PANNEL, pad, or rough kind of saddle.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Alas, not yet: rearward still presses on; rearward knows little what pressure is in the front.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He proceeded: "Consider whether you think it equitable to support by means of a general fund the ships' companies which we so impress, while they wait here for our benefit, and to agree upon a fare, on the principle of repaying kindnesses in kind."
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

To which purpose I shall here insert a problem of that very ingenious and studious promoter of real knowledge, the learned and worthy Mr. Molineux, which he was pleased to send me in a letter some months since; and it is this:—“Suppose a man BORN blind, and now adult, and taught by his TOUCH to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The physics, both of the Academy and the Lycæum, as they are built, not on observation, but on argument, have retarded the progress of real knowledge.
— 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

For instance, one of them made a regular practice of reading Karamzin, another of conning the Moscow Gazette, and a third of never looking at a book at all.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

‘I was there,’ resumed Mrs. Cluppins, ‘unbeknown to Mrs. Bardell; I had been out with a little basket, gentlemen, to buy three pound of red kidney pertaties, which was three pound tuppence ha’penny, when I see Mrs. Bardell’s street door on the jar.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damn’d fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out, That I essentially am not in madness,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The minimum of grammatical subject, of objective presence, of reality known about, the mere beginning of knowledge, must be named by the word that says the least.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This conviction too was strengthened by the sad fact, that that very morning the dead body of a man, whom we all knew well, had been found in the road frozen to death, not more page 58 p. 58 than one hundred and fifty yards from a small hamlet in the parish of Ratlinghope, known as “The Bridges.”
— from A Night in the Snow or, A Struggle for Life by E. Donald (Edmund Donald) Carr

It was in the Academia that he sought to establish that immortal line of living words, who should speak as the possessors of real knowledge upon justice, truth, and goodness.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Having found the horses at the place where they were lying, my lord and Father Holt rode together to Chatteris, where they had temporary refuge with one of the father's penitents in that city; but the pursuit being hot for them, and the reward for the apprehension of one or the other considerable, it was deemed advisable that they should separate; and the priest betook himself to other places of retreat known to him, whilst my lord passed over from Bristol into Ireland, in which kingdom King James had a Court and an army.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the following year the Observer published a protest of Rev. Kitz, censuring the Platform for granting toleration to believers in baptismal regeneration and the real presence.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Pearl one row, Knit one row, white.
— from My Knitting Book by Miss (F.) Lambert

On every hundredth tie that we send down I am to mark 100, 200, 300 and so forth, according to the count, using a piece of red keel for the purpose.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

Ox tail braisé Coffee Noodles Polonaise Cole slaw, 1,000 Island dressing Lemon custard pie Coffee DINNER Purée of red kidney beans Radishes Fillet of halibut, Bristol Sweetbreads braisé, Zurich New peas, au cerfeuil Julienne potatoes Roast chicken, au jus Lettuce and grapefruit salad Savarin Mirabelle Coffee Ox tail braisé.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

He saw upon the walls the portraits of Benjamin Constant, General Foy, and the seventeen illustrious orators of the Left, interspersed with caricatures at the expense of the Government; but he looked more particularly at the door of the sanctuary where, no doubt, the paper was elaborated, the witty paper that amused him daily, and enjoyed the privilege of ridiculing kings and the most portentous events, of calling anything and everything in question with a jest.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac