'If you please, partner,' said Wegg, rubbing his hands.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

rihtnes (e) f. ‘ rightness ,’ rectitude, equity , Ps : perpendicularity, straightness , WW : reckoning, account , MtL (e): (+) correction .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In Persian phrase, "Shall we receive good at the hand of God
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Besides open persecution, there is the constant, unceasing, paltry, petty persecuting spirit which refuses to trade with the heretic; which declines to eat with him; which will not employ him; which feels justified in slandering him; which seeks to set his wife’s mind against him, and to take away the affection of his children from him.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

“There are about 70,000 postoffices in the United States and an improved parcels post service would require an additional clerk in each.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

Turn where we will through these 370 pleasant pages, something worth reading is sure to meet the eye."— The Standard.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

SEASON'S BLOOM Creeping Phlox ( Phlox subulata ); white, rose, lavender; bloom April and May.
— from Gardening for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

Sam met his fate at Round Rock, July the twenty-first, They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied out his purse.
— from Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

Near the wooden image some red feathers were strewn, and a string of small pieces of polished pearl shells was regarded as the manava , or soul of the god.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams