Footnote 1: Henry Boyle, to whom the third volume of the Spectator is dedicated, was the youngest son of Charles, Lord Clifford; one of the family founded by the Richard, Earl of Cork, who bought Raleigh's property in Ireland.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey’s bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

" Jo pointed, and Laurie sat up to examine, for through an opening in the wood one could look cross the wide, blue river, the meadows on the other side, far over the outskirts of the great city, to the green hills that rose to meet the sky.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

chalenge , chalange , OF. calenge ; Lat. calumnia .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

If the two sorts of causal laws could be sharply distinguished, we could call an occurrence "physical" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the physical world, and "mental" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the mental world.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

o octo cõ lo capitanio Queſti non ne tirauão in alt o ſinon ale gambe per q̃ erano
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Contrarie , adj. contrary, C2, C3.—AF. contrarie (OF. contraire ); Lat. contrarium .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The reports of all the governors-general of the Philippines who have preceded Governor Forbes tell, year after year, of the millions “handed over” to American hemp importers through “the hemp joker” of the Act of Congress of 1902, hereinafter explained, in the chapter on Congressional Legislation ( Chapter XXVI .).
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The volume of Cherokee laws, compiled in the Cherokee language by the Nation, in 1850, begins with the year 1808.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

chestnut-tree, Manip.; chesteyn , C, MD; cheston , Voc.—AF. chestaine , OF. chastaigne ; Lat. castanea ; from Gr. κάστανον .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The tables and benches were filled with every kind of chemical instrument imaginable—beakers, retorts, test tubes, hundreds of bottles of different kinds of colored liquids, crucibles, and a series of burners over which simmered vials and pots of chemical mixtures.
— from The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow

To record the effect of meals on the physical condition of children, Leyton Council is erecting weighing machines in the feeding centres.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 by Various

In most of our colonies large crops of the finest descriptions of yams, cocos, &c., could be obtained, but the planting of ground provisions is too much neglected by all classes.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

In 1977, the Ohio members of OCLC adopted changes in the governance structure that enabled libraries outside Ohio to become members and participate in the election of the Board of Trustees; the Ohio College Library Center became OCLC, Inc.
— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

Of course liberty could not be fully established in this country until the Nation was fully established, until the Constitution was adopted, until laws were enacted; but from the adoption of the Constitution [pg 030] to the present time the people have enacted laws from time to time, and still enact laws, the better to protect every man in his liberty and to enlarge his opportunities in life.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Another detachment of the 7th joined Col. Sweeny’s command of detachments and took part in the fight with Scott’s Cavalry at Richmond, Ky., July 28th, 1863, and made a brilliant saber charge against the same command at Crab Orchard, (Capt. Leaper commanding detachment,) skirmishing with them at Stanford, and following them on their retreat to the Cumberland river, compelling them to drop one section of artillery, said to be the same we abandoned in the mountains on the Sander’s raid.
— from History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry by R. C. (Richard C.) Rankin

The cells are to be placed side by side on the battery rack so that the positive terminal of one cell (long connecting strap) can be connected to the negative terminal (short strap) of the adjacent cell.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

'A day of commingled lucent clarity and vernal softness, ain't it?' "'Well, I wouldn't care to bet on that without going a little deeper into the subject,' says I; 'but it smells good at least—so does that ham and eggs.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips

Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

A number of pupæ from Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, were placed in cages, into which only coloured light could fall, and though these experiments are not sufficiently extended to allow us to form any sound conclusions as to the effect of the coloured light, we got more varieties than could be expected from a batch of pupæ from the same locality.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor