True it is, I confess, that afterwards many cities and towns in Britain, under the government of the Romans, were walled with stone and baked bricks or tiles, as Richborrow or Ryptacester, [5] in the Isle of Thanet, until the channel altered his course, beside Sandwich in Kent; Verulamium, [6] beside St. Albans, in Hertfordshire;
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They are spoken of as bestowing blessings on those mortals whom they select to be thus favoured; and again are called Bendith y Mamau, or their mother’s blessing, that is to say, good little children whom it is a pleasure to know.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

These interosseous arteries being branches of the ulnar artery, and being given off from the vessel at the bend of the elbow, if the bleeding be still kept up from the vessel wounded in the hand, after the ligature of the ulnar and radial arteries is accomplished, are in all probability the channels of communication, and in this case the brachial artery must be tied.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Afflicted with cretinism he remained a bachelor because of the horror inspired by the memory of his mother's immoral life; he was a confirmed idemiste , repeating, with slight variation, the words of those with whom he was conversing.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

[pg 123] in the same place as before, but on the opposite side, so that Alyosha had to turn quite round to face him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There can be no doubt we would all be broken on the wheel; but for God’s sake, do not forget, as you yourself said, Athos, that we only write to him concerning a family affair; that we only write to him to entreat that as soon as Milady arrives in London he will put it out of her power to injure us.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Château-Renaud was at his post; apprised by Beauchamp of the circumstances, he required no explanation from Albert.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For not only do some say that obedience is always due to the traditionally legitimate authority in any country, while others maintain that an authority constituted in accordance with [297] certain abstract principles is essentially legitimate, and that a nation has a right to claim that such an authority shall be established, even at the risk of civil strife and bloodshed: but often, too, the authority actually established is not even traditionally legitimate.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

But they are recorded as being black on the earliest monuments known to us, and within a few centuries of the Deluge.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

No gold was, however, within—only a big bag of thick hide heavily riveted with copper, and securely fastened with bolt and lock.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux

You can have no idea what pains I suffered as a boy because of this fear," said Cap'n Abe.
— from Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

"Even if he didn't know before," continued her sister, after a pause in which she had apparently been brooding over the indifference of the young man in question, "he ought to have made himself known after I told him who I was."
— from The Deserter by Charles King

The natives are busy burning on the ranges some distance west of this and have been burning daily ever since we came on the creek, and I suppose are still unaware of our presence or they would have paid us a visit.
— from McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay

The termination in ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the positive, as black , blackish , or tending to blackness; salt , saltish , or having a little taste of salt; they therefore admit no comparison.
— from A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

I ought to have had him without waiting for a warrant, but the responsibility was a bit bigger one than I cared to take.
— from The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh

The ten gentlemen are costumed in white coats trimmed around the bottom, the sleeves and collar with black cambric two inches in width, and ornamented with gold; a black belt of the same material encircles the waist; black pants or breeches; white hose reaching to the knee, and fastened with a silver band and buckle; low shoes, with a blue rosette on the front.
— from Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head