Other contracts have since been made for the completion of the building; of these, the principal is with Messrs. Baker and Son (the builders of the King's library and new galleries of the British Museum, &c.) who have executed the beautiful finishings of the interior: these contracts amount to upwards of £12,000.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

“Will be relished by printers and their patrons: for the latter a needful glossary of terms is not forgotten.”
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

They have tried to compel Magyar forms and standards in language, in literature, in history, the arts, the sciences, religion, law, in every intimate or remote concern of the daily life and national genius of their Slavic subjects.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

It gives no serious consideration to a great matter like that, but just lightly accepts it like a new game or toy and plays with it about as readily.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

should apply themselves rather to lay a new grasp on the ancient wisdom of Catholicism with one hand, and with the other to repulse and discomfit the audacious and execrable crowd of modern errors.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Landor, perhaps, may oblige us to dip into his biography in order to verify our thesis that the poet is invariably passionate, but in many cases this state of things is reversed, the poet being wont to assure us that the conventional incidents of his life afford no gauge of the ardors within his soul.
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

There are also the islets and shoals seen by the ship Sovereign, which are probably a part of those that extend so far from the northwest end of New Caledonia; and all these, with some others further northward, lie in the space comprehended between Louisiade and New Guinea on the north--New Caledonia to the east--New South Wales to the west--and a line drawn from Sandy Cape to the Isle of Pines on the south.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Thereupon the two feeble old fellows skirled a wicked laugh, and nearly gasped out their slim residue of life in unseemly merriment.
— from Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes