That from the time they entred upon this Country to this very day, that is, Seventeen Years, they have remitted many Ships fraighted with Indians to be sold as Slaves to the Isles of St. Martha, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and St. John , selling a Million of Persons at the least, I speak modestly, and still do expose to Sale to this very Year of our Lord 1542, the King's Council in this Island seeing and knowing it, yet what they find to be manifest and apparent they connive at, permit and countenance, and wink at the horrid Impieties and Devastations innumerable which are committed on the Coasts of this Continent, extending Four Hundred Miles in Length, and continues still together with Venecuela and St. Martha under their Jurisdiction, which they might easily have remedied and timely prevented.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Unfortunately, the road she now travelled was the same which only ten days ago she had so happily passed along in going to and from Woodston; and, for fourteen miles, every bitter feeling was rendered more severe by the review of objects on which she had first looked under impressions so different.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

After first distinctly ascertaining from Sir Percival that Mrs. Rubelle was certain to leave at once if I took her place, and after also obtaining permission to arrange for Mr. Dawson's resuming his attendance on his patient, I willingly consented to remain at Blackwater Park until Miss Halcombe no longer required my services.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

This royal menagerie still existed in the reigns of Charles VIII.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Commands following.." S0=0 No automatic answer +C0 No automatic speed detection (fixed speed) S7=40 Wait 40 seconds for an answer tone from the remote modem. S9=4
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

[A; a] tie two ends together, add a span or length to s.t. Aku ray musugpung sa hayhayan nga nabugtù, I’ll tie the clothesline that snapped back together.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In answer to this request, Motecusuma said that he would forward the necessary orders for this purpose to every township; but he was compelled to inform us that many of them would be unable to fulfil those commands, who could merely contribute some trifling trinkets in gold which they had inherited from their forefathers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

787 "I have reserved me seven thousand."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Robert Molyneux sat with his head bent almost to his knees, and his hands clenched.
— from An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

Even in the hours of my greatest triumphs my soul shuddered at the thought of the grim spectre hidden away in the past; and I wished that death would come and relieve my sufferings.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

And with this high resolve Marguerite set forth to break the sad news to her worldly-minded mother.
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

‘Reproach me, sir, or I’ll do myself an injury.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Evidently she was an inmate of the establishment; and conceiving that my duty was done when I had noted the number of the house, I retraced my steps to the corner; and, hailing a taxicab, returned to the Cafe Dame.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

When we turn to the second group of the seven epistles, we at once breathe a different atmosphere; and the contrast is rendered more striking by the fact that in the first of the four we have the very sins spoken of which have already twice crossed our path in the epistles to Ephesus and to Pergamum.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation by William Milligan

“The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. William Dean Howells Author [ Pg vii] ILLUSTRATIONS “CAN’T YOU RENDER ME SOME ASSISTANCE?”
— from Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various

Coming on this road, one gets the best conception of the really magnificent situation of Tunbridge Wells, and cannot wonder that it has gained such popularity.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

“Well, raise my salary, then,” I said.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt