Some little rain, purchased two fine horses & took a Vocabiliary of the language litened our loads & packed up, rained contd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

paghi-, pagka- upon reaching consciousness.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

True, for the daughter’s sake, the father was for a while deferred to, and thus peace was maintained; but this lasted only until the time when there arrived, on a visit to the General, two kinswomen of his—the Countess Bordirev and the Princess Uziakin, retired Court dames, but ladies who still kept up a certain connection with Court circles, and therefore were much fawned upon by their host.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Prick holes all along the lines of the pattern, at exactly the same distance from each other, remove the tracing and tack the black paper upon rather coarse linen.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The Chronicle of Marcellinus speaks too strongly partem urbis Romae cremavit; and the words of Philostorgius (l. xii.
— 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

488. comment, criticize, kibitz; pass under review &c. (examine) 457; investigate &c. (inquire) 461. hold the scales, sit in judgment; try judgment, hear a cause.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

decision, determination, resolve; fixed set purpose, settled purpose; ultimatum; resolution &c. 604; wish &c. 865; arriere pensee[Fr]; motive &c. 615.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In France, three thousand miles away from home, with their army pay uncertain, ready cash meant much to our doughboys.
— from The Khaki Boys over the Top; Or, Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam by Gordon Bates

Mink and marten reported plentiful up Robinson Creek.
— from Members of the Family by Owen Wister

Quacks having nostrums and injurious patent medicines to sell often prey upon rural communities in which there is no adequate provision for doctors, nurses, and hospitals.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

The most practical eugenists of our age are the men who are solving the problems of living in the country and thus keeping more and better people under rural conditions where their families will survive."
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

"Play up, Rovers," cried an enthusiast in a chocolate and blue necktie.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

I could sit and gravely cast up sums in great Books, or compare sum with sum, and write PAID against this and UNP'D against t'other, and yet reserve in some "corner of my mind" some darling thoughts all my own—faint memory of some passage in a Book—or the tone of an absent friend's Voice—a snatch of Miss Burrell's singing—a gleam of Fanny Kelly's divine plain face—The two operations might be going on at the same time without thwarting, as the sun's two motions (earth's I mean), or as I sometimes turn round till I am giddy, in my back parlour, while my sister is walking longitudinally in the front—or as the shoulder of veal twists round with the spit, while the smoke wreathes up the chimney—but there are a set of amateurs of the Belle Lettres—the gay science—who come to me as a sort of rendezvous, putting questions of criticism, of British Institutions, Lalla Rooks &c., what Coleridge said at the Lecture last night—who have the form of reading men, but, for any possible use Reading can be to them but to talk of, might as well have been Ante-Cadmeans born, or have lain sucking out the sense of an Egypt'n.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

Concerning the expression Boutmy says:—“ C’est sans doute par une reminiscence classique qu’on a emprunté ironiquement, pour désigner ce genre de discours, l’un des noms de la sage Minerve, déesse de l’éloquence. ”
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

Like the Curé of N., he presumed us Roman Catholic, asked us if England were not rapidly coming into the light, and commented upon the "conversion" of Queen Victoria shortly before her death.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day