rihtwestende m. extreme western limit , AO 8 32 (y 1 ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"What do you think," he writes, "must be my expense, who love to pry into everything of the kind?
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I would visit Mun Eddings, who lived in two very dirty rooms, and ask why little Lugene, whose flaming face seemed ever ablaze with the dark-red hair uncombed, was absent all last week, or why I missed so often the inimitable rags of Mack and Ed.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

As the richer sort got into ships, so the lower rank got into hoys, smacks, lighters, and fishing-boats; and many, especially watermen, lay in their boats; but those made sad work of it, especially the latter, for, going about for provision, and perhaps to get their subsistence, the infection got in among them and made a fearful havoc; many of the watermen died alone in their wherries as they rid at their roads, as well as above bridge as below, and were not found sometimes till they were not in condition for anybody to touch or come near them.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

This man was Mr. Eldret, who lived below Ford's, [Pg 153] on the same side of the bayou.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Its popularity is no doubt due to the fact that you can get much effect with little knowledge.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Yonder was a path that he had ofttimes trod of a mellow evening, with Little John beside him; here was one, now nigh choked with brambles, along which he and a little band had walked when they went forth to seek a certain curtal friar.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I confess that I cannot recall any case within my experience which looked at the first glance so simple, and yet which presented such difficulties.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

No-one was making him rush any more, everything was left up to him.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

It was drawing towards the close of Arthur's first half-year, and the May evenings were lengthening out.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Neither of the queens was a novice in the arts of dissimulation, and as often as it suited the interest or caprice of the moment, each would lavish upon the other, without scruple, every demonstration of amity, every pledge of affection; -337- -vol i- but jealousy, suspicion, and hatred dwelt irremoveably in the inmost recesses of their hearts.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

He’ll know what we’d better do, and I’m sure Miss Eleanor will leave it to him to decide.”
— from A Campfire Girl's Happiness by Jane L. Stewart

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He took it into his head to try to perfect the technique of fresco and he gave himself up once more to his evil spirit of invention and once more everything was lost.
— from Michelangelo by Romain Rolland

"He reported that there were sure and certain signs that the whole of the Bazaar is built upon a diamond field of unusual proportions, which, unlike other Indian mining enterprises, was likely to repay, doubly repay, exploitation.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

The pattern is of leafy scrolls and conventional flowers well marked, enriched with light fillings and outlined with cordonnet of fine buttonhole stitching.
— from Seven Centuries of Lace by Maria Margaret Pollen

I know my experience was like yours, Clara, and I think from all those I have heard talk about such matters that theirs is also the same.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

As bad luck would have it, they took the most easterly, which led towards Yetholm, and left the Scottish army to the westward.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg