As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Had this continued for any length of time with the same rigor, I verily believe I should have died in despair at the foot of the hated dungeon.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He then called for Mucianus, together with his other commanders and friends, and, in the first place, he informed them what a valiant man Josephus had been, and what great hardships he had made him undergo in the siege of Jotapata.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

the most remarkable of these casscades falls about 300 feet perpendicularly over a solid rock into a narrow bottom of the river on the south side.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And there is no instance, in which we have shewn less judgment, than in endeavouring to describe, what we call, the ripeness or fitness of the Continent for independance.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

He had been two months in Minneapolis, and his chief struggle had been the concealing from “the other guys at school” how particularly superior he felt himself to be, yet this conviction was built upon shifting sands.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Our best plan is, I think, to deal with Fallacies in the same was as we have already dealt with Syllogisms : that is, to take certain forms of Pairs of Propositions, and to work pg082 them out, once for all, on the Triliteral Diagram, and ascertain that they yield no Conclusion; and then to record them, for future use, as Formulæ for Fallacies , just as we have already recorded our three Formulæ for Syllogisms .
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

"The Book," says Mr. Waite, "treats of the noble art of magic, the foundation and nature of the Cabala, the essence of veritable alchemy, and of the Causa Fratrum Rosae Crucis.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

This is a lawful excuse before God on this fashion, that thou wouldest in thy heart be glad to reconcile thy neighbour, if he were present; and that thou thinkest in thy heart, whensoever thou shalt meet with him, to go unto him, and require him charitably to forgive thee; and so never intend to come from him, until the time that you both depart one from the other true brethren in Christ.
— from Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses by Hugh Latimer

There was a nicely fitted cabinet, and the Chinese flower-stands were handsomely filled.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

There comes from them a cold wind, that drives heavy clouds towards Bareges; nothing is gay but the two jewelled streamlets which border the street and prattle noisily over the blue pebbles.
— from A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine

At last the time came for Tam Dale to take young solans.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Directly across the road from the Curwood farm stood the home of Hiram Fisher, a kindly old farmer, who had developed a beautiful homesite and whose yard was filled with maple and pine trees.
— from James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds by Hobart Donald Swiggett

"This city," Frederick thought, "is obsessed by a craze for money making."
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

1665 Three Circles (Franconia, Bavaria, Swabia) ducat = 3 fl.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

"You can't take the Chink from here this time, can you?"
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

"What is that I hear?" said a voice which seemed to come from right over the children's heads.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

The vice-legate, who governed the city for the pope, addressed the people from his balcony; told them he had no force to oppose this their movement, that they had his prayers for their happiness, and that he would retire.
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste