The said King Edward endowed this chapel with lands to the yearly value of five hundred pounds.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

yes!" said Mrs. Francis; "it is well known that Mr. So-and-So keeps everything, except the Ten Commandments!"
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

118; Einenkel’s edition of St. Katherine , E. E. T. S. 80; the author’s ‘Metrische Randglossen’ , Engl.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

A dry, cracked soil under an ardent sun, thin animals eating greedily at poor tufts of scanty vegetation, cactus used as field fences as well as inclosing the miserable ranchos , cactus with twisted trunks that look like enormous snakes about to strike, immense 56 cactus candelabras of ten or fifteen branches, a few poor chickens picking at the sterile soil about the ranchos by day and roosting by night in the rare scraggly trees, scores of hungry-looking goats browsing on nothing, yet somehow keeping energy enough to gambol about a scene usually devoid of any form of unnecessary activity, a few almost leafless scrub trees on which hang rags of raw meat sun-drying into charqui , or, as they call it in southeastern South America, tasajo —these make up the background of almost any picture of Santiago.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Bunyan's account of the Holy War is indeed an extraordinary book, manifesting a degree of genius, research, and spiritual knowledge, exceeding even that displayed in the 'Pilgrim's Progress.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

“And if the White Moll happens to know Gypsy Nan, as she knows everybody else through her jellies and custards and fake charity, and happens to be near here when she gets into trouble, and beats it for here with the police on her heels, and asks for help, what do you expect Gypsy Nan's going to do if she wants to stand any chance of sticking around these parts—as Gypsy Nan?”
— from The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

While we are on the subject of panelling, it may be worth while to point out that with regard to old English work of this date, one may safely take it for granted that where, as in the South Kensington (Exeter) example, the pilasters, frieze, and frame-work are enriched, and the panels plain, the work was designed and made for the house, but, when the panels are carved and the rest plain, they were bought, and then fitted up by the local carpenter.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield