He was aroused from his reverie by receiving a heavy blow on the shoulder and hearing a rough voice exclaim: “Now then, wake up; don’t stand there dreaming all day.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

But to escape the blaze which blinds his foes, And render vain each necromantic sleight, Have here a speedy mean which cannot miss; Nor can the world afford a way but this.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

At that Village I lay all Night, and rising very early next Morning, I told my Landlady that I would go to Toul on Foot, and desir’d her to send my Boots according to a Direction I left with her.
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von

MacLennan does not regard exogamy as having originated in times of peace, nor even as representing voluntarily established norms of custom.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

R78403, 15May51, Frederick William Roe (A) ROE, VINGIE E. Nameless river.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office