Its windows exhibited, in addition to a scattering of white clay pipes, and papers of pins suspended open against the panes for the public inspection, a display of circular discs of gingerbread, some with plain, some with scalloped edge; also hearts, fishes, little prancing ponies, parrots and dogs of the same tawny-hued material; also endwise in tumblers and other glass vessels, numerous lengths or stems of prepared saccharine matter, brittle in substance, white-looking, but streaked and slightly penetrated with some rich crimson pigment; likewise on plates and oval dishes, a collection of quadrangular viscous lumps, buff-coloured and clammy, each showing at its ends the bold gashing cut of a stout knife which must have been used in dividing a rope, as it were, of the tenacious substance into inch-sections or parts.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Snaffle , conversation on professional or private subjects which the rest of the company cannot appreciate.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

In like manner, the Tokugawa Sh[=o]guns (1604-1868) determined to so limit the supply of mental food, that the mind of Japan should be of those correctly dwarfed proportions of puniness, so admired by lovers of artificiality and unconscious caricature.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Adams could not pretend that mediæval society proved evolution; the Professor of Physics smiled at evolution.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The name of the rebel was John; he filled the confidential office of Primicerius, or principal secretary, and history has attributed to his character more virtues, than can easily be reconciled with the violation of the most sacred duty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The very word "atheist" was at that day sufficient to put the man to whom it was applied beyond the pale of polite society, and Pope, who quite lacked the ability to refute in logical argument the attack of de Crousaz, was proportionately delighted when Warburton came forward in his defense, and in a series of letters asserted that Pope's whole intention was to vindicate the ways of God to man, and that de Crousaz had mistaken his purpose and misunderstood his language.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

In an arched recess are shelves containing books and piles of pamphlets, speeches and essays of Stuart Mill, Wendell Phillips, Higginson, Curtis.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Some tyranny, personal or political, suddenly debars him from the home; and he has to take his meals in the front garden.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Now, would you sign that letter and date it, sign the piece of paper somewhere down there near the bottom and date it, and would you sign over here on Exhibit 5013, the point where I identified the document, would you write, sign your name, and date it?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Successive migrations finally brought the Cheyenne to the headwaters of the Cheyenne River in the southwestern part of present South Dakota.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

And likewise for the practice of archery: Set hert and eye uppon the pile or pale, Shoot nyghe or onne; and if so be thou ride On horse, is eck [456] the bowis bigge up hale, Smyte in the face, or breste, or back or side, Compelle to fle, or falle, yf that he bide.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

[Illustration] The colonel, Fitz, and the English agent were still in their rooms,—three pairs of polished shoes outside their several doors bearing silent witness to the fact,—and the only person stirring was a pleasant-faced negro woman with white apron and gay-colored bandana, who was polishing the parlor floor with a long brush, her little pickaninny astraddle on the broom end for weight.
— from Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Francis Hopkinson Smith

Salette, La , a French village amid Alpine scenery, 28 m. SE. of Grenoble; has become a place of pilgrimage, since the alleged appearance of the Virgin to two peasant children on 19th September 1846.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Take two ounces of bread-crumbs, the same of grated Parmesan cheese, an ounce of butter, a pinch of pepper, salt, and nutmeg, and the yolks of three eggs; mix all well together and send to the oven; when beginning to color, break on top of this mixture eight eggs, sprinkle some grated Parmesan cheese on top, and, when the eggs are done, serve immediately.
— from French Dishes for American Tables by Caron, Pierre, active 1886-1899

I am dear General, your most obedient humble servant, Yours &c. P.S. Injustice to Major Mitchell and Captain Muir, who were taken at Petersburg, I have the honor to inform your Excellency that they had been sent to that place on public service.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de