“But how can we meet with her?” cried he; “you will not choose to go into the pit yourself; I cannot send a servant there; and it is impossible for me to go and leave you alone.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

pá n k.o. tiny ant, smaller than the utitud , pale yellow in color and does not bite, found swarming over food.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And if it were possible to conceive its modus and process, yet it could not be known from its cause, as being, next to God, the cause of causes, and itself without a cause.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Ho, my friend, soft and fair, speak at leisure and soberly without putting yourself in choler.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It is strange, that a philosophic and foreign heresy should have penetrated so rapidly into the African provinces; yet I cannot easily reject the edict of Diocletian against the Manichaeans, which may be found in Baronius.
— 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

Of these varieties, the Mattari, a hard and regular bean, pale yellow in color, commands the highest price, with the Yaffey a close second.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never plucked yet, I can assure you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You will receive herewith the orders of the President of the United States, placing you in command of the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I am not fully persuaded, yet I consider myself as liable to mistakes as I can think thee, and know that this book must stand or fall with thee, not by any opinion I have of it, but thy own.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

'We won't argue about the price and I'll pay you in cash.'
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

If you come with us, to carry our loads and canoes, we will pay you in cowrie shells and beads, brass rods and cloth."
— from The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson

For effectual action, responsibility should be centred if possible in the hands of one individual, or at all events not equally divided between a dozen or more participants; yet in counties where the system of superintending constables obtained, there was no uniformity or general plan, but the officer of each petty sessional division took his own line, and as long as he put in an appearance at the Sessions, and visited the various parishes of his district once a fortnight, no one interfered with him, or directed his method.
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee

The other counties have similar organizations, but smaller; and all are required to spend at least three days per year in camp, for drill and review."
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Indeed, while it would be wrong to say that the recitations were perfect , yet it can truly be affirmed that they were highly creditable, and compared well with the examinations of our white institutions.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 08, August, 1878 by Various

If simplicity pleases you, I certainly take no delight in disguise and circumlocution.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

We have already decided to put you in command of the girls, because we can then expect some real good stand-bying in case of Scout trouble or excitement.
— from Phyllis by Maria Thompson Daviess

Warbles ain't the man I would put you in charge of if I had my way.
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 1 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Surely this is a poet that has got an inkling, in some way, of the new idea of an experimental philosophy ,—of a combination of the human faculties of sense and reason in some organum; one, too, whose eye passes lightly over the architectonic gifts of univalves and bivalves , and entomological developments of skill and forethought, intent on that great chrysalis, which has never been able to publish yet its Creator's glory.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

Although he was poor, yet, in consequence of the reputation which he had acquired, he married a rich wife at Chalcedon, and acquired the surname of the Chalcedonian.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo