So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

The building was commenced on the 30th of April, 1827, when the Duke of Sussex laid the first stone, in the presence of a large concourse of noblemen and gentlemen.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) by Various

For the supervision of this great work the Society had only eleven European missionaries and two schoolmasters, assisted by a large class of native agents who are themselves the fruits of mission toil, and some of whom, once degraded and cannibal heathens, are becoming valuable and accredited ministers of the gospel.”
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

618 In a late census of Norway, above two thousand lepers were found in that small kingdom; but the Scandinavian physicians do not confound together syphilis and Greek elephantiasis, and have no difficulty in distinguishing them.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

For this occasion the studied ambiguity of the Cincinnati platform made possible a last coöperation of North and South, in the face of carefully concealed mental reservations, to secure a presidential victory.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

An army of three thousand Spaniards besides a large contingent of natives advanced across the Biobio.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Tommy's exhibition was appreciated with almost delirious enthusiasm on the verandah, and a little crowd of natives at the gate pushed and nudged each other with an admiration quite as heartfelt though carefully suppressed.
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

After taking this precaution we drove out into the country, or rather the suburbs, to look at a large collection of native arms, from this and the surrounding islands.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Mírzá Muṣṭafá Naráqí Among that company of pure and goodly souls was Mírzá Muṣṭafá, a leading citizen of Naráq and one of the earliest believers.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá