Here he ordered them to nail up the Guns in the little Prize, to take out all the small Arms and Powder, and to go every Man of them on Board the second Prize; when this was done, he ordered that more of the Prisoners should be removed out of the great Prize, into the little one, by which he secured himself from any Attempt which might be feared from their Numbers; for those on Board of him were fast in Irons, and those in the little Prize had neither Arms nor Ammunition.
— 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

This was bad enough for them; but still worse was it for me, who did not mean to be a sailor for life; having intended only to be gone eighteen months or two years.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

tout' auto to zêtoumenon ouk eirêkasin, alla to gignomenon eipontes monon oiontai tên aitian apodedôkenai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Luckily to our help came Parafianowicz, bringing from Horbatowicze two hundred of the Mickiewiczes, who are a numerous and a valiant family of gentry, every man of them, and nourish an immemorial hatred of the Soplicas.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It connects individuals who might never otherwise be known to one another, and gives every man of the trade a direction where to find every other man of it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And so in truth it befell; for a [pg 236] few days after, the beloved of God, Ethelburg, mother of that community, was delivered out of the prison of the flesh; and her life is proved to have been such that no one who knew her ought to doubt that an entrance into the heavenly country was open to her, when she departed from this life.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The Egyptian Dragon, of which the crocodile is the basis, at an early period entered into christian symbolism, and gradually effaced most of the pagan monsters.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The commotion set up in the centres does not stop there, but discharges itself, if at all strong, through the efferent nerves into muscles and glands, exciting movements of the limbs and viscera, or acts of secretion, which vary with the animal, and with the irritant applied.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Precious stones, upon which a word may be said here, no doubt at first were prized for their beauty alone, and then imagination gradually endowed many of them with fictitious properties and virtues, though doubtless the supposed attributes of some and the value and beauty of others have kept many precious stones in favour until the present day.
— from The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb

The Ring Doves, whereof there are great numbers in Gilolo , eat many of those Cloves which grow Old upon the Tree, then flying they purge in the Air with the Motion, and from their Excrements dropping on the Ground Clove Trees grow up.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

I shall go light on real work, just in order that I may have my eyes and brains where they will do the most good every minute of the time."
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Our tears on tremble, hearts Big with a benediction, wait the word Shall circulate through the city in a trice, Set every window flaring, give each man O' the mob his torch to wave for gratitude.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Nor have I ever thought that your feeling about your name being a heritage that you had to guard jealously and piously was otherwise than just——' 'Five centuries, Vicar—for five centuries the Kings of Kingscourt, whether knights or commoners, have been gentlemen—gentlemen every man of them; and this is the end!'
— from The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black

[203] CHAPTER XV PREPARATIONS FOR THE HOUSEWARMING The trip to the Metropolitan Museum gave every member of the party a new set of words for her vocabulary.
— from Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Rewritten and arranged with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day.
— from A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. by James B. (James Bartram) Nicholson

He has read German exclusively most of the time, and knows as well as I do that it is not possible to work at home.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The footman from the Hall, lounging in the booking-office, the coachman on his box, each had his knot of gossipers, eager to gather every morsel of the great news that had stirred Wonston to its depths.
— from Mrs. Severn: A Novel, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mary Elizabeth Carter