Of the tracts produced [l] in this controversy the two most important are Harsnet’s Discovery of the Fraudulent Practises of John Darrel , [64] 1599, and Darrel’s True Narration of the Strange and Grevous Vexation by the Devil of 7 Persons in Lancashire and William Somers of Nottingham , ... 1600.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

———— A true Narration of that strange and grevous Vexation by the Devil of seven Persons in Lancashire and William Somers of Nottingham. —— 1600.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Mr. Bennett is leaving Warwick for a better post in London, and we shall be at our wits’ end to get the girls good music-lessons for next term.”
— from The School Queens by L. T. Meade

Cave hominem unius libri , says the adage, and we may apply it, not only to the man of one book, but also to the man of one idea, in whom the sense of proportion is lacking, and who sees only that for which he looks.
— from Myths and Dreams by Edward Clodd

When you rub gypsum across a streak plate, it leaves a white streak.
— from Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide by Roselle M. Girard

Even an Aku Moslem, who read his Koran, printed in Leipzig, and who should have known better, had mimicked Europeans in this most unbecoming fashion.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Slowly the little car pulled itself like a weary swimmer toward the firm bank.
— from Young Readers Science Fiction Stories by Richard M. (Richard Mace) Elam

When Captain Bennydeck and Sydney Westerfield passed each other as strangers, in the hall of the hotel, that letter had been posted in London a week since.
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

Here I sit thinking and planning for his future, like an old woman who after many long years is told that a friend of her youth has thriven and prospered in life, and who says: "He has well deserved it; his character was noble and generous; I knew him well when I was young!"
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

‘A True Relation of the Strange and Grevovs Vexation by the Devil of 7 Persons in Lancashire, and William Somers of Nottingham.’
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton