Then get ready ( kalengkapan-nya ) five cubits of white cloth, a mat for sitting on ( tikar sa-gulong tempat dudok ), a birch of seven “green” cocoa-nut twigs ( lidi niyor hijau tujoh ’lei ), and the necessary sorts of rice.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

We drank each of us, three cupps, and so, after riding up to the horsemen upon the hill, where they were making of matches to run, we went away and to Yowell, where we found our breakfast, the remains of our supper last night hashed, and by and by, after the smith had set on two new shoes to Creed’s horse, we mounted, and with little discourse, I being intent upon getting home in time, we rode hard home, observing Mr. Gauden’s house, but not calling there (it being too late for me to stay, and wanting their dog too).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The province included part of the counties of Lincoln, Northampton, Huntingdon, and Cambridge.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

When He heard your lumbering noise, He gave a wonderful innocent smile; I believe what you did pleased Him well enough, for He showed no sign to the contrary.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Palati , nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum 5 omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus , nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt?
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Early in 1822 he furnished a banquet lasting nine hours, at the time of the founding of the Royalist journal, the "Reveil."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Lord Nelson himself got me appointed to her.
— from The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" by William Henry Giles Kingston

In Patagonia, the continuation across the Andes of the line from San Antonio to Lake Nahuel Huapi has been considered.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

"Is he at London?" "No, he is far away, but please don't say anything more about it."
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 22: to London by Giacomo Casanova

He neither loves nor hates, but fears, the white man, and the white man neither loves nor hates, but despises him; there being some fear mingled with the contempt.
— from The Mentor: Bolivia, vol. 5, Num. 18, Serial 142, November 1, 1917 by E. M. (Edward Manuel) Newman

"You don't live near here," he stated at last.
— from Yellowstone Nights by Herbert Quick

They talk of him a lot now; he's quite coming to the fore among the young Tories.”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

They went to gather flowers—irises and crocuses, lilies, narcissus, hyacinths and roseblooms—that grow in those fields.
— from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Robert Winter had overtaken Stephen Littleton in a wood, and together they made their way to the house of a Mrs. Littleton, near Hagley, where they were secreted, without her knowledge, by her cousin Humphrey Littleton, but were betrayed by a servant of Mrs. Littleton.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

To quote them in the accidental order in which I find them in the table of contents, where they are arranged by the alphabetical order of the several papers, the Miscellany contributors were Edward Everett, George Lunt, Nathan Hale, Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. P. Willis, W. W. Story, J. R. Lowell, C. N. Emerson, Alexander H. Everett, Sarah P. Hale, W. A. Jones, Cornelius Matthews, Mrs. Kirkland, J. W. Ingraham, H. T. Tuckerman, Evart A. Duyckinck, Francis A. Durivage, Mrs. J. Webb, Charles F. Powell, Charles W. Storey, Lucretia P. Hale, Charles F. Briggs, William E. Channing, Charles Lanman, G. H. Hastings, and Elizabeth B. Barrett, now Mrs. Browning, some of whose earliest poems were published in this magazine.
— from If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale