Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Whence it is that, in memory of the want we were then in, we keep a feast for eight days, which is called the feast of unleavened bread.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

4. Upon the fifteenth day of the same month, when the season of the year is changing for winter, the law enjoins us to pitch tabernacles in every one of our houses, so that we preserve ourselves from the cold of that time of the year; as also that when we should arrive at our own country, and come to that city which we should have then for our metropolis, because of the temple therein to be built, and keep a festival for eight days, and offer burnt-offerings, and sacrifice thank-offerings, that we should then carry in our hands a branch of myrtle, and willow, and a bough of the palm-tree, with the addition of the pome citron: That the burnt-offering on the first of those days was to be a sacrifice of thirteen bulls, and fourteen lambs, and fifteen rams, with the addition of a kid of the goats, as an expiation for sins; and on the following days the same number of lambs, and of rams, with the kids of the goats; but abating one of the bulls every day till they amounted to seven only.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Our duty is to sow good seed in the minds of our children, and to see that the ground be kept as free from evil weeds as possible.
— from Home Scenes and Home Influence; a series of tales and sketches by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

With the flash of powder they with difficulty kindled a fire, for everything was dripping with moisture, and every log was soaked.
— from The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Near this place we observed, however, the first signs of the wild turkey; not long afterward we landed in the Big Bend, and killed a fine fat elk, on which we feasted.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

It is a dreary thought, lads, to lose country and kindred and friends for ever by the act of one dark hour.
— from The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Sheep are also killed and frozen for exportation to Europe, a single saldero or slaughter-house, at Campana, fifty miles from Buenos Ayres, shipping five hundred carcasses daily.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

The grateful tears stole into the daughter's eyes, but she kept a firm face, even after they began to follow one another down her cheeks.
— from Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells

Ebbing in the night watches swift away, Scarce known are fled for ever is the flow; And in parched channel still the shrunk stream mourns.
— from Songs of the Common Day, and, Ave!: An Ode for the Shelley Centenary by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir