They will take food cooked without water from Banias, Sunārs and Tameras, but katchi roti only from the Brāhmans who act as their priests.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

‘But it is to be remembered,’ said the King, reaching out for the bottle, ‘that he is a very expert log-snatcher and a man of a merry face.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

One day, as she hurried home from the grocer's with half-a-dozen eggs and two lemons, Katie ran out from the gate, and met her halfway down Budd Street.
— from Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Tell him that you know , regardless of figures, that there are many idlers who are enormously rich and many honest, industrious workers who are miserably poor.
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

In a letter which Mr. Abel, the Director of the Chemical [72] Department of the War Establishment, has sent me, occur the following remarks:— "Early in 1849 I was appointed, partly through the kind recommendation of Faraday, to instruct the senior cadets and a class of artillery officers in the Arsenal, in practical chemistry.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

I heard one of them talking once, and he just kept right on for two or three hours, telling us about how the earth was made, and how this used to be water where it is all dry now, and a whole parcel of things that I didn't understand, and I don't believe anybody else did, except the man that was talking."
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

(The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of Light Dragoons (Lancers) 17th (Regiment of Light Dragoons Lancers) Scots' Fusilier Guards Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs) 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot 6th (Inniskillen) Regiment of Dragoons 5th Regiment of Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers) 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot 9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot 13th Prince Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot 19th (1st Yorkshire North-riding) Regiment of Foot 21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers) 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot 25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot 28th (The North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 31st (The Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot 33rd (The 1st Yorkshire West-riding) Regiment of Foot 34th (The Cumberland) Regiment of Foot 35th (The Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot 36th (The Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot 37th (The North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 40th (The 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 44th (The East Essex) Regiment of Foot 45th (The Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 46th (The South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot 48th (The Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot 51st
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

But Peter didn’t know it, and he kept right on filling that big stomach of his and enjoying it so much that he forgot to watch out for danger.
— from The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Kathryn reached out for them.
— from At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock