Herod was now prepared to hear any thing in her Prejudice, and immediately ordered her Servant to be stretch'd upon the Rack; who in the Extremity of his Tortures confest, that his Mistress's Aversion to the King arose from something 6 Sohemus had told her; but as for any Design of poisoning, he utterly disowned the least Knowledge of it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

So Tip got out his knife and fashioned some ears out of the bark of a small tree.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

He also asserts that the Emperor Akbar favoured the worship of Krishna, a feeling shared by his successors Jahāngīr and Shāh Jahān.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

At least my shade thy punishment shall know, And Fame shall spread the pleasing news below.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

DJNR also offers full text from the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, publications like the Guardian and others from the United Kingdom, and from sources in the former Soviet Union (like Soviet Press Digest, BizEkon News, Moscow News, and others.) E-EUROPE is an electronic communications network for doing business in Eastern Europe countries, including CIS.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

An' here, they'n gi'en you lots o' good grogram and flannel, as should ha' been gi'en by good rights to them as had the sense to keep away from such foolery.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Mr. See Yup keeps a fancy store on Live Fox street.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Also for a few days will be sold the following articles, Table Knives and Forks, Scissors, Silver Watches, Maps and Prints, Profiles, some Linen, and a few Bed-Ticks, Teas, Tobacco, a few casks of fourth proof Cognac Brandy, and a small quantity of Lime Juice, and about twenty thousand Whitechapel Needles.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

kupal a for speech to be unintelligible, badly articulated.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then the old man covered the charming young woman’s countenance with kisses; and for several minutes not a word was spoken between them.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Then he laid the ring gently on the table and arranged his knife and fork side by side on his plate, as prescribed by the guide books to good manners.
— from The Cheerful Smugglers by Ellis Parker Butler

His great-grandfather was called Kolomientzov after the place in which he was born; his grandfather used to sign himself Kolomietzev; his father added another I and wrote himself Kollomietzev, and finally Simion Petrovitch considered himself to be an aristocrat of the bluest blood, with pretensions to having descended from the well-known Barons von Gallenmeier, one of whom had been a field-marshal in the Thirty Years’ War.
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

—A towel of the ordinary kind, and full size, is soaked in a basin of cold water and carefully wrung out until it is merely damp.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

The size of this kind averages from six to eight feet in length; but those which frequent the coast of Australia will measure from ten to twelve feet, and have enormous mouths furnished with four or five rows of long sharp teeth.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Knives and forks, spoons—fresh rolls—salt and pepper, and a dozen bottles of ginger-beer, and a little corkscrew in case we want it.”
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade