" BRADLEY, ARTHUR OF, a lively character commemorated in ballads. BRAKE, frame for confining a horse's feet while being shod, or strong curb or bridle; trap.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

I had manufactured a sort of sceptre or magic wand with the branch of olive brought by Franzia from Cesena.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them, at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The name of the architect of the church is unknown; but it seems fairly attested that the campanile was built by Fra Filippo Campello, who later on became the architect of the church erected by the Assisans, on the site of San Giorgio, in honour of Santa Chiara, or Clara, the first female convert of St. Francis, the foundress of the "Poor Clares." THE TOWER, SAN FRANCESCO.
— from Pictures in Umbria by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

And most of these made the needles rusty, from being stuffed with damp pig-meal, when the pigs and the pincushions were both being fattened for Christmas.
— from A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

For instance, nothing could have been better fortified for centuries than the fact that night air is injurious and should be shut out of house.
— from Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth

A bell beat five from Chagford Church tower, and the notes came drowsily through morning mists.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

The horses found amongst the Northern Tehuelches are, as a rule, larger than those previously mentioned, with finer heads and smaller legs; they are also extremely swift, and being bred frequently from captured wild mares, are admirably adapted for hunting purposes.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

The portions remaining unsold after the expiration of five years could be bought for fifty cents per acre.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

Paper enough for the making of Christmas greens to decorate an ordinary room quite lavishly may be bought for fifty cents or less.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

In each arrondissement there are also what are called cantines économiques, where a mess of soup made from vegetables and a small quantity of meat can be bought for five centimes.
— from Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

The miserable, transparent, insulting fallacy that runs through this statement, is also found in almost all Sir Robert Peel's speeches on the famine, namely, that there was not food enough in Ireland for its people; and that it must be brought from foreign countries through the channels of commerce.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon