This notion having, as I said, prevailed with the people in that part of the town, was in part the occasion, as I said before, that they had recourse to ships for their retreat; and where they did this early and with prudence, furnishing themselves so with provisions that they had no need to go on shore for supplies or suffer boats to come on board to bring them,—I say, where they did so they had certainly the safest retreat of any people whatsoever; but the distress was such that people ran on board, in their fright, without bread to eat, and some into ships that had no men on board to remove them farther off, or to take the boat and go down the river to buy provisions where it might be done safely, and these often suffered and were infected on board as much as on shore.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

I, Patrick Riley, of Boston, in the said county, counsellor at law, having been duly sworn, depose and say, that I am, and have been, for fourteen years past, the principal deputy of the United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts.
— from Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis

Confronting this gap, on the plateau behind the Meurthe, between Luneville and St. Die, with advanced posts about Ramberville, and a strong wide-stretching cordon of cavalry still further forward, the Third German Army, consisting of the 13th Würtemberg, and 1st 65 and 2d Bavarian Army Corps, under the command of Leopold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, is to take up its position.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore

He was offered honours and revenues, but preferred to seek the pleasant retirement of Bruttii in the land which his exertions had freed from the terror of the stranger.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

On the 4th, when the people removed our beds in the morning, a scorpion sallied furiously forth.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

When they have reaped the sorgho, the millet, exposed to the rays of the sun, ripens in its turn; they plant rows of beans in the midst of their maize fields, and the former ripens before the latter, of slower growth, is big enough to choke them.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

Even Mr. Herbert Spencer, the prophet of individualism, has never taken exception to our gross disregard of the proprietary rights of bees in their honey, or of silkworms in their cocoons.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

Henry, Patrick, resolutions offered by, in the Virginia assembly, in relation to the stamp-act, i. 327; Washington present at the debate on the resolutions offered by, i. 329; the friends of the resolutions of, re-elected, i. 331; Washington's journey to the first and second continental Congresses in company with, i. 417, 528; powerful speech of, at the opening of the first continental Congress, i. 423; his opinion of Washington and Rutledge, i. 450; resolutions offered by, at the second Virginia convention, i. 477; payment for the powder seized by Lord Dunmore, obtained by, i. 519; predictions of, on the subject of independence, ii. 200; letter of Washington to, revealing the weakness of his army, ii. 578; anonymous letter received by, from the Conway Cabal , ii.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Grant me then a right to plead for a practical recognition of Borrow in the city that he loved most, although he sometimes scolded it as it often scolded him.
— from Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter