* I take so large a command for the purpose of thoroughly searching each ravine, valley, and mountain peak for insurgents and for food, expecting to destroy everything I find outside of town .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Consider the matter wisely, dispassionately, intelligently, dear; then if by April you simply can't stand it—talk the thing over with me again,” she ended rather vaguely and wistfully; for it had been her heart's desire to wed Sylvia's beauty and Quarrier's fortune, and the suitability of the one for the other was apparent enough to make even sterner moralists wobbly in their creed.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

On large stationary engines rotary valves and other forms, such as are used on the Corliss engine, have come into common use; but they are too complicated for a farm engine, which must be as simple as possible, with least possible liability of getting out of order.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

[697] He says elsewhere regarding vows: “All things are, it is true, free to us, but by means of vows we can offer them all up out of love; when this has once taken place, then they are necessary, not by their nature but on account of the vow which has been taken voluntarily.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Scarron expressed the following wish:— Que le Seigneur en récompense Veuille augmenter votre finance...
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

Merz, Dr., “Bericht über seine erste Reise von Amoy nach Kui-kiang,” in Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin , xxiii. (1888).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer