One of the Jesuits said, (first making the sign of the cross upon his breast)
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He never misses a degree; Obedient to her eye, He comes just so far toward the town, Just so far goes away.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

We are never likely seven years together without some such new prophets that have several inspirations, some to convert the Jews, some fast forty days, go with Daniel to the lion's den; some foretell strange things, some for one thing, some for another.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Jo , Scotticism for a man or lover.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I shall take care not to polish Emile’s judgment so far as to transform it, and when he has acquired discernment enough to feel and compare the varied tastes of men, I shall lead him to fix his own taste upon simpler matters.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And his ruin was now hastened, not so much by the enmity of those that were his accusers, as by his gross, and impudent, and wicked contrivances, and by his ill-will to his father and his brethren; while he had filled their house with disturbance, and caused them to murder one another; and was neither fair in his hatred, nor kind in his friendship, but just so far as served his own turn.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

JOSEPH S. FOWLER was born near Steubenville, Ohio.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

2. In types DX, LX, LXR, LXRV, PHC, XC, XX, and XXV, there are no spacers between adjoining jars, and the jars simply fit tight in the case.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

By Rollin H. Baker and James S. Findley.
— from Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska by James W. Bee

Johannes started for the main shrouds, and Steve saw the captain’s beard, all covered with moisture from the mist, twitch as if he were laughing.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

"Brer Wolf jaw sorter fall w'en he year dis, en he 'low:— [247] "'Eh-eh, Brer Fox!
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Those illustrious ladies soon made their appearance—Isabella's heart fluttering with a kind of joyful suspense, for she full well divined at least one topic that had been discussed during the private interview of her father and her lover.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds