The acute stage of controversy over West Indian trade was not reached until some thirty years after American Independence, but the uncertainty of such trade during a [V1:pg 18] long period in which a portion of it consisted in unauthorized and unregulated exchange was a constant irritant to all parties concerned.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

For we have a sapient practice (and I never saw the contrary round about our parts, I mean), of keeping all rooms underground, so that you step down to them.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

“I have never forgotten the service you rendered us,” said the young girl; “but why recall those times?
— from Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid

38:8 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

I shall now inquire, whether they were better instructed in the length of that measure, which, after the Saracen conquest, was introduced into the Nilometer, of Geeza, where it has remained unaltered since the year 245?
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

She really believed the class in politeness rather unnecessary, since the young ladies came from homes where they learned from babyhood all that they would need to know.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North

A rock which thins as it rises up, so that you can sit a-straddle on almost any
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge