In this our herb, I shall give the pattern of a ruler, the sons of art rough cast, yet as near the truth as the men of Benjamin could throw a stone: Whereby, my brethren, the astrologers may know by a penny how a shilling is coined: As for the college of physicians, they are too stately to college or too proud to continue.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

People congratulated Mrs. Honeychurch, which is, I believe, a social blunder, but it pleased her, and she introduced Cecil rather indiscriminately to some stuffy dowagers.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Some of these persons have already succeeded in cutting down all our whipping-posts, thereby destroying the cheapest and best mode of punishing a particular class of crimes that was ever intended or practised.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

participate (par-tis'i-pat), have a share in common with others; to take part.
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

"Good morning, Uncle Mike," said Frank, politely accepting the Irishman's proffered hand and shaking it cordially.
— from Frank, the Young Naturalist by Harry Castlemon

This Elixer is temperately hot and moist, Digestive, Lenitive, Dissolutive, Aperative, Strengthening and Glutinative; it opens obstructions, proves Hypnotick and Styptick, is Cardiack, and may become Alexpharmick.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

Character, poetry, philosophy, humour, and suggestion it contains; but it contains no single scene in which its persons can amply put forth their full histrionic powers with essentially positive dramatic effect.
— from Shadows of the Stage by William Winter

He pictured her as sunk, in Continental abysses, beyond all possibility of resurgence.
— from The Helpmate by May Sinclair

but I disdain The nauseous task to paint her as she is, Cruel, abandoned, glorying in her shame.
— from The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper

Then the mother marked out lines on the ground, from one to the other of which it was to practise hopping, and soon it could hop beautifully so long as its mother was there to say every moment, "How beautifully you hop!"
— from Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"Us be in de house at night, peepin' out de window or pigeon hole and see Indians comin'.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration