The next morning, we made sail at slack water, with a fair wind, and got on board by eleven o'clock, when all hands were turned-to, to unload and stow away the wood, which took till night.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Christianity alone has neither crushed the soul by mere submission, like Mohammedanism; nor melted it away in the tides of infinite being, like Pantheistic faiths; but has saved the good of both, by establishing the union with God through a free act of the individual soul.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

Did the Company, when they bought goods on bonds bearing eight per cent interest, at ten and even twenty per cent discount, even ask themselves a question concerning the possibility of advantage from dealing on these terms?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It occurs in some of the woods of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, and Suffolk.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

Such chaperons as Mrs. James don't grow on blackberry bushes even in Scotland, where blackberries, if not gooseberries, are the best in the world.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

All the movements of the dance were regulated by the measures of an indecent song, at the chorus of which the circular movements of Drummond’s cudgel ceased; when one of the females faced about to him, and joined him with her voice, the gestures of both being exceedingly obscene.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

She wore a tea gown of baby blue, embroidered with pink rosebuds, and her bleached hair was done up into a billowy cluster of tiny curls which swayed with every movement of her head and which somehow accentuated the essential maturity of her foolish fat face.
— from Fresh Every Hour Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child. by John Peter Toohey

They didn’t share the Murray boys’ enthusiasm for collecting 106 frogs, but they all played a good game of base ball, even Grandma Davis.
— from Cottage on the Curve by Mary Lamers

Much lying news dispersed about this time, and also scandalous pamphlets; perhaps we may have some knavish scribbler, 347 a second Bickerstaff, or a rascal under that name for that villain, &c. It is a cheat, and he a knave that did it, &c. "Whereas, it has been industriously given out by Bickerstaff, Esq., and others, to prevent the sale of this year's almanack, that John Partridge is dead; this may inform all his loving countrymen, that, blessed be God, he is still living in health, and they are knaves who reported otherwise.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

We find Trajan acting upon this law in the year 111, when Pliny, being governor of Bithynia, brings expressly the case of the Christians before him.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies