‘He goes in rayther raw, Sammy,’ said Mr. Weller metaphorically, ‘and he’ll come out, done so ex-ceedin’ brown, that his most formiliar friends won’t know him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The lays of the Minnesingers were revived—the true German spirit was cultivated, and the romantic German imagination responded readily, so that during the dark period of the French invasion, the national feeling was preserved pure and untouched by means of these stirring and patriotic songs of the past.
— from The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis

The entertainment was given in right royal style, the mayor and his brother aldermen riding out in state to meet his Highness, who [pg 348] exercised the privilege of his new position by knighting the chief magistrate of the city on his departure.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

"I am glad it rains," Rosalind said, as she gave the fire one of her vigorous stirrings; "I am glad it rains: I don't think we should have realised how lovely it is here if we were not shut in from time to time.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

I'd like to go and get into riding rig, sir."
— from Lanier of the Cavalry; or, A Week's Arrest by Charles King

Horace Greeley gave it respectful recognition, so did N.P. Willis and Gen. Morris in the Home Journal .
— from Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

X. Of plants growing in rough, rocky, sandy and sunny places.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

That's a good idea,” replied Reddy, starting forward as if he were going to walk right up to the chicken.
— from The Adventures of Old Man Coyote by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Syde bin Habib reports a peculiar breed of goats in Rua, remarkably short in the legs, so much so, that they cannot travel far; they give much milk, and become very fat, but the meat is indifferent.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone