their heirs, executors, and assigns, in their actual possession now being, by virtue of an indenture of bargain and sale for a year to them the said John Dixon, and James Turner, Esqrs.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

So up and to my office, where we sat, and among other things I had a fray with Sir J. Minnes in defence of my Will in a business where the old coxcomb would have put a foot upon him, which was only in Jack Davis and in him a downright piece of knavery in procuring a double ticket and getting the wrong one paid as well as the second was to the true party.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He had been attendant on mighty Hector; in Hector's train he waged battle, renowned alike for bugle and spear: after victorious Achilles robbed him of life the valiant hero had joined Dardanian Aeneas' company, and followed no meaner leader.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Although Clement justly suffered punishment, the end of this bloodthirsty and bigoted tyrant may be justly deemed a retribution dealt by the hand of an offended Providence; so truly does the Poet say:— “neque enim lex æquior ulla Quam necis artifices arte perire suâ.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Ahab and Jezebel danced at his boots and made him look ridiculous.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I'd have come through and taken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at him his jaw dropped, and I knew that he was gone.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

In fact for each of its judgements of taste it imputes this to every one, without the persons that judge disputing as to the possibility of such a claim; although in particular cases they cannot agree as to the correct application of this faculty.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

By the town Gioan dal Farax is meant San Juan de Aznalfarache (from Moorish Hisn al-Faradj ).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

James Drake , an English political and medical writer, died.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Justus Jonas died; a learned coadjutor of Luther and the other reformers, and author of a Defence of the Marriage of the Priests , and other works.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

John Denny at once told me he had signed on as cook, but added quaintly: "I have never cooked for gentles."
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

Johnny danced about the room, holding before her eyes the bone of contention, then drawing it away again in the most provoking manner.
— from Dotty Dimple at Play by Sophie May

C4-370 Jack Dougherty, an employee working on the fifth floor, testified that he took the west elevator to the first floor after hearing a noise which sounded like a backfire.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Jack drew a deep breath, and a fiercely vindictive look flashed from the dark eyes which glared at Bart.
— from Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn

Perhaps you are." "Jacob died and left me a few dollars, with which I came out West.
— from Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to Success by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Astræ`a , the daughter of Zeus and Themis, the goddess of justice; dwelt among men during the Golden Age, but left the earth on its decline, and her sister Pudicitia along with her, the withdrawal explained to mean the vanishing of the ideal from the life of man on the earth; now placed among the stars under the name of Virgo.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

But few indeed are left who can describe or define the sensation of commingled joy, dread and uncertainty that fills the heart of the lonely homesteader on an occasion like this.
— from The Land of Lure: A Story of the Columbia River Basin by Elliott Smith