77 Nullum igitur vitium taetrius est, ut eo, unde egressa est, referat se oratio, quam avaritia, praesertim in principibus et rem publicam gubernantibus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

After leaving Guilford the road runs down close by the shore, and keeps its position in passing East River and Madison.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various

Samuel Agard, Daniel Bartholomew, Silas Bates, John Bray, David Brown, Solomon Carrington, John Curtis, John Dutton, [Pg ii.182] Daniel Freeman, Gad Fuller, Abel Hart, Jason Hart, Timothy Isham, Azariah Lothrop, John Moody, Timothy Percival, Isaac Potter, Elijah Rose, Elijah Stanton, Benjamin Tubbs, Abraham Yarrington, Jesse Roberts, Privates.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

The Mouth of the Mackenzie by the Light of the Midnight Sun Captain Meriwether Lewis Captain William Clark Tracking up Stream Typical Mountain Trapper The Discovery of the Great Falls Fighting a Grizzly Packer carrying Goods across Portage Spying on Enemy's Fort Indian Camp at Foothills of Rockies On Guard Indians of the Up-country or Pays d'en Haut PART I PIERRE ESPRIT RADISSON ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST WHITE MAN TO EXPLORE THE WEST, THE NORTHWEST, AND THE NORTH [Illustration: Map of the Great Fur Company.]
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

During Mrs. Fletcher’s life, I waved my claim in her favour: but after her decease, I applied to the p. 83 vicar, and now that it has been put into pretty extensive repair, we have taken up our abode in it, and a most holy happy spot we do indeed find it.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

‘The proposition is perhaps excessive,’ replied Challoner; ‘for hitherto I own I have regarded it as of all dirty, sneaking, and ungentlemanly trades, the least and lowest.’
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

The other member of the party was the veteran European correspondent and representative of the Associated Press in Paris, Elmer Roberts, who would not be doing his duty to Melville E. Stone if he did not arrange for opportunities of this kind.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer