"If I," said he, "under such circumstances could encounter and overcome this task, is there, can there be in the whole world, a youth to find any excuse for its non-performance?" Humphrey Davy had but a slender chance to acquire great scientific knowledge, yet he had true mettle in him, and he made even old pans, kettles, and bottles contribute to his success, as he experimented and studied in the attic of the apothecary-store where he worked.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

SYN: Impose, burden, load, shackle, clog, charge, encumber.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There are wild cattle in that country [almost] as big as elephants, splendid creatures, covered everywhere but on the back with shaggy hair a good four palms long.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[73] que no son sencillamente españoles, sino que a más de serlo, [74] se combinan con el sentir, el discurrir y el imaginar del indio bravo, concebidos, no ya por mera observación externa, sino por atavismo del sentido íntimo, y controversión en su profundidad, donde quien sabe penetrar lo suficiente, ya descubre al ángel, aunque él esté empecatado, ya descubre a la alimaña montaraz, aunque él sea suave y culto.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In his circular letters, which were addressed to the several cities, Constantine employed against the heretics the arms of ridicule and comic raillery.]
— 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

And she could change everybody else, but him, she could not change him——" Brangwen could not understand.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

La conversation route sur cela , cela en est le sujet.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The Syrian bishop deplores the misfortunes of Cælestian, who, from the state of a noble and opulent senator of Carthage, was reduced, with his wife and family, and servants, to beg his bread in a foreign country; but he applauds the resignation of the Christian exile, and the philosophic temper, which, under the pressure of such calamities, could enjoy more real happiness than was the ordinary lot of wealth and prosperity.
— 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

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.)
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Their doublet was of cloth of gold, of cloth of silver, of velvet, satin, damask, taffeties, &c., of the same colours, cut, embroidered, and suitably trimmed up in perfection.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

No one who looks at the Web can doubt the power of distributed, and frequently uncompensated, creativity in constructing remarkable reference works, operating systems, cultural conversations, even libraries of images and music.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

Wauchope's Writers of South Carolina contains excellent studies of Timrod, Hayne, Simms and other writers of the Palmetto state.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The gases pass from this space horizontally to a second combustion chamber E from which they are led through arches F to the boiler.
— from Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company

He appears to have had a considerable acquaintance with the language, and has left some curious conversations en langage sauvage et Français , in which he gives some grammatical rules.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Daily News (London):—Again British arms successfully came contact enemy locating position number with great exactness early morning two companies mounted infantry under Major Jones pushed just as sun tinging kopjes with ruby light saw kopje front which from indications appeared be held enemy opening into skirmishing order small force advanced till within rifle range when enemy opened heavy fire Major Jones having found what he wanted immediately ordered retirement of force without replying to enemys fire our loss man wounded six horses enemys loss unknown but must be enormous value of horses wounded about £150.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree by Louis Creswicke