Gradually from this time the word began to assume a place in periodical literature, and in novels written by not over-precise authors.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Here is the purchase list, and it needs but to be registered.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Gradually from this time the word began to assume a place in periodical literature, and in novels not written by squeamish or over-precise authors.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

1610 `And thenketh wel, that som tyme it is wit To spende a tyme, a tyme for to winne; Ne, pardee, lorn am I nought fro yow
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

At the foot of this slope is the port-town of Ouchy, a resort of Byron's in his sailing excursions; at the plain little Anchor inn near the quai (Byron called it a "wretched inn") he lodged, and here, being detained two days (June 26 and 27, 1816) by a storm which overtook him on his return from Chillon and Clarens, he wrote the touching "Prisoner of Chillon."
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

The litigation in which this case represents a minor issue has lasted for a period far exceeding that of the most pertinacious lawsuit, and is not likely to come to an end within any assignable limits of time.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

The portrait from that of Dr. Figdor, which we illustrate in colour, represents Lampi himself ( Plate LIII. ), and is not only a fine example of the artist's work, serious, and almost solemn in its aspect, but also peculiarly interesting as showing us what the painter himself was like.
— from Portrait Miniatures by George Charles Williamson

Despite the clamor of the hour he will know that the obligation to society is not the primal law, and is not the source of personal integrity, but is secondary to personal integrity.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

If the term "value of a color" is to be used as expressing something more than a neutral gray of such a tone as to seem equal to it, then possibly this latter quality must be expressed by the word tone, and yet this use of that word will seem to enlarge its scope beyond its present limits as it now is used to express the relations between the different localities in one scale of color, while this new use will extend to the comparison of tones in various color scales, including neutral grays.
— from Elementary Color by Milton Bradley

T o say this comedy pleased long ago, Is not enough to make it pass you now.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

The lacrymal sack, with its puncta lacrymalia, and its nasal duct, is a complete gland; and is singular in this respect, that it neither derives its fluid from, nor disgorges it into the circulation.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

[Pg 71] variation in their proportional lengths, and in number, in the same species.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Hull ale finds a place in proverbial lore, and is named by Ray and others.
— from England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

If I live, I am coming back some time, and then we'll go right on practising law as if nothing had happened.'
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson