He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported, “he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;” neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Quoth she, 'That do I promise and will gladly perform; nor could aught betide that would afford me such content as to see my husband free and unharmed and Tedaldo alive.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Quit them all, while there is time and opportunity!' 'She will be persuaded now,' cried the young lady.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

pukang n child’s word for female genitalia.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

= KEY: Clean \adj.\. SYN: Pure, neat, cleanly, clear, purified, cleansed, untarnished, spotless, unclogged, upright.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I said, I had had a good lady, in my master's mother, who had spared no pains nor cost to improve me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

According to Ansart, these were Prote, now Prodano, and Sphagia, formerly Sphacteria, before Pylos, now called Zonchio, or Old Navarino; the third being perhaps the isle of Bechli, in the Bay of Navarino.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

These words he spake in fervency of spirit against the superstitious religion of Rome; wherefore parson Newall caused him forthwith to be attached, and set in the stocks in a cage, where he was kept till Sir Henry Doile, a justice, came to Hadley.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But no one who hath considered the properties of bodies in general, or this sort in particular, can doubt that this, called GOLD, has infinite other properties not contained in that complex idea.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Maîtriser aussi bien Director, Photoshop et Cubase, pour ne citer que les plus connus, c'était possible il y a dix ans, avec les versions 1.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

John Penn North Carolina.
— from America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D. by Benjamin Franklin Bowen

But his plan embraced three features: a cavalry movement under Stoneman towards Richmond, from the Upper Rappahannock, to destroy Lee's communications, burning bridges and supplies; the deploy of a portion of the army down the river to attract Lee's attention; and, lastly, a sudden march of the main body up the river, to gain a position near Chancellorsville, southwest of Fredericksburg, which would compel Lee to come out and fight, or evacuate the place.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

A vague impression of the character of the man with whom he had to do—no definite perception, no clear insight into his character, but a sort of instinct, which seemed given to him on a sudden for his preservation—took possession of Gaston of Anjou.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

" SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NEW NOVEL A supplement published with the present Number, contains an outline of of the Novel of Anne of Geierstein, OR THE MAID OF THE MIST; With Unique Extracts, &c. LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE Following Novels is already Published: s. d. Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 Paul and Virginia 0 6 The Castle of Otranto 0 6 Almoran and Hamet 0 6 Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 Rasselas 0 8 The Old English Baron 0 8 Nature and Art 0 8 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 Sicilian Romance 1 0 The Man of the World 1 0 A Simple Story 1 4 Joseph Andrews 1 6 Humphry Clinker 1 8 The Romance of the Forest 1 8 The Italian 2 0 Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 6 Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 6 Roderick Random 2 6 The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6 Peregrine Pickle 4 6 Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 by Various

In her company also came the worthy minister and doctor of medicine, Mr. Russ, formerly of Wells, but now settled at a plantation near Cocheco.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal, and Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier