Touching the next postern, called Moregate, I find that Thomas Falconer, mayor, about the year 1415, the third of Henry V., caused the wall of the city to be broken near unto Coleman street, and there built a postern, now called Moregate, upon the moor side where was never gate before.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

When the girl cannot make up her mind, or will not express her readiness to marry, the man should obtain her in any one of the following ways:— (1).
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

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— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Res continuas metimur Ulnâ , 1. liquidas Congio , 2. aridas Medimno , 3.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

—In a fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling,—he might march.—He will never march; an' please your honour, in this world, said the corporal:—He will march; said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed, with one shoe off:—An' please your honour, said the corporal, he will never march but to his grave:—He shall march, cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advanceing an inch,—he shall march to his regiment.—He cannot stand it, said the corporal;—He shall be supported, said my uncle Toby;—He'll drop at last, said the corporal, and what will become of his boy?—He shall not drop, said my uncle Toby, firmly.—A-well-o'day,—do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,—the poor soul will die:—He shall not die, by G.., cried my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

This event conveys many useful lessons to a thoughtful observer.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I have written to say that if the Professors can make up their minds they wish me to stand, I will—if not, I will not.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The bridegroom-elect goes to the girl’s cousins (maternal uncle’s sons), who have a right to marry her, and presents them with four annas and betel.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

A strange and providential circumstance makes us doubt the innocence of the Count, and though the means of his escape from the castle be unknown to us, we persist in thinking him guilty as accused."
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

Then candour, most uncommon in our age, reveals the feelings, the God expelling all guile.
— from Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes by Ovid

The servant who is daily employed to wash and comb the dog, is perhaps never sent upon an errand of mercy to any of the distressed families around the mistress, and a wayworn group of children may unavailingly solicit the luxurious food which is placed before the pampered pet , without shame or scruple.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 02, July 11, 1840 by Various

The four trip-hammers—two bull-headed, two calf-headed—champed, like carnivorous maws, upon red bars of iron, and over their banquet they roared the big-toned music of the trip-hammer chorus,— "Now, then! hit hard!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various