Slang at Babylon and Nineveh—Old English Slang—Slang in the time of Cromwell; and in the Court of Charles II.—Swift and Arbuthnot fond of Slang—The origin of “ Cabbage ”—“The Real Simon Pure”—Tom Brown and Ned Ward—Did Dr. Johnson compile a Slang Dictionary?—John Bee’s absurd etymology of Slang —The true origin of the term—Derived from the Gipseys—Burns and his fat friend, Grose—Slang used by all classes, High and Low—Slang in Parliament, and amongst our friends—New words not so reprehensible as old words burdened with strange meanings—The poor Foreigner’s perplexity—Long and windy Slang words—Vulgar corruptions 44–55 Fashionable Slang 58 Parliamentary Slang 60 Military and Dandy Slang 62 University Slang 64 Religious Slang 66 Legal Slang , or Slang amongst the Lawyers 70 Literary Slang , Punch on “Slang and Sanscrit” 71 Theatrical Slang , or Slang both before and behind the curtain 75 Civic Slang 77 Slang Terms for Money —Her Majesty’s coin is insulted by one hundred and thirty distinct Slang terms—Old Slang terms for money—The classical origin of Slang money terms—The terms used by the Ancient Romans vulgarisms in the Nineteenth Century 78–82 Shopkeepers’ Slang 82 Workmen’s Slang , or Slang in the workshop—Many Slang terms for money derived from operatives 83 Slang Apologies for Oaths , or sham exclamations for passion and temper—Slang swearing 85 Slang Terms for Drunkenness , and the graduated scale of fuddlement and intoxication 86 DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR WORDS ; many with their etymologies traced, together with illustrations, and references to authorities 89–249 Some Account of the Back Slang , the secret language of Costermongers—The principle of the Back Slang—Boys and girls soon acquire it—The Back Slang unknown to the Police—Costermongers’ terms for money—Arithmetic amongst the Costermongers 251–255 Glossary of Back Slang 257–262 Some Account of the Rhyming Slang , the secret language of Chaunters and Patterers—The origin of the Rhyming Slang—Spoken principally by Vagabond Poets, Patterers, and Cheap Jacks—Patterers “well up” in Street Slang—Curious Slang Letter from a Chaunter 263–268 Glossary of the Rhyming Slang 269–273 The Bibliography of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Language , or a list of the books which have been consulted in the compilation of this work, comprising nearly every known treatise upon the subject 275–290 List of Abbreviations 291 Opinions of the Press upon the First Edition of this work—List of New Publications, &c. 293–300 THE HISTORY OF CANT,
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Near the tunnel was a flight of steps leading down to the line—just wooden bars roughly fixed into the earth—a very steep and narrow way, more like a ladder than a stair.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

They were only a few oars' strokes from the reef, and Jurgen sprang from his seat and stood up in the bow.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The very touch of the eternal in the two sexual tastes brings them the more into antagonism; for one stands for a universal vigilance and the other for an almost infinite output.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

This morning, with the help of a table-knife that I had secreted at breakfast, I succeeded in breaking open a fairly obvious secret drawer in this wrecked writing-desk.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

2 [a2] fight over s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Aelian, Pliny, Peter Gillius, are full of such relations.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the beds of all these streams are formed of smooth pebble and gravel, and their waters perfectly transparent; in short they are three noble streams.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"No; that was only imaginative—I might say, a figure of speech," said the other.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

“He is a faithful old servant, and will fight for us to the death; but remember that you are governor of the castle.”
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

The silver thread of the Garigliano lies below, with towns studded on its banks; long ranges of mountains of the 141 most beautiful outline break the horizon, billow after billow of intensest blue, crested as with a foam of snow.
— from Virgin Saints and Martyrs by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Even a female of sense and spirit has been permitted to command the countrymen of Zenobia.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

There was something touching in the mingled shame and anger of the proud boy as he made his confession, not sparing himself, and full of scorn at those who had tempted him.
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

Her mother went cheerily on: "So Frank and I got up early and fixed our share of the luncheon, and prepared and ate our own breakfast, and now we are all ready."
— from The Girl Scout's Triumph; or, Rosanna's Sacrifice by Katherine Keene Galt

A flock of sheep was running, with all the precipitation which fear could inspire, from the pursuit of a large Page 409 dog; and just as Tommy approached, the dog had overtaken a lamb, and seemed disposed to devour it.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

The curing room itself may be freed from the mold spores by the use of such standard disinfectants as formalin or sulphur.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

Men were plowing with many yoke of oxen in the wheat-fields; elsewhere there were green pastures with herds of horses grazing in them, an abundance of brown pigs, and flocks of sheep with small lambs plaintively bleating.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

Their numbers were fifty thousand; but except some pieces of artillery, five or six hundred men armed like cavalry, and a few score of stipendiary English archers, they were the disorderly population of the city.
— from The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Mills