reconnaître , savoir qu'une personne ou une chose est la même; se montrer reconnaissant de; comprendre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

They are at liberty to accept or reject ministrations intended for their benefit; and so they will accept or reject in accord with their penitent or unregenerate condition, even as is the case with those whom the Gospel message reaches in mortality.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

Sell peck of us corn en get it in trade.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"The Honourable Tom Ferrol, of Stavely Castle, County Galway, Ireland, bachelor, and Christine Marie Lavilette, of the Township of Bonaventure, in the Province of Lower Canada, spinster, Are hereby granted," etc., etc., etc., "according to the laws of the Province of Upper Canada," etc., etc., etc.
— from The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

I was by this time too weak to reply; and could only hope that they would pull on until close enough to see us; to my inexpressible horror, however, when some seven or eight lengths away, the boat’s head swerved sharply aside, and the craft darted off upon a course at right angles to her former one.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

But, the refugees and disbanded soldiers, who formed the pioneers of Upper Canada, enjoyed not even ordinary advantages.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

All of the old animal instincts (which were all right in their place, and quite necessary for the well-being of the lower forms of life) have left traces in this part of the mind, which traces are apt to come to the front under pressure of unusual circumstances, even long after we think we have outgrown them.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

In the year 1793, in which Congress provided for the rendition by the Northern states of fugitives from labor, the first parliament of Upper Canada enacted a [191] law against the importation of slaves, and incorporated in it a clause to the effect that children of slaves then held were to become free at the age of twenty-five years.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Being possessed of unlimited confidence, exceptional strength and a light-hearted determination to make something of life, Roger was successful from the start.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

“I doubt if even the pair of us could ever get him to Two Rivers,” Dick returned doubtfully.
— from The Pirate of Jasper Peak by Cornelia Meigs

Besides, it is surely a piece of undiluted Cockney egoism to suppose that the only persons who do their duty by the Empire are Londoners.
— from The Quest of the Simple Life by W. J. (William James) Dawson