Then the sentinel, who heard our discourse on the poop was examined, and informed the court that the Welshman assured me, Captain Oakum and Doctor Mackshane would toss upon billows of burning brimstone in hell for their barbarity.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the first place, the home of the Vedic tribes is revealed to us by the geographical data which the hymns yield.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

little woarn.—we yet want another canoe, and as the Clatsops will not sell us one at a price which we can afford to give we will take one from them in lue of the six Elk which they stole from us in the winter.- The pellucid jellylike substance, called the sea-nettle is found in great abundance along the strad where it has been thrown up by the waves and tide.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

—Jesus Christ did not wish to unite but to separate them, as in the parable of sheep and goats; and [30] He says: “I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
— from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Nor must we pass by in silence the story of the blessed Gregory, handed down to us by the tradition of our ancestors, which explains his earnest care for the salvation of our nation.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

“Aye, aye, we're coming,” Seth answered from within, and presently appeared stooping under the doorway, being taller than usual by the black head of a sturdy two-year-old nephew, who had caused some delay by demanding to be carried on uncle's shoulder.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

And the same applies to our knowledge of other people's minds, or of any other class of things of which no instance is known to us by acquaintance.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Catchbet , a bet made for the purpose of entrapping the unwary by means of a paltry subterfuge. See CHERRY COLOUR .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“That’s true,” replied d’Artagnan; “I have not the uniform, but I have the spirit.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The conqueror, it is true, usually, by the force he has over them, compels them, with a sword at their breasts, to stoop to his conditions, and submit to such a government as he pleases to afford them; but the enquiry is, what right he has to do so?
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Such is now the smiling aspect of things as you see them at Bijou, which crowns the heights over the great Bijou marsh, etc., the dwelling of Andrew Thomson, Esq., (now President of the Union Bank of Quebec.)
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Upon the fort refusing to do so, the Rebels closed in with their usual battle cry, “No Quarter”.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

But the girl felt no softening of the heart; that strange fire was still burning in her, and she could only think of the cruel words, the unjust blow.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Many old designs, which had not been printed for thirty or forty years, have been taken up by us and done in colors to suit the taste of the period, and we find that few of the new drawings excel or even approach the old ones in interest.
— from Old Time Wall Papers An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration by Kate Sanborn

The two remain distinct; the union between them is of a federal kind.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

The unwieldy barge sluggishly answered this powerful pressure, and under the stroke of the three oars began to head diagonally across the current and move slowly toward the farther shore.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

27 Since writing the above I have read the following words of a candidly unsympathetic friend of philosophy: “Neither philosophy nor science can institute man’s relation to the universe, because such reciprocity must have existed before any kind of science or philosophy can begin; since each investigates phenomena by means of the intellect, and independent of the position and feeling of the investigator; whereas the relation of man to the universe is defined, not by the intellect alone, but by his sensitive perception aided by all his spiritual powers.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey

Otherwise the usual bribery and corruption continued unchecked.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Of this number, twelve were known to have been killed, fifty-three wounded, and of the twelve reported "missing in action" several were supposed to have been killed or wounded, and consumed in the burning of the underbrush between the contending lines.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White