The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that "those in New Netherland, and especially in New England, who have no means to build farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside with wood all round the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth; floor this cellar with plank, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars clear up, and cover the spars with bark or green sods, so that they can live dry and warm in these houses with their entire families for two, three, and four years, it being understood that partitions are run through those cellars which are adapted to the size of the family.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

" At this all stood amazed, and knew not where to look nor what to think or say, for they were all bewildered with the happening; so, while everyone looked at Robin as though they had been changed to stone, he clapped his bugle horn to his lips and blew three blasts so loud and clear, they echoed from floor to rafter as though they were sounded by the trump of doom.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

At the end farthest from the house they thickened into a continuous hedge.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Were the latter the truth, then notwithstanding all the pre-eminence which must be assigned to the Eternal First from the sufficiency, unity, and independence of his being, as the dread ground of the universe, his nature would yet fall far short of that, which we are bound to comprehend in the idea of GOD.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Again, I think everyone's experience will confirm the statement, that the mind is not at all times equally fit for thinking on a given subject, but according as the body is more or less fitted for being stimulated by the image of this or that object, so also is the mind more or less fitted for contemplating the said object.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Some attend to lawns in summer and furnaces in winter; by having several of each to care for, they earn from five to ten dollars a week.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This crowd had been waiting since daybreak for three things: noonday, the embassy from Flanders, the mystery play.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Anyhow, it would be a help for poor Miss Locke, who has a sad time of it trying to earn food for them both.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

the absurdity of the idea that they could drive the English fleet from the sea was already palpable; and unless that could be done, it would have been madness for the Duke of Parma to venture out to sea in his flat-bottomed boats, encumbered as they would be by troops.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

Who, angry that the eyes fly from their lights, In darkness daunts them with more dreadful sights.
— from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

That [Pg 29] makes the engine feed from the back, instead of from directly overhead, you see."
— from The Flying Girl and Her Chum by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It is our traditional energy food, for though its taste is bitter, its after-life is pleasant.”
— from The Revolutions of Time by Jonathan Dunn

He slid down the steep hill, with Yula after him, crept along the back of the stockade, and round the end farthest from the reeds.
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder

Mr. Bonner engaged Mr. Everett to write a series of articles on Mount Vernon, giving in return his check for $10,000 to be applied toward the Everett Fund for the aid of the Association.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

In 1781 he suggested that salt fish be contracted for the troops, and possibly it was tried for a while, but the year following, army leaders voted to exclude fish from the rations.
— from The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia by James Wharton