Satan asked the loan of them for one hour for the same purpose, and we never saw them again.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Under the new régime the Chancellor found the Privy Council filled with Court favourites or ambitious intriguers of the type of Sir William Coventry, who scorned precedent and was never so happy as when inveighing against the trammels of the law.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

He had borne his beloved owner far ahead of the sheriff’s posse, and was now securing a moment’s much-needed rest.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

As the clouds grew more threatening, it is scarcely to be credited how many persons interested themselves for the same purpose, and what numberless schemes were devised to break the fetters which had been imposed on the Royal Family, by their jailers, the Assembly.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

Life is better ordered, but it is not so picturesque as when negro servants swarmed in the kitchen, and German, Scotch, and Irish redemptioners served in varied callings.
— from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

The boys, who in rags that no tailor has darned or mended, clamber over the white vineyard walls, the little girls, whose mothers comb their hair before the doors of the houses, are not so pink and white, nor so nicely washed as the Holland children, but I should like to see again the brown-skinned, black-haired little ones with the dark eyes, and end my days amid all the clatter in the warm air, among my nephews, nieces and blood-relations.”
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

75 Varieties occasionally arise having an innate adaptation for certain soils, almost as strongly pronounced as with natural species growing on the most distinct geological formations; thus in America the imperial gage, differently from almost all other kinds, "is peculiarly fitted for dry light soils where many sorts drop their fruit," whereas on rich heavy soils the fruit is often insipid.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Of course Paddy Flinders went with the same party, and we need scarcely add that the little Irishman sympathised with Fred.
— from Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

for in thee 'Tis but the bait of policy; Which like a viper lodg'd in flow'rs, Its venom through that sweetness pours; And when not so, then always 'tis A fading paint, the short-liv'd bliss Of air and humour; out and in, Like colours in a dolphin's skin; But must not live beyond one day, Or convenience; then away.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

She was, perhaps, a relative of this next, recorded in an ancient English chronicle:— "In the time of King Henry I., when Bartholomew de Glanville was warden of Oxford Castle, the fishermen took in their nets a wild man, having the human shape complete, with horns on his head, and long and pick beard, and a great deal of shaggy hair on his breast; but he stole away to sea privately, and was never seen afterwards."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various