There is just a chance of being seen.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Happening to sail by the bay of Puteoli, the passengers and mariners aboard a ship of Alexandria 254 , just then arrived, clad all in white, with chaplets upon their heads, and offering incense, loaded him with praises and joyful acclamations, crying out, “By you we live, by you we sail securely, by you enjoy our liberty and our fortunes.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Or think of this; the hour midnight; place Salle de Manege; august Assembly just adjourning: 'Citizens of both sexes enter in a rush exclaiming, Vengeance: they are poisoning our Brothers;'—baking brayed-glass among their bread at Soissons!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Hop Jim along, Walk Jim along, Talk Jim along," &c. Old black Dan, as black as tar, He dam glad he was not dar.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

63-64 i.e. of the armed warriors which sprang from the dragon’s teeth sown by Jason at Colchis or by Cadmus at Thebes.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Although the tidings of peace sent by Hughes to Bussy rested only upon unofficial letters, they were too positive to justify a continuance of bloodshed.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

After bathing, the Bidan should perform the ceremony called sĕmbor sirih , which consists in the [ 341 ] ejecting of betel-leaf (mixed with other ingredients) out of her mouth on to the pit of the child’s stomach, the ingredients being pounded leaves of the bunglei , chĕkor , and jĕrangau , and chips of brazil-wood, ebony, and sugar-palm twigs ( sĕgar kabong ); to these are sometimes added small portions of the “Rough” bamboo ( buluh kasap ), of the bĕmban balu , and of the leaf-cases of the areca-palm (either upih b’lah batang or upih sarong ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Young people are just as capable of being guided and inspired in their thought about sex emotion as in their taste and ideals in literature and ethics, and just as they imperatively need to have their general taste and ideals cultivated as a preparation for mature life, so do they need to have some understanding of the marvelous place which sex emotion has in life.
— from The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett

Truth and Justice alone capable of being 'conserved.'
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

Second in command was Captain John, a cousin of Brant, and his senior in years.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

Yes, surely there she was; and the ship was sailing up with Jürgen and Clara on board.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A soiled and freckled boy, bare from the knees, whistled by the window, jangling a can of bait, his pole balanced prettily on one ragged shoulder.
— from While Caroline Was Growing by Josephine Daskam Bacon

When we went to the campus house all along the other side not a girl would accept a ticket----" "Don't you think that was just a case of boycott?" suggested Jane.
— from Jane Allen, Center by Edith Bancroft

Athalia , Mary Queen of Scots Azaria , Monmouth Azyad , Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Bibbai , L'Estrange Canaanites, Chemarim , Papists Doeg , Danby Edomites , Irish Elam , Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester Eliab , Lord Russell Eliakim , Duke of York Elishama , ?Macclesfield Elizur, Enan , unidentified Essens , nonconformists Gamaliel , unidentified Gedaliah , Edward Coleman Gibbar , ?Lord Clifford Harim , ?Lord Wharton Helon , Bedford * Hushai , Shaftesbury Jehosaphat , Henry VII Jeptha , see Settle, p. 21 Jerusha , Anne, Countess of Buccleuch Joash , Charles I Jocoliah , Lucy Walters * Jotham , ?Halifax Libni , Oates Muppim , ?Lauderdale Nashai , Essex Pagiel , unidentified Pharisee , high churchman Rehoboam , unidentified * Shimei , Dryden Zabed , Cromwell Zattue , unidentified ix REFERENCES Biblical parallels and parallels with Absalom and Achitophel are omitted.
— from Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Elkanah Settle

In my old Granny's days, long, long—oh, so long ago, Carland was just a collection of bogs.
— from Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Edmund Dulac

He charged one Elijah J. Johnson, a commissioner of Baltimore Co., with having deprived him of the fruits of his labor.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still