I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow- Whom from the flow of gan I name not, but From sincere motions, by intelligence, And proofs as clear as founts in July when We see each grain of gravel-I do know To be corrupt and treasonous.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I met with my cozen Roger Pepys and Creed; and from them understand that the Report was read to-day of the Miscarriages, wherein my Lord Sandwich is [named] about the business I mentioned this morning; but I will be at rest, for it can do him no hurt.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

the party had killed Several phesents and Cought a fiew Small fish on which they had Subsisted in my absence.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

216 In consequence of the precession of the equinoxes these points are continually advancing from W. to E., and are now about 30 degrees from the situation they were in when the observations were first made by the modern astronomers.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil—” Oh, I tell you it was a smasher!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

why, wherefore cūra, -ae , f. care, pains; anxiety cūria, -ae , f. senate house cūrō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ cūra , care ], care for, attend to, look after currō, -ere, cucurrī, cursus , run currus, -ūs , m. chariot cursus, -ūs , m. course custōdiō, -īre, -īvī, -ītus [ custōs , guard ], guard, watch D Daedalus, -ī , m. Dæd´alus , the supposed inventor of the first flying machine Dāvus, -ī , m. Davus , name of a slave dē , prep, with abl. down from, from; concerning, about, for ( § 209 ).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Now those are correct, which are construed with one of the oblique cases, in such a manner as to produce a categorem, as for instance, “He hears, he sees, he converses.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius, Publicola, and Caelius are for sea;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There he was in constant communication with the New York Times , General Thomas Hubbard—president of the Peary Arctic Club and financial sponsor of the "trust"—and Herbert L. Bridgman.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

The Proportional Representation Society seem to assume that a sufficient preliminary discussion will be carried on in the newspapers, and that not only the names and party programmes but the reasons for the selection of a particular person as candidate and for all the items in his programme will be known to 'the ordinary newspaper reader,' who is assumed to be identical with the ordinary citizen.
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil—" Oh, I tell you it was a smasher!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7. by Mark Twain

"Since thou art determined, take this," said Yang placing a ring on the boy's finger; adding, "It will pass thee through the guards of the outer palaces and courts as far as the prohibited wall, and then proceed no further, as you value your life, but await the approach of one of the officers of the guard, to whom you must show that ring, and tell him that you have business with the red-girdled Prince Woo-san-Kwei; further, be prudent, or thou wilt seek thy death."
— from The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

Six tons of potatoes are considered a fair crop.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

In 1841, the supply of otter having become exhausted, the Russians sold their property and claims about Fort Ross to the Swiss emigrant, the genial John Sutter.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

As a matter of fact, all that has yet been proved is that meteoric bodies follow in the track (which is very different from the tail) of some known comets, and that probably all comets are followed by trains of meteors.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

That this did not arise from inability or want of speed, but rather from a sense of his own superior dignity, was shown by the fact of his once having been seen to pursue and catch a fox, a feat none of our other dogs were capable of.
— from Across Patagonia by Dixie, Florence, Lady

Sir, I am thankful to you, and I'll go along By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow- Whom from the flow of gan I name not, but From sincere motions, by intelligence, And proofs as clear as founts in July when We see each grain of gravel-I do know To be corrupt and treasonous.
— from King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare