So in Baden the children collected fuel from house to house for the midsummer bonfire on St. John’s Day; and lads and lasses leaped over the fire in couples.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He sent a shaggy, tatter'd, 160 staring slave, That, when he speaks, draws out his grisly beard, And winds it twice or thrice about his ear; Whose face has been a grind-stone for men's swords; His hands are hack'd, some fingers cut quite off; Who, when he speaks, grunts like a hog, and looks Like one that is employ'd in catzery 161
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

The best-known essay is that on "Ancient and Modern Learning," but Lamb refers also to those "On Health and Long Life," "Of the Cure of the Gout," "Of Gardening."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

There was quite a long line of them reaching from the town-gate to the palace.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull-and-Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane and the regions of Newgate.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Swinging northward, the country in the vicinity of [here follows a long list of towns] will be scoured , ending at [a named mountain], which will then be thoroughly searched and devastated .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

At this instant the three friends turned, in spite of themselves, a last look on the rock, upon the menacing figure which pursued them and now stood out with a distinctness still.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

A few of the most common and well-known terms used out of doors, with reference to legal matters, are COOK , to hash or make up a balance-sheet; DIPPED , mortgaged; DUN , to solicit payment; FULLIED , to be “ fully committed for trial;” LAND-SHARK , a sailor’s definition of a lawyer; LIMB OF THE LAW , a milder term for the same “professional;” MONKEY WITH A LONG TAIL , a mortgage—phrase used in the well-known case for libel, Smith v. Jones; MOUTHPIECE , the coster’s term for his counsel; “to go through the RING ,” to take advantage of the Insolvency Act; SMASH , to become bankrupt; SNIPE , an attorney with a long bill; and WHITEWASHED , said of any debtor who has taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act.
— 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

There was a long list of them.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

licity—the original ground of Henchard's contempt for her—had allowed her to live on in the conviction that Newson had acquired a morally real and justifiable right to her by his purchase—though the exact bearings and legal limits of that right were vague.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The writings of Mr. Matthay will doubtless be better known in America a little later on than they are at present.
— from Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Harriette Brower

Lest any want of patriotism should be imputed to the second earl, Mr. Beadon reminded his listeners of how Geoffrey, the third earl, did his duty to his country, first as a member of Parliament for one of the divisions of Devonshire, when he showed the Whigs that the disfranchisement of his borough was not enough to keep a Clare out of Parliament, and afterward as Lord Lieutenant of the county; his duty to his sovereign by acting as Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty's household.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

He was not even startled out of this state when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers and landed loudly on the floor.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

“And lost lots of times, too, I s’pose.”
— from The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey

She was a born lady, and always lived like one till she saw Mandel; and that something academic that killed her for a writer was just the very thing for them.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where we can not act with success, nor suffer with honor, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of majesty from the delusions which surround it.
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education

"Pickings are always a little lean on the first few beats, but you can work some fairly well."
— from Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey

Admiring my sex as I do, here let me make my boast of them, and give a little list of the leading women contributors that was kindly furnished me by Miss Janet Hogarth 8 (head of the female staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica ).
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

viscount auchterhouse, Lord cardross and glendovachie, one of the Lords Commissioners of police, and Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Stirling and Clackmannan in North-Brittain.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

127-9, gives a long list of these resemblances.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft