And I have two of them, a little son and a daughter. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The oral law was, therefore, never intrusted to books; but being preserved in the memories of the judges, prophets, priests, and wise men, was handed down from one to the other through a long succession of ages.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For tulī , old tetulī , and lātus , see 780 ; for the perfect of re-ferō , 861 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there called Betty Michell and her husband, and had two or three a long salutes from her out of sight of ‘su mari’, which pleased me mightily, and so carried them by water to West minster, and I to St. James’s, and there had a meeting before the Duke of Yorke, complaining of want of money, but nothing done to any purpose, for want we shall, so that now our advices to him signify nothing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Throughout the Wind river country of Wyoming many petroglyphs [679] have been found and others reported by the Shoshoni Indians, who say that they are the work of the “Pawkees,” as they call the Blackfeet, or, more properly, Satsika, an Algonquian tribe which formerly occupied that region, and their general style bears strong resemblance to similar carvings found in the eastern portion of the United States, in regions known to have been occupied by other tribes of the Algonquian linguistic stock.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

If you had thought of that a little sooner, I shouldn't have lost twenty francs!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892 by Various

Tell old Tavish and Long Shon, and they’re to bring a strong rope.”
— from Three Boys; Or, The Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn

Two massively carved doors faced us, the one opening on the Sala Grande, the other to a long succession of 31 small reception-rooms, leading one out of the other.
— from The Clock and the Key by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Vesey

And Snarley, on his part, never spoke of the occurrence to any living soul.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

Rolling to the edge of the shelf, it had toppled over, taking a large strip of shelving rock with it.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico; Or, The End of the Silver Trail by Frank Gee Patchin

Purified by suffering and repentance, their garments white as snow, they encircle the throne of their Saviour; and those whose lives below were those of toil and long suffering, are now among the blessed.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar