The boy might climb the nest in thy young boughs That's slept half an eternity; in fear The herdsman may have left his startled cows For shelter when heaven's thunder voice was near; Here too the woodman on his wallet laid For pillow may have slept an hour away; And poet pastoral, lover of the shade, Here sat and mused half some long summer day
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

[Headnote 1: BASQUES, ( basks ), an ancient and peculiar people, living on the slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains.]
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders

At the Killarney Presentation Convent at Newton Barry, [1235] and Cappoquin, drawn linen work in the style of {446} the Italian reticella, and at Parsonstown pillow laces of the same character as Honiton are made.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Margaret stood listening, calmly obstinate, her head a little bent, while she straightened the magazines and picture papers lying on the slab of the bureau with her finger-tips.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

[1], Fara, Zurghul, and Babylon [2], no similar remains had been found in Babylonia until, in 1918, Capt. R. Campbell Thompson, exploring on behalf of the British Museum, discovered flint and obsidian flakes and painted pottery lying on the surface of the desert at Tell Abu Shahrein (ERIDU), and also at Tell Muqayyar (UR).
— from How to Observe in Archaeology Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East by British Museum