Item, I give unto Robert Penniston, Son of Sir Thomas Penniston, and younger Brother to Sir Farmalis Penniston of Cornhill, in the said County of Oxon the Sum of Three hundred Pounds .
— from The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle

Item , I give unto Robert Penniston , Son of Sir Thomas Penniston , and younger Brother to Sir Farmalis Penniston of Cornhill , in the said County of Oxon the Summ of Three hundred Pounds.
— from The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle

Red in Pork, and Beef, Salted, to Stew to Choose Fresh, to Stew Leg of, to Carve Loin of, to Carve Slices of, to Dress Spare Rib of, to Carve / to Roast Various Joints of, Described Porridge, Scotch Portable Soup Porter, to Brew Possession, Giving up, Refused Postage Stamp, Where to Place on Envelope Postal Districts in London Potash and Sulphur Powders Sulphate of Potassa, Acetate of Potato Balls Ragoût Colcanon Potato, Cheesecakes Fritters Pie Pudding Puffs Scones Snow Potatoes Boiled in Bread for Children Cold, to Dress Escalloped Fried in Slices Fried Whole Fried with Fish Mashed with Onions / with Spinach and Cabbage New, when Best Fit for Eating to Peel to Preserve Roasted under Meat to Steam Pot-au-Feu, to Prepare Pot-Herbs for Drying, When in Season ( 1 )-( 2 ) Potichomanie, Art of Potted Beef
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

( He goes up R. , passing Sir J. haughtily )
— from Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts by Alfred Sutro

About six years ago, I confess that I began to wax a little weary of my wandering life: my child, in growing up, required playmates; shall I own that I did not like him to find them among the children of my own comrades?
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The light is produced by throwing a jet of hydrogen or a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases upon recently prepared spongy platinum, when the metal instantly becomes red-hot, and then sets fire to the gas.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

We had been becalmed all the morning, but before noon the seabreeze set in from the South-South-East, and we got underweigh, ran past South-west Cape, and anchored in 22 fathoms mud, off a large island afterwards named in honour of Lieutenant Yule.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray