The more southern States furnish in greater abundance certain kinds of naval stores—tar, pitch, and turpentine.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

…” “Very sorry that I am no good at childbearing,” Kirillov answered thoughtfully; “that is, not at childbearing, but at doing anything for childbearing … or … no, I don’t know how to say it.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will yield unto God, and not unto man; I have read in the Scriptures of many godly and courteous keepers: may God make you one!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Pills in Greek are called, Katopotia , in Latin, Pilulæ : which signifies little balls, because they are made up in such a form, that they may be the better swallowed down, by reason of the offensiveness of their taste.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

No sooner was the mask off than Fra Alberto was incontinent recognized of all, who raised a general outcry against him, giving him the scurviest words and the soundest rating was ever given a canting knave; moreover, they cast in his face, one this kind of filth and another that, and so they baited him a great while, till the news came by chance to his brethren, whereupon half a dozen of them sallied forth and coming thither, unchained him and threw a gown over him; then, with a general 208 hue and cry behind them, they carried him off to the convent, where it is believed he died in prison, after a wretched life.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Visitors seem to regard the anemones—the "most brilliant of living flower gardens," as Charles Kingsley called them—as useful in the way of ornament, and pass their tanks without paying further heed to them.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Bluff , an excuse; also the game at cards known as euchre in America.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

he said piously, to think of the men of those times, Stephen, Hely Hutchinson and Flood and Henry Grattan and Charles Kendal Bushe, and the noblemen we have now, leaders of the Irish people at home and abroad.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

[201] Behind the ranks of gentlemen and servitors there was ample room and verge enough upon the wide heath for the multitudes who came to gape and cheer King Harry’s new wife; more than a little perplexed in many cases as to the minimum amount of enthusiasm which would be accepted as seemly.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

"Got any cigarettes, kiddo?"
— from Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Gifts poured in from the kings of England and Denmark, from the bishop’s schoolmate of Rheims, the good and cultivated King Robert of France, from the Duke of Aquitaine, who donated the treasure accumulated in St. Hilary’s abbatial at Poitiers.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Margaret went out into the garden, and carefully kept out of sight of the great windows.
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

He has been, as perhaps you know, cruising with two ancient cronies, Lord Gaynor and Colonel Kaye, in his steam-yacht Helga , along the Danish West Coast of Jutland.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

There are two ways of helping him: either he can be quite definitely shown and made to imitate, or he can be set to think about it; he is given a cardboard knife and allowed to experiment: if he fails, it may be suggested that a clean edge can only be got by some form of cutting; probably he will find out the rest of the process.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

"I expect Laura has got a cruel knock, but perhaps we can save her some extra pain.
— from Northwest! by Harold Bindloss

“I’ve got a complete kit ready,” Miss Comstock told Jane.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

“It is even so, gentlemen,” and Cobb knocked the ashes from his cigar.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller