We put eighteen hundred pounds of provisions and mining tools in the wagon and drove out of Carson on a chilly December afternoon.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

(ii) The independent position of the freeman would give him an obvious advantage in doing the work of Christ, which it is difficult to imagine St Paul enjoining him deliberately to forego.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed King at Hampton pier Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phorbus fanning.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Tertia est urbs, quae, quod in ea parte Fortunae fanum antiquum fuit, 20 Tycha nominata est, in qua et gymnasium amplissimum est et complures aedes sacrae: coliturque ea pars et habitatur frequentissime.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Pero en honor de la verdad, debe decirse que la mala reputación de las Troyas consistía, más que nada, en su fama de chismosas, enredadoras, traviesas y despreocupadas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In the past, education has been much more vocational in fact than in name.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Pg 43 Greek text Also, that which is still contained in the veins, and still more, that which is in the stomach, from the fact that it is destined to nourish if properly elaborated, has been called “nutriment.”
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“Very little, at least; I know of none which Cavalcanti possesses, excepting his palace in Lucca.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

With such blankets a man can lie on one-half and pull the other half over him, and by suddenly elevating his pedal extremities he can drop the lower edge of the blankets under them, while the upper part can be drawn tightly around his head and shoulders.
— from Woodcraft by Elmer Harry Kreps

Nuevo Laredo Robert Butler Mahone [CS1] C. Do V. & D. C. Progreso Edward H. Thompson C. Campeche Rafael Preciat Agt.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

Here, in days gone by, the stern Romanoff ruled this land, and Baron Wrangell, one of Russia's many celebrated Polar explorers, held sway.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

It was as obvious then as now that there were inequalities in life, that one man was born to ease or wealth, or a great name, whereas another came into existence without any of these advantages, perhaps even hampered by positive disadvantages.
— from Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

Europe is laid waste, hundreds of thousands of men murdered, and practically every human being in the occidental hemisphere made to suffer, not for the amelioration of a race, but in order to satisfy the idiotic ambitions of a handful.
— from The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter

Her husband's experience was added to the earlier recollection of every salient point, every Haus-Mahrchen ; and never were husband and wife more in sympathy than the two who now snatched a short season of delight from a sojourn in the cradle of their race.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

Little Oskaloo; or, The White Whirlwind Transcriber’s Note: Small punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
— from Little Oskaloo; or, The White Whirlwind by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

“Quidquid vero tentaverit et feliciter perfecerit liberalitas S. V., ut non paucis episcopis hospitia bona præberentur, plerique tamen relegati sunt in habitationes nimis augustas, sine aëre, calidissimas omninoque insalubres.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger