I am out shopping early with Ma, and I said I had a headache and got Ma to leave me outside in the phaeton, in Piccadilly, and ran round to Sackville Street, and heard that Sophronia was here, and then Ma came to see, oh such a dreadful old stony woman from the country in a turban in Portland Place, and I said I wouldn't go up with Ma but would drive round and leave cards for the Boffins, which is taking a liberty with the name;
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

A short dialogue, neither very material nor pleasant to relate minutely, then passed between them, in which he pressed her vehemently to give her consent to the marriage with Blifil, who, as he acquainted her, was to be in town in a few days; but, instead of complying, she gave a more peremptory and resolute refusal than she had ever done before.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Where is the vision may penetrate earth and beholding acknowledge Just one pebble at root ruined the straightness of stem?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

On the 18th of April, 1783, the Continental Congress passed a resolve, recommending the States to amend the Articles of Confederation in such manner that the national expenses should be defrayed out of a common treasury, "which shall be supplied by the several States, in proportion to the whole number of white or other free inhabitants, of [128] every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes, in each State.
— from Slavery and the Constitution by William I. (William Ingersoll) Bowditch

It was simply a blanket fastened to two long poles, and rolled round them so as to form a couch of about a yard in width.
— from The Norsemen in the West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The Russian account of the Kamtschatkans says, ‘besides the above-mentioned gods, they pay a religious regard to several animals from which they apprehend danger.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

A sombre old interior, with its heavy arches, and its roof vaulted like the top of a trunk; its stone gallery, with ponderous adornments, running round three sides.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

These two parties have finally, by the most unprecedented and unwarrantable proceedings (an account of which you have no doubt seen in the newspapers), succeeded in passing a resolution requiring the sense of the people to be taken at the next general election (August, 1824), on the propriety of calling a convention for the purpose of altering the constitution.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

—Children can gradually be assisted to realise the earth as an enormous globe of matter, with vast continents and oceans on its surface and with a clinging atmosphere, the whole moving very rapidly (nineteen miles each second) through space, and constituting one of a number of other planets all revolving round the sun.
— from The Substance of Faith Allied with Science (6th Ed.) A Catechism for Parents and Teachers by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

Already the shipment of strawberries to the Chicago market is proving a rich remuneration to student labor.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 10, October, 1880 by Various

Not only did the Poles and Ruthenians refuse to serve in the crusade; but, in spite of Ladislaus’s rebukes, they hastened to take up arms for the Bohemians; and so the third crusade collapsed even more ignominiously than the former ones.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice