152 Consideration of, or predilection for, particular persons.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced by female felons capitally convicted, which they take care to provide for, previous to their trials; every gaol having, as the Beggar's Opera informs us, one or more child getters, who qualify the ladies for that expedient to procure a respite.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The flight of science is merely longer from perception to perception, and its deduction more accurate of meaning from meaning and purpose from purpose.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Colonels of regiments and commanders of corps are liable to severe punishment for permitting their men to leave their camps to commit waste or destruction; but I know full well that many of the acts attributed to soldiers are committed by citizens and negroes, and are charged to soldiers because of a desire to find fault with them; but this only reacts upon the community and increases the mischief.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The clergyman who met the procession was Mr. Cadwallader—also according to the request of Peter Featherstone, prompted as usual by peculiar reasons.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Printed for private circulation, 1882, 8vo., pp.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But the poets are also the representatives of falsehood and feigning in all departments of life and knowledge, like the sophists and rhetoricians of the Gorgias and Phaedrus; they are the false priests, false prophets, lying spirits, enchanters of the world.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

panggasininsi n people from Pangasinan.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the Highlands of Scotland the proper places for performing the rite seem to have been knolls or small islands in rivers.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The 'Notes' had been printed for private circulation only; when Châstellux asked [Pg 132] permission to publish them in France, Jefferson consented on the condition that all passages relating to slavery should be stricken out.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

R103602, 5Dec52, Stefano Pirandello, Fausto Pirandello & Rosalia (Lietta) Aguirre Pirandello (C) PIRANDELLO, LUIGI.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Square boxes made in the same way are pretty for pocket-handkerchiefs.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Various

Finally satisfied that he was secure from observation and all sound deadened, Miller took from his overcoat pocket four porcelain castors, and dropping on his knees by the side of his brass bed, he deftly inserted them in place of the bed's regular steel castors.
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Tongue out, tail wagging, Buff stood at the gate of the fold, holding his prisoners from passing out again until the puffing and marvelling farmer came running up.
— from Buff: A Collie, and Other Dog-Stories by Albert Payson Terhune

The Doc would draw his fees for making folks sick, you’d clear a handsome profit for poisoning them, Gay ’ud rake in his dollars for burying ’em, and Restless?––why Restless ’ud put in white pine for oak, and retire on the profits in five years.
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

In the midst of their financial difficulties the Commons had been busy elaborating the propositions for peace sent down to them from the Lords.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

In place of an elevator or staircase they had a spiral pathway running up from the centre of the hall to the roof, upon which guests could either walk or ride, an electric bicycle built for two being provided for [Pg 50] those who did not care to walk up, the elevator boy sitting on the front seat and managing the apparatus.
— from Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

in various cities of the Roman state, without mentioning the pictures sent to foreign courts, and painted for private individuals.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

Railroad corporations being created by legislative grants, their business being that of common carriers for hire, the legislature possesses full power to enact such laws as will limit and restrict their charges for transportation to a reasonable tariff, prohibit and punish extortions and unjust discriminations, and provide for the swift infliction of penalties whenever the laws are violated.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud