Now we have scarcely any village games or sports, except when some energetic rector or curate starts a cricket club.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

This man had for years had the charge, as the confidential servant of the Archbishop, of the public and even the private funds which his master required for his stately palaces, his luxury, and his sensual enjoyments, refined or coarse, legitimate or illegitimate; and had actually lent him large sums.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

It is very favourable to the gentler, charitable, and social virtues, and, where slavery does not exist, to the industrial virtues, and it is the especial nurse of the intellectual virtues; but it is in general not equally favourable to the production of self-sacrifice, enthusiasm, reverence, or chastity.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

LAWS, STATUTES, ETC. Reports of cases determined in the District Courts of Appeal of the State of California.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Supposed Evil Results of Close Interbreeding.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

Slaves, conditions of life, 210 ; faithful during war, 277 ; emancipation to be proclaimed, 302 ; Davis offers emancipation of, in effort to secure European recognition of Confederacy, 323 ; offered freedom to fight, 325 .
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd

Clara fetched the others out of school, except Rupy of course--he doesn't go--" "Good heavens!
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

"Epanorthosis, or Correction, is when the speaker either recalls or corrects what he had last said."— Ib.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown