If you desire to know why some kind of bodies sink naturally downwards toward the Earth, and others goe naturally from it; The Schools will tell you out of Aristotle, that the bodies that sink downwards, are Heavy; and that this Heavinesse is it that causes them to descend:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Eanfrid, King of Bernicia, son of Ethelfrid, 134 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

And now it was that the king of Babylon sent Nebuzaradan, the general of his army, to Jerusalem, to pillage the temple, who had it also in command to burn it and the royal palace, and to lay the city even with the ground, and to transplant the people into Babylon.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A large number of persons were killed on both sides.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

There’s a kind o’ bad steam lies along the bottom farther in, and if a man was to lie down on the floor and go to sleep, I don’t s’pose he’d ever wake again.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

3. Remain, continue, persist, persevere, SUBSIST , go on, keep on, be steadfast, be constant.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

In certain kinds of bad seeing the parts may seem quite steady, but the fact that the mosaic exists is proof positive of poor seeing.
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

A list of its uses, compiled from reports of factory operations in Maryland, will give an idea of the range it covers: Basket bottoms, beer bottle boxes, boats, cart bodies, crates, flooring, frames for doors and windows, fruit boxes, interior finish, nail kegs, oyster boxes, seats for boats, siding for houses, staves for slack cooperage, store fixtures, wagon beds, balusters, brackets, chiffoniers, mantels, molding, picture frames, stair railing, sash, scrollwork, sideboards, tables.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson