" "I didn't think she would upset so easily," replied Charles.
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

la uie of the same, and it is nat yet come to my knowlege that dicelluy, et il nest point encore uenu a ma congnoissance que the holy scripture doth make of it any mention; but syth that your lescripture saincte en face mention aulcune; mais puisque uostre Page 1053 pleasure is suche, I shall recyte you (submyttyng me to the correction of plaisir est tel, je uous réciteray (me soubmetant a la correction de your grace, and of all persons connyng) that whiche I have therof gathered uostre grace, et de toute persone scauante) ce que jen ay peu ceulliér from the philosophers, and of the holy s. Isodore, wherfore it shall please you to knowe des philosophes, et de saint Isidore; pourquoy il uous plaira scauoir that all thynges created of God under the moone ben or elemented que touttes choses créez de Dieu soubz le globe lunaire sont ou ellementées onely, as precious stones and other with all mettalles, or seullement, come pierres precieuses et aultres auec tous metaulz, ou be elemented and vegetables, as herbes, trees, and all maner sont ellementées et uegetables, come herbes, arbres, et touttes manieres of plantes, or ben elemented vegetables and sensytyves, as ben de plantes, ou sont elementées uegetables et sensitiues, come sont all beestes, byrdes, fyshes, reptyll them movyng from place to other, touttes bestes, oiseaulz, poissons, reptiles se mouuant de lieu a aultre, or ben elemented vegetables sensytyves and reasonable, as ben the ou sont elementées uegetables sensitiues et racionelles, come sont les men whiche have in them all the fours proprietees above sayd; hommes lesquelz ont en eulz touttes les quatre proprietes dessus dictes; for as touchyng the body (which is a masse elemented) it is but a car quant au corps (qui est une masse elementée) ce nest que une conglutination and combination of the foure elementes in the whiche our conglutination, et combination des quatre elementes ezquelz nostre Lorde hath planted the soule vegetable by the whiche it groweth in length, Seigneur a planté lame uegetable par laquelle il croist en longeur, largenes, and depnes (whiche one calle thre dimensions) by cause that the largeur et profundité (quon dit trois dimensions) a cause que la sayd vegetable hath in her foure vertues, by the whiche she subsiste and dicte uegetable a en soy quatre uertus, par lesquelles elle subsiste et groweth, that is to saye, the atractyve or appetityve, the retentyve, the digestyve, croist, cest a scauoir, latractiue ou appetitiue, la retentyue, la degestiue, and expulsive; a body may nat ete without appetit, nor may nat et expulsiue; une personne ne peult menger sans appétit, ne ne peult Page 1054 degeste without holdyng that mete, or keping in his stomake that which is eten, degérér sans retenir ce qui est menge, nor may nat grow by the vertue of such degestion without expulsion or ne ne peult croistre par la uertu de telle degestion sans expulsion ou evacuation, for it is nede or to destroy the meate receyved in euaccuacion, car il est de necessité ou de destruire la uiande receue en the stomake, or to be destroied by the same; but to be wyllyng to warne your lestomac, ou estre destruit par icelle; mais uouloir aduertir uostre grace of all that which doth depend to this purpos, shulde be to be wyllyng to declare grace de tout ce qui depend a ce pourpos, seroit uoulloir declarér all the philosophy naturall withe all phisyque and astrologie toutte la philosophie naturelle auec toutte phisycque et astrologie in shewyng with all all the movyng of nature, wherof procede en comprenant tous les mouuemens de nature, dont procedent and sprynge all corruption and generation expoundyng
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

Upon the blockade, therefore, the generally accepted principles of warfare would demand that effort should be concentrated, until some evident radical change in the conditions dictated a change of object,—a new objective; upon which, when accepted, effort should again be concentrated, with a certain amount of "exclusiveness of purpose."
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

‘It is surely unnecessary,’ said Estella, rather coldly.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

et sustineantur competenter; et residuum ultra sustentationem eorundem rationabilem custodiatur ad opus ipsorum liberandum eis (eisdem) quando memoriam recuperaverint.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

You might say you think it good of him to come to see us,” she ended, rather crossly.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

about a [58] thousand yards from the Hydaspes, near the modern village of Darapoor, we hit upon some extensive ruins called Oodeenuggur, which seems to have been a city that extended for three or four miles.
— from Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3) Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833 by Burnes, Alexander, Sir

From this time forward Sophronia continued mending, until she entirely recovered. CHAPTER XVI.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith