In the first place I give to my Grandsons, Fielding Jones and Isaac Vanmeter Jones, a negro girl of the name of Margaritte, and negro boy by the name of Solomon to be equally divided between them when the arrive at the age of 21 years or without lawful issue, then and in that case my will and desire is that the survivor have the aforesaid negroes with their increase and should both die without lawful issue, then and that case my will and desire is that the aforesaid negroes and their increase go to my three children and their lawful heirs.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

And he—so this, checking into it from what the psychiatrists tell me, he went out of his way to show the gentiles that in their thinking that all the Jews are no good or money grabbers or what have you, here was a nice guy that went out of his way—and didn’t have the money—to help anybody he could.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

In everyday life, when jaranas are not going on, he is a sober man.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

And very suitable to what hath been said is that which is said of Jupiter and Neptune:— Gods of one source, of one ethereal race, Alike divine, and heaven their native place; But Jove the greater; first born of the skies, And more than men or Gods supremely wise.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

When General Jackson arrived near Gordonsville on July 19, 1862, he was at his request reënforced by Major-General A. P. Hill.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

He only meant it for a jest, and nine girls out of ten even at sixteen would have understood his languid air of grandiloquence in an instant.
— from Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This man was Jerubbaal, also named Gideon, of the tribe of Manasseh.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz