It was probably from having none but salt provisions, and possibly from our having run very rapidly into hot weather, after having been so long in the extremest cold.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The parents of the student presented a petition to the King against the city, for having dared to execute a noble and to hang his body on a gibbet, in opposition to the sacred right which this noble had of appealing to the judgment of his peers.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

GEORGE R. W Hereas we have received Information, that several Persons, Subjects of Great Britain , have since the 24 th Day of June , in the Year of our Lord 1715 , committed divers Pyracies and Robberies upon the High-Seas, in the West-Indies , or adjoyning to our Plantations, which hath and may Occasion great Damage to the Merchants of Great Britain , and others trading into those Parts; and tho’ we have appointed such a Force as we judge sufficient for suppressing the said Pyrates, yet the more effectually to put an End to the same, we have thought fit, by and with the Advice of our Privy Council, to Issue this our Royal Proclamation; and we do hereby promise, and declare, that in Case any of the said Pyrates, shall on or before the 5 th of September , in the Year of our Lord 1718 , surrender him or themselves, to one of our Principal Secretaries of State in Great Britain or Ireland , or to any Governor or Deputy Governor of any of our Plantations beyond the Seas; every such Pyrate and Pyrates so surrendering him, or themselves, as aforesaid, shall have our gracious Pardon, of and for such, his or their Pyracy, or Pyracies, by him or them committed before the fifth of January next ensuing.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Some plants are perpetuated by bulbs, tubers, or roots in which a supply of food material is stored away to carry the plant over a period when its above-ground parts cannot thrive owing to frost or drought.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

And just the blame: for female innocence Not only flies the guilt, but shuns the offence: The unguarded virgin, as unchaste, I blame; And the least freedom with the sex is shame, Till our consenting sires a spouse provide, And public nuptials justify the bride, But would'st thou soon review thy native plain?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

All the oracles preserved at Rome were in everybody’s mouth; and every temple and house was full of prodigies and miracles: in consequence of which the city was one scene of vows, sacrifices, supplicatory processions, and prayers.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

We should have to say, "They excel through their religion," and then the problem would turn on the religion whose practice should bring such power and prosperity to its devotees.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Such power and patronage: such relatives of influence and rank: as smiled upon me then, look coldly now; but there are smiling fields and waving trees in England's richest county; and by one village church—mine, Rose, my own!—there stands a rustic dwelling which you can make me prouder of, than all the hopes I have renounced, measured a thousandfold.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The vamped dress of silver paper and paste, which had been too glaring in the footlights, looked more and more magical and silvery as it danced away under a brilliant moon.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The question being about a matter of fact, it is begging it to bring, as a proof for it, an hypothesis, which is the very thing in dispute: by which way one may prove anything, and it is but supposing that all watches, whilst the balance beats, think, and it is sufficiently proved, and past doubt, that my watch thought all last night.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

"For this the King, with pomp and pride, Held solemn court at Whitsuntide, And summoned Prince and Peer— All who owed homage for their land, Or who craved knighthood from his hand, Or who had succour to demand— To come from far and near.
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

A person wantonly setting fire to a forest would there be looked upon as an outlaw, like the miscreant who should poison a public drinking fountain.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

What a crowd of old remembrances must be present each Sunday to the clergyman's mind, who has served the same parish and preached in the same church for fifty years!
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

THE TRAINING OF A TRAITOR “ He lived in an atmosphere of womanly luxury, so that sweet perfumes and pretty flowers became necessaries of life to him. ”
— from Ferdinand of Bulgaria: The Amazing Career of a Shoddy Czar by Anonymous

After breakfast, he went to the piano, and played two-steps, and rag-time music, so infectiously, that Simpson literally tripped as he cleared the table; and Nurse Rosemary, sitting pale and preoccupied, with a pile of letters before her, had hard work to keep her feet still.
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

After a good long talk, I got to sleep easily, thinking, as I dozed off, that I should pass a pleasant night.
— from The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams

215 , for the same purpose, and places this Page 135 {135} white band around it, while the United States of America takes the star-bestrewn azure canton from the national flag, Fig.
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme