From the circumstance of our commander himself being present, and that his Christian name was Juan, and it happening to be the feast of St. John, we gave this small island the name of San Juan de Ulua.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Leaning out at the window he saw Joe Welling going along the street with the two Kings.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

So the king went away, in hopes that Jacob would grant him this marriage.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The joy was great, but the child was sickly and small, and had to be privately baptized on account of its weakness.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

W. Joyce will go with me to Brampton.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I did it with two judicious words— "Good-morning.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Among the incomers is a big fellow with a drooping mustache and square-set shoulders, who forthwith drops his handbag and pounces upon Jeffard with greetings boisterous.
— from The Helpers by Francis Lynde

The boat was swung on the davits, the screw revolved, and in a few moments the Juno was getting along at a great rate.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

John was glad that the marriage was to take place in Elizabeth’s own home.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

When vegetables are processed intermittently , jars with glass tops and spring clamps are recommended.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

These troops had not been recruited for eight years, and will soon die off; and yet we see that the Bey treats these remnants of the once formidable Turkish Tunisian Janissaries with great respect; of course, in an affair with the Arabs, their fidelity to the Bey would be most unshaken.
— from Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson

I was quite sure that Dick's jump was good enough, and so it proved.
— from At Start and Finish by William Lindsey

Although he had been to Washington but once in his life before, as a Lincoln elector, Jethro was greeted as an old acquaintance by this clerk also.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The miser has his joy, with gold Beneath his pillow in the night;
— from Foliage: Various Poems by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

“You may be sure Captain Joe will give a good account of himself,” Jule said confidently.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

In addition to this he was harassed by a painfully exact sense of justice which gave him peculiar views of his rights and duties.
— from The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Anatole France