Here he went to view the fortifications; and as he walked along the ramparts, his ears were saluted with these words: “Heaven bless the noble Count de Melvil! will not he turn the eyes of compassion on an old fellow-soldier reduced to misfortune and disgrace?” Surprised at this address, which was attended with the clanking of chains, Renaldo lifted up his eyes, and perceived the person who spoke to be one of two malefactors shackled together, who had been sentenced for some crime to work as labourers on the fortifications.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But long ere night cut down it lies All wither'd and decay'd. H2 anchor Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

ut tu quereris ista accidunt quod dii vestri a nobis non colantur, sed quod a vobis non colatur Deus, a quibus nec quaeritur, nec timetur , not as thou complainest, that we do not worship your Gods, but because you are idolaters, and do not serve the true God, neither seek him, nor fear him as you ought.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He laid it carefully between the door and the door-post, and then shut the door so that the nut cracked directly.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Side, & again contracts into a narrow chanel divided by a rock I returned through a rockey open countrey infested with pole-cats to the village where I met with Capt
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

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— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Now Dragon grown, larger then whom the Sun Ingenderd in the Pythian Vale on slime, Huge Python , and his Power no less he seem’d Above the rest still to retain; they all Him follow’d issuing forth to th’ open Field, Where all yet left of that revolted Rout Heav’n-fall’n, in station stood or just array, Sublime with expectation when to see In Triumph issuing forth thir glorious Chief; They saw, but other sight instead, a crowd Of ugly Serpents; horror on them fell, And horrid sympathie; for what they saw, They felt themselvs now changing; down thir arms, Down fell both Spear and Shield, down they as fast, And the dire hiss renew’d, and the dire form Catcht by Contagion, like in punishment, As in thir crime.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The matter upon which I now insist is simply this: the new constitution does in any case transfer the effective government of Ireland from the Imperial Parliament to the Irish Parliament.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey

As night came death seemed at hand and one of his friends offered to take his body to England, after his death, that he might be laid in Christian soil.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

e could not clearly discern, and marched softly behind them.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

Capt. Kidd was come into these parts to apply himself unto his Excellency the Earl of Bellomont, the said Narrator came directly from Albany
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

Following this method, he will not cast doubt on the purity of their motives, or try to lessen their merit in drawing entire nations of barbarians out of the darkness of paganism and immorality into the light of Christianity and virtue.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

No City Directories are available before 1867 so it is entirely possible that the combination of the two names originated before that date.
— from Southern Derringers of the Mississippi Valley by Turner Kirkland

[Footnote 1: General Lee had three sons and four daughters, all of whom are living except one of the latter, Miss Anne Lee, who died in North Carolina during the war.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke