“That will pass, that will pass, good mother.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Almost a mile; but he does usually, So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Make it their walk.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, the lowest condition to which cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress—of patterns which are now no longer cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both of fashion and poverty, going to become paper of one color or a few shades only, on which, forsooth, will be written tales of real life, high and low, and founded on fact!
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Clatsops proceeded on with their lodes—The Clatsops, Chin nooks Kil a mox &c. are verry loquacious and inquisitive; they possess good memories and have repeeted to us the names capasities of the Vessels &c of maney traders and others who have visited the mouth of this river; they are generally low in Statue, proportionably Small, reather lighter complected and much more illy formed than the Indians of the Missouri and those of our fronteers; they are generally Chearfull but never gay.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In the case of a number of male individuals, one of the paired glands may as a result of this wandering remain in the pelvic cavity, or may be permanently located in the canal through which both glands must pass in their journey, or finally the canal itself may stay open permanently instead of growing together with the seminal glands after the change of position has taken place normally.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

District Deputy Grand Masters, which officers are also a modern invention of this country, seem to take the place in some degree of the Provincial Grand Masters of England, but they are not invested with the same prerogatives.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Military Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Air Force, National Gendarmerie, Presidential Guard Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 3,211,508 (1997 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Yet while the advance which the plan of President Bond marks over that of President Gowen may be recognized, its defects must also be observed.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

Pray, good master of mine, is not all this true?
— from Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"I ain't 'ad no borders about brekfus for 'The Pitcsher Gallery,' Miss," quoth Arabella in a rather high and mighty voice.
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan

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— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

[36] Justinus, who lived in the second century, made an epitome of the history of the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires, from Trogus Pompeius, who lived in the time of Augustus.
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney

Usa ka suliran nakasugnib nákù sa pagsulat kanímu ning pila ka púlung, A great problem goaded me to write you these few lines.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff