First, they had a king, and then a form of government; whereas, the articles or charter of government, should be formed first, and men delegated to execute them afterward: but from the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity— To begin government at the right end .
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

It would be as impossible for selfish seed, greed seed to produce a harvest of contentment, of genuine satisfaction, of real joy, as for thistle seeds to produce a harvest of wheat or corn.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Ninachetuen, an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dispossess him, without any apparent cause, of his command in Malacca, to transfer it to the King of Campar, he took this resolution with himself: he caused a scaffold, more long than broad, to be erected, supported by columns royally adorned with tapestry and strewed with flowers and abundance of perfumes; all which being prepared, in a robe of cloth of gold, set full of jewels of great value, he came out into the street, and mounted the steps to the scaffold, at one corner of which he had a pile lighted of aromatic wood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Later in the volume (p. 467) Grätz tacitly alters the words to make them express reciprocation or community of goods, substituting ‘Thine is mine’ for ‘Thine is thine’ in the second clause; ‘The Chassid must have no property of his own, but must treat it as belonging to the Society (שלי שלך שלך שלי חסיד).’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

On the side which looks towards Spain, at about 100 paces distance, is another long island, three miles wide, on which the original city of Gades stood.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

humita , f. ( Sp. A. ), small cake or croquette of grated sweet corn and sugar.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"She's been making her dinner off our corn." "Oh, gee," sighed the boy nervously.
— from Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City by Alice B. Emerson

“I am afraid,” he went on confidentially, “of gettin’ slugs to eat.
— from The Grey Lady by Henry Seton Merriman

The padding may be made of a special wax treated like cement, or of absorbent cotton-wool soaked in a paste made of flour and water, or of cuttings of glove skins shredded very fine
— from The Decoration of Leather From the French of Georges de Récy by Georges de Récy

A man who 'makes' an ounce of seed requires six tables, 8 feet by 4, for his cages; and as some men make thirty-five ounces, chambers of great size are necessary for the accommodation of their worms; but breeders to so large an extent as this are the princes of the trade.
— from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne

At last it ended; and an "orator" in apparel of cloth of gold, spoke a kind of special epilogue in rhyming metre in praise of the Virgin Queen, and then retired bowing.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

Second, a wood or coal or gas stove in the room, provided with a proper vent, so that all the gases of combustion are drawn up the chimney.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair