Spectator , I am one of those whom every Body calls a Pocher, and sometimes go out to course with a Brace of Greyhounds, a Mastiff, and a Spaniel or two; and when I am weary with Coursing, and have killed Hares enough, go to an Ale-house to refresh my self.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Toward evening, the gale still blowing with fury, a large field in front separated, and we were enabled, by carrying a press of sail to force a passage through the smaller flakes into some open water beyond.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In the villages on Easter morning the peasants bring baskets with eggs, bread, cheese, and perhaps a sausage, to church, and standing in two rows have them consecrated.
— from The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska, Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa

In a larger compartment which each box contains, are placed several slips bearing a printed sentence; for example, Throw down your handkerchief .
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

The common ground in all these mooted portions of Scripture is really a large and wealthy place; but only a common spiritual purpose will ever bring conservatives and progressives together in the knowledge and peace of God.
— from The Bible and Life by Edwin Holt Hughes

27 The ἁρμάμαξα was a large four-wheeled waggon, enclosed by curtains and provided with a καμάρα or roof.
— from Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution by Ralph Straus

This might be tenable, if there had been no such rite as baptism by water enjoined by Christ and practised by the Apostles as the necessary and universal method of admission to the Christian Church.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

Towards evening, the gale still blowing with fury, a large field in front separated, and we were enabled, by carrying a press of sail, to force a passage through the smaller flakes into some open water beyond.
— from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. by Edgar Allan Poe

How important this point of the compass was esteemed by Christian and pagan architects is proved by the practice of orientation—the word itself marks out the idea.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Now let me try," and she took her turn on the bench while Ethel Blue counted and pulled laboriously, "Number One, Number Two, Make Ready."
— from Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Humanity, when surfeited with emotion, becomes calm, almost phlegmatic.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy