For why may not God vse anie kinde of extraordinarie punishment, when it pleases him; as well as the ordinarie roddes of sicknesse or other aduersities.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

The royal edicts were framed to prevent the abuses, the neglect, or the depredations of the citizens themselves; and a professed architect, the annual sum of two hundred pounds of gold, twenty-five thousand tiles, and the receipt of customs from the Lucrine port, were assigned for the ordinary repairs of the walls and public edifices.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

You only have to turn a few pages in the War Department Report for 1899 from the Merritt promise to the Otis repudiation of it.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

For the often reading over the Book, by those larger descriptions of things, and which are set after the Pictures, will be able perfectly to beget a habit of reading.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

The degradation of Attalus removed the only real obstacle to the conclusion of the peace; and Alaric advanced within three miles of Ravenna, to press the irresolution of the Imperial ministers, whose insolence soon returned with the return of fortune.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Besides, although it is a hard thing for a philosopher to assume a principle, of which he can give to himself no reasonable account, and still more to employ conceptions, the objective reality of which cannot be established, nothing is more usual with the common understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

but I take the matter coolly before me, and consider, that some tag, or rag, or jag, or bolt, or buckle, or buckle’s tongue, will ever be a wanting or want altering, travel where I will—so I never chaff, but take the good and the bad as they fall in my road, and get on:——Do so, my lad! said I; he had lost five minutes already, in alighting in order to get at a luncheon of black bread, which he had cramm’d into the chaise-pocket, and was remounted, and going leisurely on, to relish it the better.——Get on, my lad, said I, briskly—but in the most persuasive tone imaginable, for I jingled a four-and-twenty sous piece against the glass, taking care to hold the flat side towards him, as he look’d back: the dog grinn’d intelligence from his right ear to his left, and behind his sooty muzzle discovered such a pearly row of teeth, that Sovereignty would have pawn’d her jewels for them.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The day after this, however, he revived for a longer time; but on this occasion Ralph only was with him.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

In the last mentioned year he published two volumes of Algic Researches, comprising Indian Tales and Legends, and soon after, having passed more than twenty years as a traveller or resident on the frontiers, he removed to the city of New-York, intending to prepare for the press the great mass of his original papers which he had accumulated in this long period.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

[Pg 27] order it was intended the officers should move off; to which the other replied, "Of course in funeral order;" which injunction was instantly confirmed by Colonel Fearon, who said, "Most undoubtedly, the juniors first; but see that any man is cut down who presumes to enter the boats before the means of escape are presented to the women and children."
— from The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend by Duncan McGregor

But far more interesting is the other route of the steamers, that which leads us among the greater islands.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

Between diseases, as they occur in Europe and in Asia, there are just as many shades of difference as between the plants of those opposite regions, or in the colour of the inhabitants.
— from Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India by McGrigor, James, Sir

The name of De Lesseps has been on the lips of many people, both French and English, within the past two years; some speaking of him in terms of reproach, others of admiration, for his past services to his country and the world at large, and commiseration for his present sad position, and the failure of his last great scheme, the cutting of the Isthmus of Panama.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 42, June, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Continuing his march, he occupied Louviers, Vernon, Verneuil, Mantes, Meulan, and Poissy, where he took up his quarters in the old residence of King Robert; and thence his troops advanced and spread themselves as far as Ruel, Neuilly, Boulogne, St. Cloud, Bourg-la-Reine, and almost to the gates of Paris, whence could be seen “the fire and smoke from burning villages.”
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot

Besides all this, the Secretary of the Treasury had no authority whatever to issue bonds to increase the ordinary revenues or pay current expenses.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

As a matter of fact, modified forms of such a practice have long been in use—indeed the ordinary rotations of crops are, to a certain extent, adaptations of this practice.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

This word mamma was the only remnant of her that lingered in his speech.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Think of red of the most vivid brilliant kind; gradually think of it growing grayer and grayer until it is pure gray.
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley