Again, attracted by loud eager singing, the student found a pair who were apparently fighting,—the peaceful goldfinch!
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

It has been inferred, after careful inquiry, that slaves in the Spanish and Portuguese settlements are not always incompetent as witnesses, while the Code Noir of Louis the Fourteenth, amidst ungenerous prohibitions, allowed their evidence to be heard, “as a suggestion, or unauthenticated information, which might throw light on the evidence of other witnesses,” and afterwards, by later edict, sanctioned the testimony of slaves, “when white witnesses were wanting, except against their masters.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Against a hostile Serbia and an unreliable Roumania resort was to be had to Bulgaria and Turkey, with a view to the establishment of a Balkan League, excluding Serbia, to be formed under the ægis of the Central Powers.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount

From General Washington's own files derives a broadside listing early subscribers throughout the state.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

One need not invite slang into the company of its betters, though perhaps slang has been dropping its “s” and becoming language ever since the world began, and is certainly sometimes delightful and forcible beyond the reach of the dictionary.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

The great storm, announced and prepared by the 'Spirit of Allstedt,' broke loose even sooner than could have been expected.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

How was she ever to hope to guide a boy like Erskine successfully through its snares, without even a pastor to lean upon?
— from Ruth Erskine's Son by Pansy

One need not invite slang into the company of its betters, though perhaps slang has been dropping its "s" and becoming language ever since the world began, and is certainly sometimes delightful and forcible beyond the reach of the dictionary.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Of this hospitality much arises from the natural temper of the people; much from the natural curiosity connected with the arrival of a stranger in a district where intercourse is unfrequent; and some portion perhaps derivable from ancient custom; for, as Leland observes, hospitality was not only a principal virtue amongst these rude people, but was even enjoined by law; and as neither lords nor tenants were bound to each other, as the whole tribe might migrate to some more favourable district, the ancient Brehon laws expressly stipulate that no rath shall break up suddenly, lest the traveller should be disappointed of his expected reception.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford