Then come you to the Papey, a proper house, wherein sometime was kept a fraternity or brotherhood of St. Charity and St. John Evangelist, called the Papey, for poor impotent priests (for in some language priests are called papes), founded in the year 1430 by William Oliver, William Barnabie, and John Stafford, chaplains or chantry priests in London, for a master, two wardens, etc., chaplains, chantry priests, conducts, and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted into the church of St. Augustine Papey in the wall.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

An identical word, covering all the identical qualities in the phenomena and serving to abstract them, would force the inconsistent qualities in those phenomena to pass for accidents; and the useful proposition could at once be framed that the same river may be sometimes free and sometimes frozen.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

súngil = sikmul , v2. sungisuk a bulldog-faced: snub-nosed, having pudgy cheeks, and overhanging bones on the brow.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is true that most revolutionary agitators have been in some way abnormal and that the revolutionary army has largely been recruited from the unfit, but the real inspirers of the movement have frequently been men in prosperous circumstances and of brilliant intellect who might have distinguished themselves on other lines had they not chosen to devote their talents to subversion.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Holding in as much esteem the memory of that illustrious exile, as he held the villain who ruined him in horror; he possessed curious anecdotes of both, which Segur had not inserted in the life, still in manuscript, of the former, and he assured me that the Comte de Luc, far from ever having had reason to complain of his conduct, had until his last moment preserved for him the warmest friendship.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But experienced medical specialists, though few, are to be found, as well as women doctors; there are veterinary surgeons, musicians (chiefly belonging to the poorest classes and often blind), actors, teachers, attorneys, diviners, artists, letter-writers, and many others, men of letters being perhaps the most prominent and most esteemed.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

But, in course of time, the territory was partly regranted to more favored individuals, and partly cleared and occupied by actual settlers.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without proper clothing and on borrowed money," he demanded.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

The following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects.
— from Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

"Considerations of economy, … which under a natural system afford some security for humane treatment by identifying the master's interest with the slave's preservation, when once trading in slaves is practised become reasons for racking to the utmost the toil of the slave; for when his place can at once be supplied from foreign preserves the duration of his life becomes a matter of less moment than its productiveness while it lasts.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

[255] On December 4, the Lords of the Privy Council, ‘and other barons and men of judgement,’ met in Edinburgh.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

Steadfast to and immovable in the truth, few men have ever lived who have manifested such integrity and such unflinching moral and physical courage as our beloved President who has just gone from us.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

At seven Weeks, they come to be of their proper Colour, all over brown.
— from A Treatise of Buggs by John Southall

I had a great many friends who could easily have put collecting and other business in my hands, but none of them did it.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland