I was wont to pity the clumsy Irish laborers who cut ice on the pond, in such mean and ragged clothes, while I shivered in my more tidy and somewhat more fashionable garments, till, one bitter cold day, one who had slipped into the water came to my house to warm him, and I saw him strip off three pairs of pants and two pairs of stockings ere he got down to the skin, though they were dirty and ragged enough, it is true, and that he could afford to refuse the extra garments which I offered him, he had so many intra ones.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

This injunction, from the deficiency of the qualities requisite at such a juncture in his own sons, met a ready compliance.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If the reason of the thing had not spoken loudly enough, the miserable examples of the several administrations constructed upon the idea of systematic discord would be enough to frighten them from such, monstrous and ruinous conjunctions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

One Sunday morning, as Rawdon Crawley, his little son, and the pony were taking their accustomed walk in the park, they passed by an old acquaintance of the Colonel's, Corporal Clink, of the regiment, who was in conversation with a friend, an old gentleman, who held a boy in his arms about the age of little Rawdon.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I'll be sure and wear the nice flannels you sent, Marmee, and read carefully the books father has marked.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

== spelc spild m. annihilation, ruin , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

On the principles of sympathetic magic a real connexion continues to subsist between the food whic
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In the later ages of Bramanism the number went on increasing without measure by successive mythical and religious creations which peopled the Indian Olympus with abstract beings of every kind.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

This must have been the actual number at the beginning of the Vedic religion gradually increased by successive mythical and religious creations till the Indian Pantheon was crowded with abstractions of every kind.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Take of Roses, Violets, Wormwood, Colocynthis, Turbith, Cubebs, Calamus Aromaticus, Nutmegs, Indian Spikenard, Epithimum, Carpobalsamum, or instead thereof, Cardamoms, Xylabalsamum, or Wood of Aloes, the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort, Rue, Annis, Fennel and Smallage, Schænanthus, Mastich, Asarabacca roots, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea, Saffron, Mace, of each two drams, Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebuls, Indian Bellerick, and Emblick, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, Agarick, Sena, of each five drams, Aloes Succotrina, the weight of them all: with Syrup of the juice of Fennel make it into a mass according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Stephen made a rapid calculation.
— from The House by the River by A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert

'The Age' soon mustered a Roman courage in the cause of the diggers, and jumped the claims both of The Herald and 'The Argus'; and though the 'own correspondent,' under the head of Ballaarat, be such a dry, soapy concern that will neither blubber nor blather, yet 'The Age' remained the diggers' paper.
— from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

A hundred persons—yes, two or three hundred—come in here every day, spend money and receive change.
— from The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele

In her stiff silks and costly caps, she presided at every dinner, reception, and party given at home, as conscientiously as, in her sables and demure velvet bonnet, she made and returned calls in the season.
— from Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

sic mons Aonius rubuit, cum Penthea ferrent Maenades aut subito mutatum Actaeona cornu traderet insanis Latonia visa Molossis.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

I think I could scarcely make a respectable curtsey to them.
— from A Noble Name; or, Dönninghausen by Claire von Glümer

A more perilous amendment was one proposed to another clause by Mr. Rolle, enacting that if the Regent should marry a Roman Catholic his authority should cease.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

Democrats, republicans, prohibitionists, saloon men and religious circles, all were gathered into one harmonious body and inspired with a single idea, that of defeating the mayor.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

For some minutes after Rayner ceased the colonel sat steadily regarding him.
— from The Deserter by Charles King