For many months he sat at his desk in Manila cheerily waging war with an inadequate force, and retaining in the service and on the firing line after their terms of enlistment expired, under pretence that they consented to it willingly, a lot of fellows from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and the Western States, who had volunteered for the war with Spain, with intent to kill Spaniards in order to free Cubans, and not with intent to kill Filipinos for also wanting to be free.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I had considered it as a defect in the admirable poem of THE TASK, that the subject, which gives the title to the work, was not, and indeed could not be, carried on beyond the three or four first pages, and that, throughout the poem, the connections are frequently awkward, and the transitions abrupt and arbitrary.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy, for sport.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then there is a surtax of five francs per bag in Santos, and of three francs in Rio, which goes toward defraying the expenses of valorization.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen to have arrived at once usually from Africa or South America—or to be on the verge of their departure thitherward, there is a sound of frequent feet passing briskly up and down the granite steps.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies prick’d in’t for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman’s lackey.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

ANT: Abandonment, nonreservation, surrender, absoluteness, openness, frankness, forwardness, pertness, unrestraint, undisguise, transparency, shamelessness indiscretion.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were essentially unromantic; their daily needs marked the general limit of their ideals, and, as a class, they cared little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Freshen the pork in the usual manner with water or soaking in milk, partly fry the pork, then put three or four freshly picked sprigs of sage in the frying pan with the pork.
— from Home Pork Making by A. W. (Albert Watson) Fulton

OYSTER FILLING FOR PATTIES For one dozen oysters, 1 tablespoonful of butter.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

He therefore felt no occasion for further personal interference until subsequent events showed him that there was a general combination to expel the government officers.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

These woods have rung to the horns of all the kings of France, from Philip Augustus downwards.
— from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are some fanciers who breed only for fancy points, and some market poultry growers who pay no attention at all to them, but as a rule those who give market poultry special attention want well-bred stock of good ordinary quality, and those who keep poultry for pleasure want the flock kept for this purpose to supply at least their own tables with eggs and meat.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson