Over the high table in the hall are the portraits of the three founders; Madame Bodichon is represented painting, reminding each generation of students that one of their founders was a distinguished and delightful artist.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

A common Sore Throat, if the Patient recovers, either goes off by Resolution, or suppurates, or becomes hard and scirrhous.
— from An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers A Disease Which Hath of Late Years Appeared in This City, and in Several Parts of the Nation by John Fothergill

The public regarded Esther Gabel, one of the queen's waiting-women, as Struensee's mistress.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

[101] It was the Republicans who framed the original constitution of the State so as to give women liberal property rights, equal guardianship of their children, and school suffrage.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

If the poor rascal ever gets over that mauling, he’ll deserve to.
— from A Sister to Evangeline Being the Story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand Pré by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

In the earliest period, records either geological or historical are wholly wanting; in the later periods they become both more numerous and more varied in proportion as they approach nearer and nearer to our own time.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen