Jigger , a door; “dub the JIGGER ,” shut the door.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

[Pg 453] But social forces are just as distinctly discernible as chemical forces.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was no longer just a dull day, it was deepest night.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

[171] John Atwod, draper, dwelling in the parish of St. Michael upon Cornehill, directly against the church, having a proper woman to his wife, such an one as seemed the holiest among a thousand, had also a lusty chantry priest, of the said parish church, repairing to his house; with the which priest the said Atwod would sometimes after supper play a game at tables for a pint of ale: it chanced on a time, having haste of work, and his game proving long, he left his wife to play it out, and went down to his shop, but returning to fetch a pressing iron, he found such play to his misliking, that he forced the priest to jump out at a window over the penthouse into the street, and so to run to his lodging in the churchyard.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In silence Jesse and David drove along the road until they came to that place where Jesse had once before appealed to God and had frightened his grandson.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Just as desperately did she try to unstick her wings.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Jean-Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He began to wonder if he should know when Aaron, or Clemency and James, actually did drive into the yard, if he should be quick enough.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Just a dash, dear, and if you're afraid of getting too much in, don't touch it.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Macdonald, E. J. J. A., Duc de Tarente .
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

"Briefly, the charge against you is that you did wilfully and feloniously seize in this harbour a steamer called the Arrow , belonging to Jacob Rossenbaum of Johore, and did detain and use the same with criminal intent.
— from Captain Calamity Second Edition by Rolf Bennett

I, Dmitri Vladimirovich, Prince, Russian Lieut.-General, 249 , 250 , 276 , 318 , 337 -340 Gomès, Freyre, Portuguese General in French service, 116 Gonsherevo, 307 Gorbunovo, 131 , 146 , 147 , 148 Gorchakov, Alexei, Prince, Russian Lieut.-General, 57 , 201 , 202 , 203 Gorki, 198 , 200 , 202 , 216 Gorodnia, 279 , 281 , 282 Gorodeczna, 164 -168, 169 , 185 , 289 Gouvion, St. Cyr, Laurent, Comte, Marshal of France, 36 , 50 , 114 , 176 , 177 , 178 , 179 -182, 185 , 260 , 286 , 287 , 295 -304 Grant, U.S. General, example, cited, 245 Grandjean, Charles Louis Dieudonné, Baron, French Général de Division, 89 , 171 , 172 , 294 , 295 , 387 Grawert, Prussian General, 171 , 172 , 293 , 294 Gridnevo, 197 , 201 Grodno, 59 , 62 , 64 , 69 , 78 , 80 , 81 , 82 Grouchy, Emmanuel, Marquis de, French Général de Division, 27 , 78 , 90 , 92 , 100 , 126 , 127 , 148 , 205 , 207 , 215 , 345 Gudin, Charles Etienne César, Comte, French Général de Division, 38 , 78 , 122 , 134 , 140 , 149 , 150 , 152 Guilleminot, Baron, French Général de Brigade, 276 , 278 , 318 Guyon, French Général de Brigade, 123 , 189 Gzhatsk, 194 , 196 , 197 , 200 , 201 , 252 , 259 , 269 , 284 , 314 H Hamen, Russian Major-General, 176 , 177 , 182 , 305 Hardenberg, Baron, Prussian Prime Minister, 297 Harpe, Russian Major-General, 328 Haxo, French Général de Division, 70 , 71 Helfreich, Russian Major-General, 175 , 177 , 178 Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince Emil of, 115 Hesse-Homburg, Prince of, Austrian Major-General, 165 , 166 Heudelet, French Général de Division, 261 , 388 Hogendorp, Dirk van, Dutch Lieut.-General, 296 Hohenlohe, Prince, Württemberg Colonel, 80 Horodetz, 163 Huard, French Général de Brigade, 103 , 104 Hügel, Württemberg Brigadier-General, 145 Hunerbein, Prussian Major-General, 294 , 295 I Iachvil, Lev Mikhailovich, Prince, Russian Major-General, 175 , 178 , 299 , 300 , 303 , 346 , 366 Ielnia, 130 , 269 , 273 , 315 , 320 , 325 Ignatiev, Russian Major-General, 93 Igumen, 61 , 90 , 91 , 349 Illuxt, 295 Ilovaïski IV, Cossack General, 315 Ilovaïski V, Cossack Major-General, 65 Ilovaïski IX, Cossack Colonel, 284 , 306 Inkovo, 121 , 122 Insterburg, 61 J Jakobstädt, 61 , 173 Jakubovo, 173 , 174 Jassy, 289 Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 18 , 63 , 64 , 69 , 77 , 78 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 84 , 87 , 88 , 91 Jomini, French Général de Brigade (Swiss), 116 , 184 , 255 , 308 , 334 , 357 Junot, Andoche, Duc d'Abrantes, French Général de Division, 116 , 126 , 139 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 152 , 155 , 223 , 259 , 263 , 270 , 281 , 284 , 309 , 310 , 324 , 325 , 332 , 333 , 334 , 335 , 354 , 364 Jurovo, 333 K Kaisarov, 250 Kakhovski, Russian Major-General, 173 , 178 Kalisch, 15 , 16 Kaluga, 117 , 118 , 227 , 237 , 238 , 254 , 255 , 269 , 307 Kamenetz-Podolski, 289 Kamenski, Sergei Mikhailovich, Russian Lieut.-General, 161 , 164 , 165 Kapsevich, Russian Major-General, 128 Karpenko, Russian Colonel, 207 Karpov, Russian Major-General (Cossacks)
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord

Many admirable varieties, like Jacqueminot, Anne de Diesbach, Alfred Colomb, Madame Plantier, and all the climbers, do so well on their own roots that it is foolish to take the risk of budded plants, the worse side of which is a tendency to decay at the point of juncture.
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright

They say the Lion and the Ladies keep The Court where Johnson jested and drank deep; Now Minor Poets label new Cigars And sell their Reputations passing cheap.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin

But, notoriously, Luther was accustomed to use this word in rather unusual connections, as he does for instance when speaking of the wife of the “ theologus coniugatus ” Johann Agricola (“ Dominus det, ut uteri onus feliciter exponat.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

And Captain Jehosophat answered: "Drums, drums, "The enemy comes!"
— from Seven O'Clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson