“Hardened girl!” exclaimed Miss Scatcherd; “nothing can correct you of your slatternly habits: carry the rod away.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

In all particular provinces we see it confirmed by experience, as the air is, so are the inhabitants, dull, heavy, witty, subtle, neat, cleanly, clownish, sick, and sound.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

— sa simbahan n church clerk or one in charge of keeping the records of the church.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

See New Comedy. Compendious, short.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Perhaps it hurts her pride, as she now considers Clinker in the light of a relation; but, I believe, her objections are of a more selfish nature.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

No academy had welcomed him to its shade, no college crowned him with its honors; to read, to write, to cipher—these had been his degrees in knowledge.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

In 1836 he was appointed assistant missionary at Lublin, where he preached the Gospel to his own relations, one of whom, a thriving medical doctor of the same name, confessed Christ and was baptized with his four children in 1845, and his wife later, in 1849.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

She didn't finish the sentence; she never could complete any such sentence as this; but her father knew what she meant.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A chapel-yard was covered with grey cloaks; and at a little inn hard by, stood numerous carts, cars, shandry-dans, and pillioned horses, awaiting the end of the prayers.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

The former generally takes place within a year, the bride being dressed in special new clothes called bes , and sent with ceremony to her husband’s house on an auspicious day fixed by a Brāhman.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Norice , sb. nurse, C, C2, SkD; nurice , SkD; nursche , W.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

THE CAP AND BELLS The inn was small and snug, near Cheapside Cross, and resorted to by men of an argumentative mind.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

Beyond this authorized decision and declaration of the proper state tribunal, it is respectfully submitted that neither the president of the senate nor congress can go.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

how it fir'd Their blouds to see the enemies captive streams Born through the streets! nor could chaste Juliana The Duke's fair Neece, though guarded with her greatness Resist this gallant charge, but laying by Desparity of fortune from the object, Yielded her self thy prisoner.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

That is, the principles of physics were used to prove the creation of the world in time, and from creation inference was made to the existence of a Creator, since nothing can create itself.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik