Rejoice in my good luck: congratulate me on my supreme happiness, and believe me, dear cynic and misanthrope, yours, in the best of health and spirits, GINEVRA LAURA DE HAMAL, née FANSHAWE.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

But in that realm of Syria is the kingdom of Judea and many other provinces, as Palestine, Galilee, Little Cilicia, and many other.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Here, Mole, fry me some slices of ham, like the good little chap you are.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Ἡγεμονεύω, ( ἡγεμών ) f. εύσω, to be a guide, leader, chief; in N.T., to hold the office of a Roman provincial governor, Lu. 2.2; 3.1.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Among those indifferent persons may be reckoned nowadays the majority of German Protestants of the middle classes, especially in the great laborious centres of trade and commerce; also the majority of laborious scholars, and the entire University personnel (with the exception of the theologians, whose existence and possibility there always gives psychologists new and more subtle puzzles to solve).
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

About 11 o’clock, Commissioner Pett and I walked to Chyrurgeon’s Hall (we being all invited thither, and promised to dine there); where we were led into the Theatre; and by and by comes the reader, Dr. Tearne, with the Master and Company, in a very handsome manner: and all being settled, he begun his lecture, this being the second upon the kidneys, ureters, &c., which was very fine; and his discourse being ended, we walked into the Hall, and there being great store of company, we had a fine dinner and good learned company, many Doctors of Phisique, and we used with extraordinary great respect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But their importance for their descendants lies mainly in the fact that they handed on their magic, and this made the Kula possible for the following generations” (loc. cit., p. 100).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

setrægl = sethrægl settan (±) to make to sit , ‘ set ’ (‘ i-set ’), lay, put, deposit, place, fix , Æ, B, Bl, Bo, Gen, LL ; CP: set or put down , El, LL ; Æ: (±) appoint, assign, institute, prepare, ordain, make, found, build , Æ, AO, Bl, BH, Ps : sow, plant ,
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions, I never heard one pass her lips; but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It's also to be taken inwardly by drops, which effectually takes off and eradicates the very cause; for it potently relieves, comforts and strengthens the brain, creates and corroborates a stomach, removes sickness from it, helps digestion, cleanses the blood; and in a word, is the greatest cephalic, stomatic, hepatic, and powerful aromatic possible; therefore is extreme necessary for all Gentlemen, Ladies, &c., always to be carried in their pockets.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

24 477 Patin (Guy) Lettres Choises 3 Tom.
— from The Library of William Congreve by William Congreve

"This spring," said Tom, "the Gaylord Lumber Company made Austen junior counsel.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

What thing of importance that only a great lawyer could do, did not Follett do?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

@Uzbekistan, Geography Location: Central Asia, bordering the Aral Sea, between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan Map references: Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States - Central Asian States, Standard Time Zones of the World Area: total area: 447,400 sq km land area: 425,400 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than California Land boundaries: total 6,221 km, Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km Coastline: 0 km note: Uzbekistan borders the Aral Sea (420 km) Maritime claims: none; landlocked International disputes: Russia may dispute current de facto maritime border to midpoint of Caspian Sea from shore Climate: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east Terrain: mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya and Sirdaryo Rivers; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 47% forest and woodland: 0% other: 42% Irrigated land: 41,550 sq km (1990)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

SEE Goes Lithographing Co. CORINTH, LOVIS.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

General Lord Chelmsford had given orders that Colonel Wood was to be at a certain point on the 10th, and consequently arrangements were made to carry out these instructions.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

The deer gets little credit for this eleventh- hour bravery.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

One day while working in the fields, a great longing came over him to see her: so without waiting for the hour of sunset he ran home.
— from Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodzko

George, who had finished his work, and wanted to go home to tea, walked across to the spring where Lettie sat playing with the water, getting little cupfuls to put into the kettle, watching the quick skating of the water beetles, and the large faint spots of their shadows darting on the silted mud at the bottom of the trough.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence