In the vast stretch from the strait to the Ladrones (first seen by them of all Europeans), only two islands, both desert, are sighted, and those, since they are unable to find anchorage there, are called the “Unfortunate Isles.”
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

In the heat of this scolding Mrs Western departed, and had consequently no leisure to acquaint her brother with the letter which Sophia received, which might have possibly produced ill effects; but, to say truth, I believe it never once occurred to her memory at this time.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Crippled by debt, and in the power of Gobseck, Bidault and Mitral, he was forced to give up one of the treasury departments to Isidore Baudoyer, despite his personal liking for Rabourdin.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

When you were brought in, I was there; when you were questioned, I was there.—Den of wolves!—It was my crime, it was my gallows that I beheld being slowly reared over your head.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

In like manner the rest of the immortal blessed ones reverence the dread goddess.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

2. 1. 63 his black bag of papers, there, in Buckram.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

"Your worship is right, senor governor," said the physician; "and therefore your worship, I consider, should not eat of those stewed rabbits there, because it is a furry kind of food; if that veal were not roasted and served with pickles, you might try it; but it is out of the question."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The face is pallid and haggard, the cheeks hollow, the skin drawn, there is a loss of frankness of expression, the eyes are shifty, the movements nervous and uncertain, and all this is but preliminary to the ultimate degradation and loss of self-respect which follow the victim of the cigarette habit, through years of misery and failure.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

That is, "Because he had no other tub."
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The induction balance is affected by three distinct arrangements of molecular structure in iron and steel, by means of which we have apparent external neutrality.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the, land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Everything that it beholds in that Object gives it new depth and new colours.
— from Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal

Such a man is driven to the conclusion that religion accomplishes but little—that it creates as much want as it alleviates, and that it burdens the world with parasites.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Jurisdiction of a Local Assembly May I remind you regarding the situation in San Francisco that no two independent Bahá’í centers can possibly be recognized in the same city, and that the center which bears my name should act in all matters only with the full consent and approval of the San Francisco Spiritual Assembly.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

There is Barbara’s face, that every one must look at and admire, and think her a fine, brave, merry girl.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11 by Robert Louis Stevenson

In just thirteen minutes from the time it began the Hatteras hoisted a white light at her masthead and fired an off-gun to show that she had been beaten. “Fortune of war,” sighed the officer who was sitting in the cutter’s stern-sheets beside the coxswain.
— from Sailor Jack, the Trader by Harry Castlemon