“Of personal cleanliness I have spoken at such length that little need be said on that of the clothes.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

the latter part of the evening their rout lay over a hilly and mountanous country covered with the sharp fragments of flint which cut and bruised their feet excessively; nor wer the prickly pear of the leveler part of the rout much less painfull; they have now become so abundant in the open uplands that it is impossible to avoid them and their thorns are so keen and stif that they pearce a double thickness of dressed deers skin with ease.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This world has probably never been so fair a place to live in, life never so free from harsh conditions, as now; and as time goes on, there can be no doubt the improving process will continue.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

— nga tuluy ligid n tricycle. — nga binabáyi, sa babáyi n girl’s bicycle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Colonel followed him to the door, promising over and over again that he would use his influence to get some of the Early Malcolms for him, and insisting that he should not be such a stranger but come and take pot-luck with him every chance he got.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

silulúsa n bagasse, sugar cane pulp left after the juice has been extracted.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"Ah, father," answered the son, "the young tree was bound to no post and has grown crooked, now it is too old, it will never be straight again.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Poor father has never been strong for years back, but this has broken him down completely.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1160 the system had gone to such excess that government paper equivalent in nominal value to 43,600,000 ounces of silver had been issued in six years, and there were local notes besides; so that the Empire was flooded with rapidly depreciating paper.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Ye must find a safe bit somewhere near by,” said James, “and get word sent to me.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then he was afraid that the Indians would by some accident, lean something against the curtain of small roots between two other big trees, and that the curtain might not be strong enough to support it, in which event their hiding-place would be discovered at once.
— from The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War by George Cary Eggleston

The name Borth stands for Y Borth , ‘the Harbour,’ which, more adequately described, was once Porth Wyđno , ‘Gwyđno’s Harbour.’
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

At one time poor Stickles was quite in despair; for after leaping a little brook which crosses the track at Newland, be stuck fast in a 'dancing bog,' as we call them upon Exmoor.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Why has Nature been so cruel a step-mother to me?’
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

His purse had never been sufficiently distended for him to contract for luxurious apartments, or at least distended long enough for him to pause in the wild revel which always 106 followed close on the heels of the receipt of money for a play, to consider any question of comfort in the near future, consequently both in seasons of poverty and moments of affluence this one room at the Boar’s Head was his permanent headquarters.
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

Naŋ ikalawà ŋ gabè, naŋ magdaàn sya ŋ ulè sa pasíga ŋ itò, nakáramdam sya ŋ mulí naŋ sábuy naŋ buháŋin sa kanya ŋ likòd.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

She was undoubtedly a very aged negress, but she still retained full powers of articu
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

Werner was acting as he always acted when he was out late the night before, she had said.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve