Hi t-ha rd without the italicized letters = t’a . ts as in jetsam ; after another word softened to ds in gladsome . ts’.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

this flint is of no regular form, and if they can only obtain a part of it, an inch or two in length that will cut they are satisfyed, they renew the edge by fleaking off the flint by means of the point of an Elk's or deer's horn.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Reader, he was one of those anomalous practitioners in lower departments of the law who—what shall I say?—who on prudential reasons, or from necessity, deny themselves all indulgence in the luxury of too delicate a conscience, (a periphrasis which might be abridged considerably, but that I leave to the reader’s taste): in many walks of life a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage; and just as people talk of “laying down” their carriages, so I suppose my friend Mr. --- had “laid down” his conscience for a time, meaning, doubtless, to resume it as soon as he could afford it.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

I sent him the measure of my sword, which was thirty-two inches long, telling him he might choose any place beyond the ban.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If Thou sendest me to hell, I shall love Thee there, and from there I shall cry out that I love Thee for ever and ever....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Behold my bosom; strike, my Lord, if you suspect that a disloyal thought is lodged there.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

There the darkness was dimly lighted up by a night-light and the ikon lamp; the patients, upset by the death of Mihailo, were sitting on their bedsteads: their dishevelled figures, mixed up with the shadows, looked broader, taller, and seemed to be growing bigger and bigger; on the furthest bedstead in the corner, where it was darkest, there sat the peasant moving his head and his hand.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At last one of the McIntyre's shook hands gravely with the younger man, and the other one attended him to the door, talking in low tones.
— from Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill

I always thought it ludicrous to read: Celidora .
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

There are very many people in the world who still prefer the hand-made shoe, and there is nothing to prevent the world generally from going back to that system if they choose; but St. Crispin's gentle art has blossomed into a vaster field of blessings for mankind under the fruitful impetus of invention than if left to vegetate under the simple processes of primitive man.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

They stood in little groups, talking in low tones, and ever casting affrighted glances behind them from their great rolling eyes.
— from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Melba sang three times in "La Traviata," five times in "Rigoletto," twice in "Lucia di Lammermoor," once in "Faust," and four times in "La Bohème."
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

[Pg 65] desire of wealth, which makes —— so eager to have you remain, is contrary to your principles of action), I will not importune you.—I will only tell you, that I long to see you—and, being at peace with you, I shall be hurt, rather than made angry, by delays.—Having suffered so much in life, do not be surprised if I sometimes, when left to myself, grow gloomy, and suppose that it was all a dream, and that my happiness is not to last.
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

His description is as follows:—“The musk stag is about three feet six inches in length, from the head to the tail; the head is about half a foot long; the neck seven or eight inches; the fore part of the head three inches broad, and the nose sharp like that of a greyhound; the ears are erect, like those of a rabbit, and about three inches long; the tail is not above two inches; the fore-legs, including feet and thighs, are thirteen or fourteen inches long; he is cloven-footed, armed on his fore-feet behind and before with two horny substances: the hind feet were wanting.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

—Bright to pale blue, rarely white; in dense clusters about three inches long, terminating the usually elongated, somewhat leafy peduncles.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Oh, the eager hope and sickening disappointment, the vehement aspirations, the intense longings, the bitter hatred, the scorn, the greater than angelic, the human love and benevolence, the fortitude, the courage, the whole strange life of hundreds of dead men, that burned between those thick covers!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal translation probably more obscure,—than either of the preceding specimens;— Mi ni shimiru Kaze
— from In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn