I have even talked with Rip Van Winkle myself, who, when last I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly rational and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken before a country justice, and signed with cross, in the justice’s own handwriting.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

= ācirr- ācȳðan to show, proclaim, reveal, announce, confirm, prove .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

= KEY: Purpose \n.\. SYN: Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point, resolve. ANT: Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In the mean time, all guns, shot, shell, cotton, etc., to be moved to a safe place, easy to guard, and provisions and wagons got ready for another swath, aiming to have our army in hand about the head of Broad River, say Pocotaligo, Robertsville, and Coosawhatchie, by the 15th January.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal|, hebdomadary|; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial|; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial, &c.; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten, &c. regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Words like "my," "his," "your," which indicate ownership or some possessive relation, are called possessive adjectives .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

We had quite forgotten all such petty restrictions as chapters, we solemnly declare.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Eucharius, a Spanish priest, residing at Calama, was for a long time a sufferer from stone.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Report of the committee, drawn up by “Citizen St. Priest,” recommended a considerable reduction in the charge for postage.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

Down the highway, at a slow pace, rode a cavalryman wearing a gray uniform, with a sergeant's chevrons, and mounted on a steed good in his day, but whose day was gone.
— from The Lost Guidon 1911 by Mary Noailles Murfree

In discussions on such primitive rites as “Carrying out the Death,” “Bringing in Summer,” we are often told that the puppet of the girl is carried round, buried, burnt; brought back, because it “personifies the Spirit of Vegetation,” or it “embodies the 71 Spirit of Summer.”
— from Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison

“I think I have heard you say something pretty rough against Carl Swayne.”
— from A Rebellion in Dixie by Harry Castlemon