The western segment, and this is [ 31 ] the part of which we shall speak as the district of the Southern Massim, comprises first the East End of the mainland, the few adjacent islands, Sariba, Roge’a, Side’a, and Basilaki; to the South, the island of Wari, to the East the important, though small archipelago of Tubetube (Engineer Group); and to the North, the big archipelago of the d’Entrecasteaux Islands.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Upon the re-entrance of Leonato be said to him, “This slave makes clear your daughter's innocence.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“O, you must know him, Tom,” said Mr Cunningham stoutly.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

After this still more came, each with one tail more than the other, but they were all turned away, until at last one came who had nine tails, like old Mr Fox.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I went to see my carriage at noon one day to make sure that it was in good condition, and met the vice-legate who knew me from meeting me at the legate’s, and must have been aware that I was poaching on his preserves.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And after they have arrived at years of discretion by the care of their parents, are the inconveniencies attending their separation more certain than their foresight of these inconveniencies and their care of avoiding them by a close union and confederacy?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Nor is this situation peculiar to the Southern United States, is it not rather the only method by which undeveloped races have gained the right to share modern culture?
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

On the Saturday in that same week, I took my leave of Herbert,—full of bright hope, but sad and sorry to leave me,—as he sat on one of the seaport mail coaches.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

As for myself, I rejoice at the condition thou art in, and will be subservient to thee in all that thou sendest to me about; for when by my subjects I have cut down many and large trees of cedar and cypress wood, I will send them to sea, and will order my subjects to make floats of them, and to sail to what place soever of thy country thou shalt desire, and leave them there, after which thy subjects may carry them to Jerusalem.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

“Harmon, you’ve showed a pretty fair knack of getting away outside tackles,” said Mr. Cade.
— from Left Half Harmon by Ralph Henry Barbour

This splendid museum communicated with the apartment wherein the company (which was by no means numerous on the occasion) was assembled.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

I give you that clearance paper on condition that you was to tell me how to salvage that there bark without havin' to shift my cargo to get at the small boat."
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

So we were obliged to suffer her presence; but I am afraid that I was uncharitable enough to wish that she might catch a bad sore throat for her pains, or else something that would keep her from coming again.
— from A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn

Her worst fault was the way she treated her son, whom she starved apparently that she might continue able to beat him.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

[Pg 201] "Then," said my companion, "make no further investigations in this direction."
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

"On thy | shady | margin, Care its | load dis | -charging, Is lull'd | to gen | -tle rest : Britain | thus dis | -arming, Nothing | her a | -larming, Shall sleep on Cæ | -sar's breast ."
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown