We jogged a good deal riding over this debris.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

Another MS., or rather a compound of ms. and printed leaves, of yet considerably more importance, in 3 folio volumes, is entitled Le Moreri des Normans, par Joseph Andrié Guiat de Rouen: on the reverse of the title, we read, " Supplément au Dictionnaire de Moreri pour ce qui concerne la province de Normandie, et ses illustres ."
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

In the mean time, negotiations had been set on foot for the release from captivity of Guy king of Jerusalem, and Gerard de Riderfort, the Grand Master of the Temple.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

Then, rather in astonishment at myself for patronising geraniums, I bought [Pg 181] a hundred cuttings of Henry Jacoby, a good dark red, for six shillings.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Last of all followed the heir to the person sending the present, being his youngest son, if he had any, very richly attired after their fashion, with many jewels at gold, diamonds, rubies, and other precious stones, on their, arms and round their waists, and attended by a number of men and women.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

[1131] “Although we know a priori in synthetic judgments a great deal regarding space in general and the figures which productive imagination describes in it, and can obtain such judgments without actually requiring any experience; yet even this knowledge would be nothing but a playing with a mere figment of the brain, were it not that space has to be regarded as a condition of the appearances which constitute the material for outer experience....”
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith