I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Everywhere there was one big thing that served six purposes; everywhere now there are six small things; or, rather (and there is the trouble), there are just five and a half.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Ay, part 'em now they are dead.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Three years of patient work produced eleven new translations; among them, this, by Grunfeldt, was received with considerable favor: The horse of Epiphanes shall be maintained at the public expense; this upon pain of death.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Juliette possessed everything needful to accomplish this end.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Empirical Thinking Empirical thinking depends on past habits Apart from the development of scientific method, inferences depend upon habits that have been built up under the influence of a number of particular experiences not themselves arranged for logical purposes.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

from the beginning; ever the past; never the past Eriw, n. progress, course Erlewyn, n. a meteor Erlid, n. a pursuit, a chase: v. to pursue; to persecute Erlidedig, a. persecuted Erlidedigaeth, n. persecution Erlidfa, n. a pursuit, a chase Erlidiad, n. a pursuing Erlidigaeth, n. persecution Erlidfa, n. a pursuit, a chase Erlidiol, a. pursuing, chasing Erlidiwr, n. pursuer; persecutor Erlif, n. a great torrent; flood Erlifiad, n. a deluging, an overflowing Erlifo, v. to flow in a torrent Erlyn, n. pursuit, chase: v. to pursue, to follow Erlyniad, n. a pursuer Erlyniaeth, n. the act of pursuing Erlyniedydd, n. pursuer Erlynol, a. persuing, chasing Erllen, n. a lamp Erllyfasu, v. to adventure Erllynedd, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

〈Life a Play.〉 Ed : no title, and no punctuation except the two marks of interrogation , Bur A Kisse.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Aunt Dorcas had brought with her a small basket containing many tiny packages, each neatly tied and labelled, and she had her own opinion as to where the different kinds of seeds should be sown.
— from The Princess and Joe Potter by James Otis

This vast prairie extends northward to and beyond the Great Lakes, and it is recorded that in the early history of the proposed legislation for the "Northwest Territory," Congress gravely selected as the names of the States which were to be created out of it such ponderous conglomerates as "Metropotamia," "Assenispia," "Pelisipia" and "Polypotamia," titles which happily were long ago permitted to pass into oblivion.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

I, part 'em now they are dead.
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

We would recommend such to obtain and study the best works upon hygiene, put in practice every new truth as soon as learned, and become missionaries of the saving truths of hygiene to others who are suffering from the same cause as themselves, or who may be in danger of falling into the same evil.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

Many times during the last few weeks I have repeated to myself those fine lines of old Hesiod: ei gar tis kai penthos egon neokedei thumo aksetai kradien akakhemenos, autar aoidos mousaon therapon kleia proteron anthropon umnese, makaras te theous
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

It has since rapidly decreased in number there, and will most likely soon cease to exist as a wild bird, but its singular and ornamental appearance will probably preserve it as a modified captive in most civilized countries, and it is said, perhaps even now there are more Black Swans in a reclaimed condition in other lands than are at large in their mother country.
— from Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 2 [February, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life by Various

Between the year 1686, when Fulcran Rey was hanged at Beaucaire, and the year 1698, when Claude Brousson was hanged at Montpellier, not fewer than seventeen pastors were publicly executed; namely, three at Nismes, two at St. Hippolyte and Marsillargues in the Cevennes, and twelve on the Peyrou at Montpellier—the public place on which Protestant Christians in the South of France were then principally executed.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles