To tip all nine; to knock down all the nine pins at once, at the game of bows or skittles: tipping, at these gaines, is slightly touching the tops of the pins with the bowl.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"Nature doeth everything for her own gain and profit, can do nothing as a free favour, but hopeth to attain something as good or better, or some praise or favour for her benefits; and she loveth that her own deeds and gifts should be highly valued; but Grace seeketh nothing temporal, nor requireth any other gift of reward than God alone; neither longeth she for more of temporal necessities than such as may suffice for the attaining of eternal life.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

of Mysia, ii. 332 . ——, Gulf of ( Bay of Saros ), i. 42 , 140 , 187 , 496 , 516 -518. ——, r. of Bœotia ( Mauroneri ) ii. 101 . ——, r. of Thrace, i. 517 . ——, r. of Thessaly, ii. 129 . ——, r. of Pamphylia ( Menavyat-su ), iii. 50 . ——, r. of Cappadocia ( Karasu ), ii. 282 , 283 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Horses are the cheapest thing in California; the very best not being worth more than ten dollars apiece, and very good ones being often sold for three, and four.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I've been negotiating with this gentleman on behalf of Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, and one way and another I've been in and out and about his premises a deal.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

[Ursule Mirouet.] SOULAS (Amedee-Sylvain-Jacques de), born in 1809, a gentleman of Besancon, of Spanish origin (the name was written Souleyas, when Franche-Comte belonged to Spain), succeeded in shining brightly in the capital of Doubs on an income of four thousand francs, which allowed him to employ the services of "Babylas, the tiger."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Each deity represented the Grecian ideal,--of majesty or grace or beauty or strength or virtue or wisdom or madness or folly.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

A. S. ge-frith-ian , id. FREIT, FREET, FRET, s. A superstitious notion, with respect to any thing as a good or bad omen, S. Wyntown.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

“There’s just the spot we want;” and, raising his glass, he stopped to examine a group of blocks of stone some fifty yards from the edge of the snowfield, which here sent down a few sharp points, giving it the appearance at a distance of a huge, vandyked piece of white lace.
— from Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills by George Manville Fenn

To raise a large sum of money on the San Francisco real estate—the common property of his mother and himself—and erect a great office building of steel and reinforced concrete, would add enormously to his own and his mother's incomes, but on the other hand it would stand in the midst of acres of wooden buildings and shanties, and the risk of a great fire—whose momentum would sweep through any fireproof building—was one forgotten neither by the insurance agents nor the chief of the fire department, who was said to keep thousands of tons of dynamite in the city with which to segregate the always expected conflagration.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Here and there a solitary pagoda rises above the vast sea of human dwellings, which are generally of but one, seldom two stories in height, and built very much alike; for there is the same monotony in the Chinese houses as in the figures and costumes of the Chinese themselves.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

This time effectively; for, worn by actual fatigue or soothed by the delicious coolness of the cave, they gradually, one by one, succumbed to real slumber.
— from The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte

“If,” she says, “a woman has friends and a small place in the world—and who has not in these days?—she must golf or ‘bike’ or skate a bit, of a morning; then she is apt to lunch out, or have a friend or two in, to that meal.
— from Worldly Ways & Byways by Eliot Gregory