The philosophical method here designated may have been engendered in the sixteenth century—it may have been more accurately defined and more extensively applied in the seventeenth; but neither in the one nor in the other could it be commonly adopted.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

This is due to temperature of a 104° from malaria, also dysentery, and mild enteritis, apart from my bruise.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

Similar conditions obtain here as at the other ports, namely, that the missionaries are doing a most excellent work and in a very real sense, the most practical and helpful work that is being done with the arriving immigrant.
— from Ports of Entry: Missionary Herald by Council of Women for Home Missions

[477] The prince represented to his father his views on the subject, which were instantly adopted—a question of taste in that family meets with no opposition—and all was to have been arranged according to the ideas of the heir of France, who seemed inclined to make Pau an abode at a future day : the King was to have visited the interesting old castle: much animated discussion and much enthusiasm prevailed on the subject in the interior of the royal circle, and the Berceau of Henri Quatre seemed destined to proud days again.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Other and more deadly methods are discussed, and may even be employed.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

You remember our arrival one morning at daybreak and my eagerness to see the flock.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

One day, while yet new to the colony, and to the ways of ostriches, I was standing with T——by the side of one of the camps, looking over the fence at the birds, and much amused by the curious, dancing manner in which the creatures moved, as if hung on wires; when suddenly one of them, with a motion as quick as lightning, made a dash at my earring, a little round knob of gold, exactly the size and colour of a mealie (Indian corn seed), for which perhaps he took it; and I only drew back just in time to save it—and probably a piece of the ear with it—from going down his throat.
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.

Before the chains had time to rust I plodded through the mud and dust As many exiles erst had trod, Their footprints often stained with blood.
— from The Passing of the Storm, and Other Poems by Alfred Castner King

I lost no time in beginning my capers again and doing the most abandoned deed a man ever accomplished on earth!"
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Had Nogam, as he had meekly insisted on being questioned subsequent to his subjugation, truly delivered the two messages as directed and, miraculously escaping his fate decreed, returned to Frampton Court by the twelve-three, likewise in strict conformance with instructions?
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

To Chelsea, where we found my lord all alone, with one joint of meat at dinner, and mightily extolling the manner of his retirement, and the goodness of his diet; the mistress of the house hath all things most excellently dressed; amongst other things her cakes admirable, and so good, that my lord’s words were, they were fit to present to Lady Castlemaine . .
— from Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times by George Bryan