Lap , in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh , a governor; from which they say, by corruption, was derived Laputa , from Lapuntuh .
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The desire for liberty which had sprung up in the breasts of so many Cuban patriots was destined never again to be extinguished, and the history of the island from this time down to the War of Independence, in the closing decade of the century, is that of one long struggle for separation from Spain—sometimes open, more frequently secret but always continuous.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

There was music and laughter in it as well as work, and there was love in it, too, oceans of love, so why not trip and be merry and guide one's young partner safely through the difficult mazes of the dance and bring him out flushed and triumphant, to receive mother's laughing compliments?
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

His energy levels swelled and pulsed as he sucked the last delight from the cord, and contemplated the further pleasure waiting for him in that other one lying scarcely twenty raads away.
— from On the Fourth Planet by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

He said that the provost-marshal of Madison had received information that one of Lincoln's spies was in town, and had even been among our visitors, though, the captain said, he was glad that the spy had found no opportunity to reveal himself to us!
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger