'I'm going to see about a sufficient guard for the premises.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Note 61 ( return ) [ In their offerings, it was a maxim to defraud God for the profit of the idol, not a more potent, but a more irritable, patron, (Pocock, Specimen, p. 108, 109.)]
— 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

The German language has the good fortune to possess expressions which do not allow this difference to be overlooked.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night, Georgina Simpson’s housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop game, finding the pin blindfold and thoughtreading?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Should we get a guide from this place it will Save us two days march through some of the worst road through those Mountains, crouded with fallin timber mud holes and steep hills &c. we directed all the hunters to turn out early and kill something for us to live on &c. Musquetors troublesom H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But not a glance from that proud ring Of peers who circled round the King With Douglas held communion kind, Or called the banished man to mind; No, not from those who at the chase Once held his side the honoured place, Begirt his board, and in the field Found safety underneath his shield; For he whom royal eyes disown, When was his form to courtiers known!
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

At Sunset, or immediately after the Indians have been dismissed, both gates shall be shut, and secured, and the main gate locked and continue so untill sunrise the next morning; the water-gate may be used freely by the Garrison for the purpose of passing and repassing at all times, tho from sunset, untill sunrise, it shall be the duty of the centinel, to open the gate for, and shut it after all persons passing and repassing, suffering the same never to remain unfixed long than is absolutely necessary.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Had he done so, he might have gone far toward piercing the veil of darkness which enshrouds the authorship of the work and the very age in which the composer flourished.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The old principle of dividing by the eye, and not by the ear, I have rejected; and, with it, all but one of the five rules which the old grammarians gave for the purpose.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Ah, here comes a gentleman from the Pavilion!
— from A Vision of Venus; Or, A Midsummer-Night's Nightmare by Harry Pleon

However that may be, Blackall was compelled to let Ernest go, for the purpose of shaking off his new and ferocious assailant.
— from Ernest Bracebridge: School Days by William Henry Giles Kingston

Mr. Gell is perfectly right in preferring a Turk to a Greek for this purpose; and in his general recommendation to take a Janissary on the tour: who, we may add, should be suffered to act as he pleases, since nothing is to be done by gentle means, or even by offers of money, at the places of accommodation.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

If this story be correct, which is not indeed vouched by the chronicler, but which seems to bear internal evidence of genuineness, it will go far to prove that the situation of Elizabeth during her abode at Woodstock was by no means that opprobrious captivity which it has usually been represented.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The next matter was to frame a Bill of Rights and a Constitution of government for the province.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

[169] Months before the outbreak of the conspiracy of Amboise their agents had been at work in Germany, using French gold for the purchase of arms, ammunition, and above all, men, for Germany was filled with small nobles of broken fortune, vagabond soldiers, [170] and lansquenets ready to serve wherever the pay was sure and the chance for excitement and plunder good.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Academy days went in good feeds, the popularity purchased by his freedom of purse and easy-going good fellowship, and much reading, which he always enjoyed and which, with his good memory, made him unusually well-informed.
— from Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. (Robert Sproul) Carroll

FOR GRATITUDE FOR THE PAST.
— from Evening Incense by John R. (John Ross) Macduff