" We are compelled to omit, for the want of room, the notice of numerous Messianic prophecies found in the sacred writings of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mexico, Arabia, and other countries, all of which tend to show that the same prophetic spirit pervaded all religious countries, reliable only to the extent it might have issued from an interior spiritual vision, or have been illuminated by departed spirits.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find, recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a reasonably complete explanation of the whole affair.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The justices take a personal share in public business; they are sometimes entrusted with administrative functions in conjunction with elected officers, *r they sometimes constitute a tribunal, before which the magistrates summarily prosecute a refractory citizen, or the citizens inform against the abuses of the magistrate.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The pleasing changes of rough and smooth, pliant and rigid, curved and straight in the bark and branches of a tree give the truth to my hand.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

purely; very we Purlan, a. purely clean Puro, v. to purify, to cleanse Purol, a. purifying, cleansing Puten, n. a whore, a harlot Puteindra, n. whoredom Puteindy, n. bawdy house Puteinig, a. whorish, adulterous Puteinio, v. to go a whoring Puteiniol, a. meretricious Puteiniwr, n. a whoremonger Pw, n. a tendency to put off Pwca, n. a hobgoblin, a fiend Pwci, n. a hobgoblin, a goblin Pwd, n. a rot; a rot in sheep Pwdr, a. rotten, corrupt Pwff, n. a puff, a sharp blast Pwfflo, v. to come in puffs Pwg, n. what pushes or swells out Pwng, n. a cluster, a crop Pwngiad, n. a teeming Pwngo, v. to teem; to cluster Pwngol, a. teeming; clustering Pwl, a. blunt, obtuse; dull Pwll, n. a pool; a puddle Pwm, n. tendency to swell out Pwmp, n. a round mass, a lump Pwmpio, v. to thurap, to bang, v. to boss, to knob Pwmplog, a. bossed knobbed Pwn, n. a pack; burden Pwnc, n. point, subject Pwniad, n. a burdening Pwnio, v. to burden; to bang Pwnt, n. aggregate; a reservoir Pwr, n. what extends; a worm Pwsach, n. a loud outcry Pwt, n. any short thing Pwtan, n. a squat female Pwtiad, n. a butting, a poking Pwtian, v. to keep poking Pwtro, v. to push, to poke Pwtwn, n. a liquor; whiskey Pwtyn, n. a short round body Pwy, n. a beat; a butt: adv. in advanced position: pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a reasonably complete explanation of the whole affair.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is dearer in some places, and rather cheaper in others; but it must soon all come to a level.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

A glance at some of the judicial definitions of such phrases as "reasonable care," "reasonable doubt," "reasonable law," as brought together in Words and Phrases Judicially Defined , illustrates this view.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The names of the persons to whom such packages are respectively consigned, agreeably to the bills of lading signed for the same, unless when the goods are consigned to order, when it shall be so expressed in the manifest.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

The justices take a personal share in public business; they are sometimes intrusted with administrative functions in conjunction with elected officers;{82} they sometimes constitute a tribunal, before which the magistrates summarily prosecute a refractory citizen or the citizens inform against the abuses of the magistrate.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

This, as it proved, was fortunate, since the thing sank but slowly and the foremost Pongo boats halted a minute to recover so precious a relic, checking the others behind them, a circumstance that helped us by twenty or thirty yards.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

His sons were thus brought into their society, and they listened to long discussions upon subjects of a scientific, political, and religious character, though public measures received a large share of attention.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

Senator Piles and Representative Cushman, of the Washington Congressional delegation, introduced me to the President in the cabinet room.
— from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs