They had walked along the Strand, and into Pall Mall, and had turned up-hill towards Hyde Park Corner; Bradley Headstone waiting on the pace and lead of Riderhood, and leaving him to indicate the course.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Dowry of Parny , a lot of rain.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

He had been sent by his minister (Methodist) to fetch from another parish a load of religious books—Bibles, Testaments, Watts’ ‘Psalms, Hymns and Songs for Children’—and was coming home with the same, on horseback, by night, when he saw a living thing, round like a bowl, moving to and fro across the lane.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

In the kitchen—“Make that pie a large one, Rose; I daresay the boys’ll be hungry; and don’t put so much pepper in, they’ll not like it, I’m sure”—or, “Rose, don’t put so many spices in the pudding, Gilbert likes it plain,”—or, “Mind you put plenty of currants in the cake, Fergus liked plenty.”
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

After these achievements of their king, the Lacedaemonians proclaimed a licence of reprisal against the Achaeans.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

While in each house the women, pained At loss of Ráma, still complained, Sank to his rest the Lord of Day, And night through all the sky held sway.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“At a few minutes to seven,” returned the duke (suiting the action to the words), “I raise the crust of the pie; I find in it two poniards, a ladder of rope, and a gag.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

But granting we are not certain, does it then follow that a bare trust in such a world is a fool's paradise and lubberland, or rather that it is a living attitude in which we are free to indulge?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

[1] Wanting in G.-V. [347b] ANOTHER SAUCE FOR WILD GOAT ALITER IUS IN CAPREA PEPPER, SPICES, PARSLEY, A LITTLE ORIGANY, RUE, BROTH, HONEY, RAISIN WINE, AND A LITTLE OIL; BIND WITH ROUX [1].
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

with Mary of Anjou, in 1413, although probably there had never been assembled together so many princes and ladies of rank, that at the banquet the ladies alone dined with the Queen, "and no gentlemen sat with them."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

[At this point a length of record that probably represents thirty or forty words is totally illegible.]
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He thought I meant it in jest: he laughed at it, and played a lot of ridiculous variations to burlesque it.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

There was a quick peep, a look of relief, a husky whisper, “Is that you, Mary Ann?”
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

By the procurement and labours of Robert Campbell of Kinyeancleuch, he visited the old Earl of Argyll in the Castle of Campbell, and there he taught certain days.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

"Boys," said Joe, "pack a lot of round, hard snow-balls, and cut 'em in two.
— from Harper's Young People, March 1, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

People have, however, a right to expect— and to demand —that their regularly chosen representatives and other government officials prevent a lot of raiders, or any one else for that matter, from making more than a fair, legitimate profit on what they do for or contribute to that service.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

On the morrow I presented a letter of recommendation, from my good genius Alcibiade, to one of the principal jewellers in the city, and felt inexpressibly happy on being at once taken into employment.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

At first only the people of the neighborhood knew anything about these amateur performances; but presently a lady of rank, one Mme.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 by Lyndon Orr

The lower half is deep, providing a large oil reservoir and stiffening the engine.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé