The [3272] Greeks had their Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean games, in honour of Neptune, Jupiter, Apollo; Athens hers: some for honour, garlands, crowns; for [3273] beauty, dancing, running, leaping, like our silver games.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In fact, about the only place I never got to was the Fortunate Island.”
— from The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

Though Purging in time of Pestilence is not good, as Diemerbroek by frequent Examples has observ'd, yet in Cachochymick Bodies, it may be convenient once in a fortnight, to take a Dose of Pillulæ Ruffi ; Take [18] half a Dram at Night, and next Morning take the wonted Antidote, as at other times.
— from A Plain and Easie Method for Preserving (by God's Blessing) Those That Are Well from the Infection of the Plague, or Any Contagious Distemper, in City, Camp, Fleet, Etc., and for Curing Such as Are Infected with It. by Thomas Willis

There is an average of 10 mistakes per page for a good OCR package and… many more mistakes if the quality of the scanner and the OCR package is not great.
— from Project Gutenberg (1971-2005) by Marie Lebert

The other pole is not given.
— from Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

There is an average of 10 mistakes per page for a good OCR package, and many more mistakes if the quality of the scanner and the OCR package is not great.
— from Project Gutenberg (1971-2008) by Marie Lebert

"Deuce take me," cried Malicorne, "if that old patterer is not going fast asleep!
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

The other people in northern Greece were either partisans of the Persians, like the Thebans, or were unwilling to make any great sacrifices for the preservation of their independence.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith

19 After I had grown to manhood and my lot had been cast in other places it was over fourteen years before I saw much of the old scenes, but when returning to the old places I noticed great changes.
— from Treading the Narrow Way by Robert Emmet Barrett

The government of the country in time of peace involved no great care or trouble, for only the royal 87 domains or counties and the royal cities possessing privileges fell within the sphere of the direct power of the king and court.
— from The story of Hungary by Ármin Vámbéry