He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple, Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily, thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, a fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an enamoured knight-errant.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

from the act passed by the Georgia legislature on December 20, 1828, “to add the territory within this state and occupied by the Cherokee Indians to the counties of DeKalb et al., and to extend the laws of this state over the same.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Whilst the latter is usually blazoned as a wild boar or sanglier, the latter is just a boar; but for all practical purposes no difference whatever is made in heraldic representations of these varieties, though it may be noted that the crest of Swinton is often described as a sanglier, as invariably is also the crest of Douglas, Earl of Morton
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

They are literally bound up with these changes; our desires, emotions, and affections are but various ways in which our doings are tied up with the doings of things and persons about us.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I threw the clothes off dear Ellen that I might gaze on all her young charms.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

plangka n service switch, the switch on a service box used to connect or disconnect electricity to a house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The chain of distinct existences into which Hume thus chopped up our 'stream' was adopted by all of his successors as a complete inventory of the facts.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And that for these things' sake, "cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience" (Eph. 5:6).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

"I am," said he, roused either to courage or desperation, even in the presence of a being whose power he felt conscious was not derived from one common source with his own.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

There are indications that copies of deeds executed in the provinces were sent to the capital.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

That marvelous delicacy of hearing, which was one of the characteristics of Deerfoot, enabled him not only to assure himself of the precise direction of the sound, but to fix the point whence it came.
— from Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He became painter to the court of Dresden; every fresh work gave proof of his progress in the art.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

With the pressure of these, she lay so much to leeward before striking (and perhaps her cargo had shifted), that the poor blackies rolled down the deck like pickling walnuts on a tray; and they had not even the chance of dying each in his own direction.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

They depend entirely upon charity, and send out their chelas, or disciples, every morning to skirmish for food among the market men and people in the neighborhood.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

The young female artists have excited the admiration of their teachers and examiners by the remarkable perfection to which they carry ornamental designs, especially such as may be derived from flowers, fruits, and leaves.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

It was a brilliant opportunity to capture or destroy eight hundred British troops led by a dashing naval officer, Captain Mulcaster.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine