They generally passed their rifles and equipments on to another man and thus a limited number of weapons served to arm a great many besiegers.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain, all thy request was my Decree: But longer in that Paradise to dwell, The Law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal Elements that know No gross, no unharmoneous mixture foule, Eject him tainted now, and purge him off As a distemper, gross to aire as gross, And mortal food, as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by Sin, that first Distemperd all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Lydgate did not make the affair a ground for valuing himself or (very particularly) despising Minchin, such rectification of misjudgments often happening among men of equal qualifications.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But these are all golden dreams.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By the telegraph apparatus a gentleman with a curly dark head, wearing a reefer coat made of sailcloth, was sitting at a table; he glanced at me morosely from under his brows, but immediately smiled and said: "Hullo, Better-than-nothing!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

CHAPTER XXXV Captain Whiffle sends for me—his situation described—his surgeon arrives, prescribes for him, and puts him to bed—a bed is put up for Mr. Simper contiguous to the state room, which, with other parts of the captains behaviour, gives the ship's company a very unfavourable idea of their commander—I am detained in the West Indies by the admiral, and go on board of the Lizard sloop of war in quality of surgeon's mate, where I make myself known to the surgeon, who treats me very kindly—I go on shore, sell my ticket, purchase necessaries, and, at my return on board, am surprised at the sight of Crampley, who is appointed lieutenant of the sloop—we sail on a cruise—take a prize in which I arrive at Port Morant under the command of my messmate, with whom I live in great harmony He was going on with an eulogium upon the captain, when I received a message to clean myself, and go up to the great cabin: and with this command I instantly complied, sweetening myself with rosewater from the medicine chest.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A trick; also a game at whist lost without scoring one.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Mr. Bryan says: So far as their own internal affairs are concerned, they do not need to be subject to any alien government.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Then Hippolyte would instantly seize his master's flageolet and play it with all the airs and graces assumed by Deschartres.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

He was afraid of himself, for there came to him at every thought of the affair a glow of admiration at the words Katrine had thrown back at him: "It could never have been like that.
— from Katrine: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

Walter, alone now,—for Ralph, although convalescent, had not yet left his bed,—sat by his wife's bedside a prey to anxiety and grief; for although she had resisted the first attack, she was now, thirty-six hours after it had seized her, fast sinking.
— from Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, 'Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!'" A curious feature of an American Christmas is the egg-nogg and free lunch, distributed at all the hotels and cafés.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

"Its chief families were the Armstrongs and Grahams, both clans being noted as desperate thieves and freebooters.
— from In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

They are also good to bark at woodchuck-holes.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

“Well, as near as I can judge, there are a good many things you 'love' to do—eh?”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

A flagellum appears to be a pseudopod supplied with something like nerve tissue and a ganglion capable of setting free a rapid succession of impulses.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer