The indefinite pronoun (and pronominal adjective)
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Some Kula valuables are received on the way back, and all the talo’i gifts from those intermediate partners are also collected on the return journey.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

And so he was, for, as she laughed and talked, Jo had whisked things into place and given quite a different air to the room.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The inhuman papists, after first stripping them, drove them like beasts to the spot fixed on for their destruction; and if any, through fatigue, or natural infirmities, were slack in their pace, they pricked them with their swords and pikes; and to strike terror on the multitude, they murdered some by the way.—Many of these poor wretches, when thrown into the water, endeavoured to save themselves by swimming to the shore; but their merciless persecutors prevented their endeavors taking effect by shooting them in the water.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Mrs. Tulliver's thoughts had been temporarily diverted from the quarrel with Mrs. Glegg by millinery and maternal cares, but now the great theme of the bonnet was thrown into perspective, and the children were out of the way, yesterday's anxieties recurred.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

He is known about the ship as the “Interrogation Point,” and this by constant use has become shortened to “Interrogation.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In it are gathered the seeds of all trees and herbs, from which their varieties spread abroad throughout the world; in it, as in Noah's ark, of all the kinds of beasts there is preserved at least one pair for breeding.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

When they are slain, the priests sprinkle the blood round about the altar; they then cleanse the bodies, and divide them into parts, and salt them with salt, and lay them upon the altar, while the pieces of wood are piled one upon another, and the fire is burning; they next cleanse the feet of the sacrifices, and the inwards, in an accurate manner and so lay them to the rest to be purged by the fire, while the priests receive the hides.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

How is a fellow to convalesce from typhoid if people aren't unfailingly kind to him?"
— from The Seven Darlings by Gouverneur Morris

His own great Spirit informs his Poetical World, and like that he speaks of, —— totos infusa per Artus Mens agitat Molem, & magno se corpora miscet.
— from Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Samuel Wesley

It was, however, but very slowly that the people of our land realized the benefits of the Reformation, glorious as that event was, regarded as to its progressive and its ultimate consequences.
— from An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

The intimacy of Marian Seaton with the reporter was interpreted by both Judith and Jane as presaging trouble in print, and in the time elapsing, that fear of some disclosure concerning Helen grew in intensity with Jane, and was shared by the reliable and ever considerate Judith.
— from Jane Allen, Center by Edith Bancroft

To Check Bleeding Raise the injured part as high as you can above the heart, press very firmly with sterile pad under thumb or fingers on or into the wound.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

Ptolemy made him no answer, for he was still a mere child, but some of the Egyptians and Lucius Septimius, a Roman who had made campaigns with Pompey but was a relative of Gabinius and had been left behind by him to keep guard over Ptolemy, came in the guise of friends: for all that they impiously plotted against him and by their act brought guilt upon themselves and all Egypt.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

"'Thou shalt have them if thou wilt swear, thou dog of a Jew, that it possesses all the qualities thou hast said.
— from The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

The knight, though a brave man, had no special love for warlike adventures, and during these exhausting marches he thought sorrowfully of his quiet castle on the Nahe; of how he used to lie down there in peace and safety at night without being in fear of the Saracens who, under cover of darkness would break in waving their scimitars in air, an event which was a nightly occurrence on this expedition.
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

And cries of war shall never more be heard Through the fair world, but men shall take their swords And beat them into ploughshares, and their spears And lances they shall turn to pruning-hooks,— Nation with nation shall contend no more, Save as to who may reach the goal of best Before the other, for the common good,—
— from The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems by John Reade