Then home to dinner, and after that to the Exchequer, where I heard all the afternoon a great many causes before the Barons; in the end came ours, and Squib proved clearly by his patent that the house and office did now belong to him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Pikke , sb. pitch, Cath.; pyk , Prompt.; pyche , Prompt.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Yea, more, the existence of any spiritual person cannot be proved in that way.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Schmorl produced comparable lesions in dogs and came to the conclusion that the disorder was one “very similar” to scurvy but not identical with it, the essential difference being that in all animals there was a most marked absorption of bone by osteoclasts.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

There were buried also in the new choir, Sir John Mowbery, Earl of Nottingham, 1398; Sir Edwarde Cortney; Sir Hugh Montgomerie, and Sir John his brother; [354] John Wolle, son to Sir John Wolle; Thomas Bayholt, esquire; Elizabeth, Countess of Athole; Dame Johan, wife to Sir Thomas Say of Alden; Sir Pence Castle, Baron; John, Lord Gray, son to Reginald, Lord Gray of Wilton, 1418; Sir John Ludlow, knight; Sir Richard Derois, knight; Richarde Gray, knight; John Ashley, knight; Robert Bristow, esquire; Thomas Perry, esquire; Robert Tempest, esquire; William Call; William Neddow.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Not only can the following stitches, which are suitable for any linen coarse or fine, be used for this kind of embroidery, but most of the net and lace patterns too, and these combined with buttonholing and flat stitch produce charming effects.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The irrational Duke could not continue in his Residence Cities, with the Brother administering over him; still proving contumacious, he needed absolutely to be driven out, to Wismar or I know not whither; went wandering about for almost twenty years to come; disturbed, and stirring up disturbance.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

He's going to pay me six per cent.
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von

A smart person can make the journey in three or four days; if, however, his heart be not right at death, the journey will be prolonged and attended [Pg 19] with difficulties and stormy weather till he reaches the land of rest.
— from Legends of The Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie De Voe

They are also applied by dusting them over any surface previously covered with varnish to make them adhere.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The chapel of St. Guénolé occupies the base of a great tower, now ruinous, but looking as though in a former day it must have belonged to some pretentious church.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The side panels contain portraits of King René, and of his second wife, Jeanne de Laval, kneeling—a panel to each.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

China general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place international: satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000) Christmas Island general assessment: service provided by the Australian network domestic: only analog mobile telephone service is available international: satellite earth stations - one Intelsat earth station provides telephone and telex service (2000)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

St Peter, according to the squire and the pope as well as St. Peter, can represent but the poor and the modest: Jesus, preaching the gospel, and affecting over thrones and temporal things, no sort of pretension, acknowledging that his kingdom is not of this world, submitting himself to the civil power, and, in fine, rendering to Cesar, that which to Cesar belongs.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various