Θρέμμα, ατος, τό, ( τρέφω ) that which is reared; pl. cattle, Jno. 4.12.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

we now dismounted and the Chief with much cerimony put tippets about our necks such as they temselves woar I redily perceived that this was to disguise us and owed it's origine to the same cause already mentioned.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To which I reply promptly and significantly: ‘Edward Whittington!’
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Those who in rightful purple are arrayed, The prideful vanquisher, like vanquished, fade.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Now the change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity, and becomes absurd only by its immediate juxta-position with the fast thought, which is rendered possible by the whole attention being successively absorbed to each singly, so as not to notice the interjacent notion, changed, which by its incongruity, with the first thought, I, constitutes the bull.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To read a borrowed book may be a joy, but to assign your own book a place of its own on your own shelves—be they few or many—to love the book and feel of its worn cover, to thumb it over slowly, page by page, to pencil its margins in agreement or in protest, to smile or thrill with its remembered pungencies—no mere book borrower could ever sense all that delight.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

"Well," said Conseil, with the most serious air in the world, "I remember perfectly to have seen a large vessel drawn under the waves by an octopus's arm.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Who cut the wood into rectangular pieces of all different sizes?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

While the foregoing conversation was proceeding, Master Wackford, finding himself unnoticed, and feeling his preponderating inclinations strong upon him, had by little and little sidled up to the table and attacked the food with such slight skirmishing as drawing his fingers round and round the inside of the plates, and afterwards sucking them with infinite relish; picking the bread, and dragging the pieces over the surface of the butter; pocketing lumps of sugar, pretending all the time to be absorbed in thought; and so forth.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In this way rhythm and rhyme are partly a means of holding our attention, because we willingly follow the poem read, and partly they produce in us a blind consent to what is read prior to any judgment, and this gives the poem a certain emphatic power of convincing independent of all reasons.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is true, we have found a succession of the meridian altitudes of the Biblical days in the same order in which, according to the Biblical relation, the days' works followed one another; but we have found in the total course of the Biblical days that their works in reality passed on in long lines contemporaneously with one another.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

But he is wrong in saying that, "Whenever a noun is of the second person, it is in the nominative case independent;" ( Ib. , p. 130;) and still more so, in supposing that, "The principle contained in the note" [which tells what interjections require ,] " proves that every noun of the second person is in the nominative case."— Ib. , p. 164.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

I said nothing in reply, but leaving him where he was, ran to a tavern hard by upon Tower Hill, called The Tiger , whence I returned presently with a flask of strong wine.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

Before Darwin, many men of science were evolutionists: after Darwin, all men of science became so at once, and the rest of the world is rapidly preparing to follow their leadership.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

The West is rapidly progressing in civilization, in arts and sciences, and in theology as well.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery

On the whole, it retards progress, just as in the case of vessels keeping company on the water, the speed obtained is somewhat less than that of the slowest of the convoy.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

“He rattled off the words in rapid Pennsylvania Dutch, at which the children laughed and some whispered, “Why, he can talk the Dutch, too!”
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers