Now, show me the distinction between such pilfering as this, and picking a man’s pocket in the street: unless, indeed, it be, that the legislature has a regard for pocket-handkerchiefs, and leaves men’s brains, except when they are knocked out by violence, to take care of themselves.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She had always known that it must expire, but the knowledge only became vivid about nine months before the event.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

A25 , B , D , H49 , JC , Lec , N , O'F , P (our), S96 , TC Bishops knot, O Bishop Valentine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

1669: Bishops knot, of Bishop Valentine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

1633-69 and Chambers 56 Bishops knot, or Bishop Valentine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

1633-54: Bishops knot of Bishop Valentine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

At last the others besought sundry powers among the gods, and thought they ought to sacrifice to the majesty of divers deities; but the king, offering both vows and peace-offerings to Utgarda-Loki, obtained that fair season of weather for which he prayed.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The following are the different kinds of biting, viz.: The hidden bite.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Objects given by one, in time reach some very distant indirect partner or other, and not only Kula objects, but various articles of domestic use and minor gifts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Since separation [page 129] Falls not on such things as are infinite, Nor things which are but one, can disunite, 50 You'are twice inseparable, great, and one; Goe then to where the Bishop staies, To make you one, his way, which divers waies Must be effected; and when all is past, And that you'are one, by hearts and hands made fast, 55 You two have one way left, your selves to'entwine, Besides this Bishops knot, or Bishop Valentine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Her lovely hair, which in the early days had hung in straight heavy plaits over her back, was now wound about her head, and kept in place by a band and knot of black velvet.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

But what were they to think of an individual who, being almost a perfect stranger in America, came forward at a public meeting, and spoke in terms like these of a society, supported and encouraged by the great majority of the nation—embracing in that majority most of what is distinguished by rank, by knowledge, or by virtue, in the country?
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

"You are going to keep on being viciously contented," accused Suzanne.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

Trag o póg o , an herbe called goats beard, hauing leaues like to saffron, and a great knop or bud vpon a sharp stalke.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

—There are four kinds of blood vessels.
— from Health Lessons, Book 1 by Alvin Davison

Some are full of keen observation; but very many are mere lists of dialectical words with their meanings.
— from English As We Speak It in Ireland by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

I’m not sure that I should care for your kind of books very much.”
— from Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The emperour of Constantinople comming into England to sue for aid against the Turkes, was met by the king on Blackeheath, vpon the feast day of saint Thomas the apostle, and brought vnto London with great honor.
— from Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

This Ebranke reigned in the said state ouer them a long time; after whose death Albania (as annexed to the empire of Britaine) descended to the onelie king of Britons, vntill the time of the two sisters sonnes, Morgan and Conedage, lineall heires from the said Ebranke, who brotherlie at the first diuided the realme betwéen them; so that Morgan had Lhoegres, and Conedage had Albania.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison