quaker.”
— 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

Roll out 1/8 inch thick on floured board; divide into four parts; lay on each part an apple which has been washed, pared, cored and sliced; put one teaspoon sugar with 1/4 teaspoon butter on each; wet edges of dough with cold water and fold around apple, pressing tightly together.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company