"But the class of children in this district the most abused and oppressed are the apprentices, and particularly those who are bound to the small masters among the locksmiths, key and bolt makers, screwmakers, &c. Even among these small masters, there are respectable and humane men, who do not suffer any degree of poverty to render them brutal; but many of these men treat their apprentices not so much with neglect and harshness, as with ferocious violence, the result of unbridled passions, excited often by ardent spirits, acting on bodies exhausted by over-work, and on minds which have never received the slightest moral or religious culture, and which, therefore, never exercise the smallest moral or religious restraint."—Ibid.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

Practice in the repetition of unfamiliar phonetic elements.
— from Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

The rest of us put everything we wanted on one sledge and leaving the others up there went down the slope as before.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

“We have had a sombre Xmas here: my wife very ill, and the rest of us poorly enough.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever