But sith there were few of them coined, and those onelie at the commandement of kings, yearelie to bestow where their maiesties thought good in lieu of new yeares gifts
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

And so, in like manner, God is looking out now for kings to fill thrones in His Son's eternal kingdom, and to sit at His right hand and His left; and He sends His ministers to those whom He hath from eternity chosen.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

At times she finds an owl dreaming on the edge of a wood, and gazes long into its strange, deep, contemplative, satisfying eyes, and recollects the boys say an owl knows whether a hunter's gun is loaded or not.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

We are so accustomed to seeing the results of this law that we give it little or no thought.
— from What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

The close traffic alliances between the Boston and Albany and the New York Central, which preceded the actual leasing of the one road by the other, gave it little or no chance for through freight between New England and the West.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford

"I don't know whether the gate is locked or not," he said.
— from The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

He who can show the world in its first naked glory, with the hues of fancy spread over it, or in its high and palmy state, with the gravity of history stamped on the proud monuments of vanished empire,—who, by his 'so potent art,' can recall time past, transport us to distant places, and join the regions of imagination (a new conquest) to those of reality,—who shows us not only what Nature is, but what she has been, and is capable of,—he who does this, and does it with simplicity, with truth, and grandeur, is lord of Nature and her powers; and his mind is universal, and his art the master-art!
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

The nearest approach of that Alleghany range, of which the Blue Ridge was the first parallel, to the great interior lakes of North America, is at Chautauqua.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, June 1884, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

The hurricane must have blown the mass of trees and vegetation away and we can get into Lake Okeechobee now!”
— from The Motor Boys in Strange Waters; or, Lost in a Floating Forest by Clarence Young