This document would perhaps have thrown light on the matter, but unfortunately recent search by several parties has failed to trace it.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem[Lat], dedecorous[obs3]; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Aunt was tired and went to sleep, but Uncle read his guidebook, and wouldn't be astonished at anything.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"They are storm-clouds driving along beneath us," replied her mother.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Bísag usa ray makasalà, lasirun (ilasid) ming tanan ug búnal ni Máma, Mother whips everybody even if only one of us does s.t. wrong.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The consubstantiality of the Father and the Son was established by the council of Nice, and has been unanimously received as a fundamental article of the Christian faith, by the consent of the Greek, the Latin, the Oriental, and the Protestant churches.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Thus governments, political systems, and political rights have been the subjects of study and improvement; changes adapted to the advance of society are made; experiments are tried, based upon reason and upon judgment, and those are safest which in their gradual introduction avoid unnecessary violence and convulsion.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Observing Mr. Barnum's surprise, he continued: "The fact is, Mr. Barnum, upon reading your autobiography, I thought I perceived you tried to make yourself out worse than you really were; for I discovered a pleasant spirit and a good heart under the rougher exterior in which you chose to present yourself to the public; but," he added, "after reading your life, I found myself in possession of renewed strength, and awakened energies and aspirations, and I said to myself, 'Why can't I go ahead and make money, as Barnum did?
— from A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton

For David's sake and my sake you must see that they are brought up right.
— from Winter Evening Tales by Amelia E. Barr

Grimm Bros. Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings.
— from How Girls Can Help Their Country by Juliette Gordon Low

Knight noticed that the busy bird usually returned with a tiny silver fish in his bill, and mentally commended him for his good fishing.
— from The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies by Frank Worthington

“With the heart man believeth unto righteousness;” “He that doeth the will of my Father will know the doctrine, whether it be of God;” “Unless you believe you cannot understand;” “A heart naturally Christian;” “The heart makes the theologian,” are the phrases which best express the first action of Christianity upon the world.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

2, 3, e´.—What is here called the Lingua in Hymenoptera has been usually regarded as the Labium ; but surely that organ which collects, and as it were laps the honey, and passes it down to the Pharynx , is properly to be considered as the tongue.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

After some delay the premiership was bestowed upon Rudini, now leader of the Right.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

[37] “Machinery has hitherto been used,” recorded the commissioners of the Erie Canal, “with most success, in the [Pg 125] heavy business of grubbing and clearing.
— from The Great American Canals (Volume 2, The Erie Canal) by Archer Butler Hulbert