"In later days our survivors or successors may look back with softened sorrow and pride to the part which men of our corps have played in these passing events, and Charles Gordon far in the front of all; and then they may set up our little tablets, or what not—not to preserve the memory of our heroes, but to maintain the integrity of our own record of the illustrious dead."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Moreover, of our church have been the apostles and evangelists, the martyrs and confessors of Christ, who have at all times and in all ages been persecuted for the testimony of the word of God.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Whitehouse returned with his horse at 1 P.M. the days are now very warm and the Musquetoes our old companions have become very troublesome.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Whitehouse returned with his horse at 1 P.M. the days are very worm and the Musquetors our old Companions have become very troublesom.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Monro (Obs. on Crural Hernia) states this condition of the obturator artery to be as 1 in 20-30.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

A metaphor from fly-fishing, the silly fish RISING to be caught by an artificial fly; to mortify, outwit, or cheat him, by superior cunning.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

But the main outlines of chieftainship here presented, will be enough to give a clear idea of it and of some of the flavour of their institutions, as much, in fact, as is necessary, in order to understand the chief’s rôle in the Kula.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But amongst other things, the strict government of most of our colleges has evermore displeased me; peradventure, they might have erred less perniciously on the indulgent side.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

That this vocation, predestination, election, reprobation, non ex corrupta massa, praeviso, fide , as our Arminians, or ex praevisis operibus , as our papists, non ex praeteritione , but God's absolute decree ante mundum creatum , (as many of our church hold) was from the beginning, before the foundation of the world was laid, or homo conditus , (or from Adam's fall, as others will, homo lapsus objectum est reprobationis ) with perseverantia sanctorum , we must be certain of our salvation, we may fall but not finally, which our Arminians will not admit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

All the members of our circle had been officially informed from the beginning that Stepan Trofimovitch would see nobody for a time, and begged them to leave him quite alone.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If this is so, Avebury certainly was not erected either as a temple or a place of assembly, in any sense of the word which we can understand, and those who insist that it was either are bound to explain what the motives or objects could have been which induced the inhabitants of the Wiltshire downs to act in a manner so entirely opposed to all we know of the actions or feelings of all other nations in all other parts of the world.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

Jochen had already started up again, and the next instant Hinrich Scheel, in his turn, was lying on the sand, face downwards, and Jochen, kneeling on his shoulders, was in the act of tying his elbows behind him with a small rope, which, after the manner of old coachmen, he always carried about with him.
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

As man he is entitled to all the rights of man, and as citizen he becomes a member of our common household, with Equality as the prevailing law.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Bumbus, with his moustache out of curl, his hat dented and rimless, his trousers baggy at the knees, and his eyes bleary and bloodshot from lack of sleep.
— from Billy Bounce by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow

Life-giving love rots to devouring fire; Justice corrupts to despicable revenge; Motherhood chokes in the dam's jealous mire; Hunger for growth turns fluctuating change; Love's anger grand grows spiteful human wrath, Hunting men out of conscience' holy path; And human kindness takes the tattler's range. 23.
— from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

The first is, that it positively sets aside what, down to this day, on the ruling of the highest magistrate of our country, has been the law in impanelling juries.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Gradually several men of our company had come together.
— from A German deserter's war experience by Anonymous

A member of our class has insulted the whole brigade, and under our old traditions only the second class can administer discipline."
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

We therefore urged our animals into a brisk canter; but, when within about two miles of our camp, his keen eyes detected, upon a rise of the ground some distance to our right, a solitary figure, motionless upon a horse.
— from The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens