The poor wretches complied with this request, hoping to obtain money and freedom; they would be sold to another master, and run away again, to their employers; sometimes they would be sold in this manner three or four times, until they had realized three or four thousand dollars by them; but as, after this, there was fear of detection, the usual custom was to get rid of the only witness that could be produced against them, which was the negro himself, by murdering him, and throwing his body into the Mississippi.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

(3) The aim must always represent a freeing of activities.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared, but she ran off as hard as she could and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

68 the armature, moving at right angles to the lines of force, cuts a maximum number in a given time, and the current induced in the coil is therefore now most intense.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Contractions in the perfect before -t and -mus are rare: as, inrītāt , disturbāt ; suēmus or su͡emus (Lucr.), nōmus (Enn.), cōnsu͡emus (Prop.).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

in presence of Rhagwys, n. a premonition Rhagymadrodd, n. a preface Rhagymddwyn, n. prolepsis Rhagymgais, v. to attempt beforehand Rhagymguddio, v. to hide one’s self beforehand Rhagymlid, v. to pursue before Rhagymrwymo, v. to bind one’s self beforehand Rhagynys, n. an adjacent isle Rhagysgrif, n. a prescript Rhagystafell, n. ante-chamber Rhagystawd, n. a foremost layer Rhagystumio, v. to mould into form beforehand Rhang, n. content; fulfilment Rhangiad, n. a fulfilling Rhangu, v. to fulfil; to satisfy Rhai, n. a few: a. some Rhaiad, n. radiation Rhaiadr, n. a cateract Rhraiadru, v. to spout out Rhaiadu, v. to radiate, to ray Rhaib, n. a snatch; greed Rhaid, n. need necessity: a. needful, necessity Rhaidd, n. a ray; a spear Rhaien, n. a ray, a skate Rhail, n. a rail, a paddle Rhain, n. lances, spears: a tending forward Rhaint, n. what is pervasive Rhaith, n. right; law; jury Rhal, n. character, disposition Rhaliad, n. a characterising Rhalu, v. to characterise Rham, n. a rise or reach over Rhawant, n. a token; a metaphor; a romance: a. exalting; romantic Rhamanta, v. to use hyperbole Rhamantol, a. romantic Rhamiad, n. a rising over, a soaring Rhamp, n. a running out Rhamu, v. to rise, to soar Rhan, n. a part, a share, a division: adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

With Thy goodliness and Thy beauty go forward, proceed prosperously, and reign, because of Thy truth, and meekness, and righteousness; and Thy right hand shall lead Thee forth wonderfully.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

Anxious to accumulate money as rapidly as possible, they are not very particular
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

the filament moved 4 times to the left and 3 times to the right, and he refers to a movement at right angles to the above.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

“Tell the man to stop talking about money and rank after his godless English manner.
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

And so, glancing over the hills from Bellegra, I sent my thoughts into those Abruzzi mountains, and registered a vow to revisit Scanno--if only in order to traverse once more by moonlight, for the sake of auld lang syne, the devious paths to Roccaraso, or linger in that moist nook by the lake-side where stood the Scanno of olden days (the Betifuli, if such it was, of the Pelignians), where the apples grow, where the sly dabchick plays among the reeds, and where, one evening, I listened to something that might have been said much sooner.
— from Alone by Norman Douglas

“I am not curious,” as Miss Lottie Venne says in one of her parts, “but I like to know,” and I might be tempted to pervert the book from its natural uses and open it, so as to find out what kind of a thing a moral and religious anecdote is.
— from Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

But she did not think any more about running after Terence began to play.
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

“If only they’re tidy children,” said Miss Rachel for the fiftieth time; and Miss Abbie responded, as she always did, “Yes, and quiet-mannered.”
— from Dick and Dolly by Carolyn Wells

The appointment was highly unpopular; riots broke out, the army mutinied, and rose against the authorities, with the result that the Queen of Portugal was compelled to accept the Radical Constitution of 1820, in the place of Dom Pedro's constitutional Charter of 1826.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

It is added that horses are bred there and mules; and rubies and lapis lazuli found in the neighbourhood and distributed through the world.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir