Still his remark bears much truth, and proof of this would have been found long ago if any scholar had taken the trouble to examine the “barbarous jargon of Cant,” and to have compared it with Gipsy speech.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Lo, what befell!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If Miss d’Arnault stopped practising for a moment and went toward the window, she saw this hideous little pickaninny, dressed in an old piece of sacking, standing in the open space between the hollyhock rows, his body rocking automatically, his blind face lifted to the sun and wearing an expression of idiotic rapture.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

The name of Duguay-Trouin suggests the mention, before finally leaving the War of the Spanish Succession, of his greatest privateering expedition, carried to a distance from home rarely reached by the seamen of his occupation, and which illustrates curiously the spirit of such enterprises in that day, and the shifts to which the French government was reduced.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

2 [B46] for liquid to leak out of a container or boat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle, as she held her hands over it: it was a wonderful light.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“Then into Corn hyl anon I rode, Where was much stolen gere amonge; I saw where honge myne owne hoode, That I had lost amonge the thronge: To by my own hoode I thought it wronge; I knew it well as I did my crede, But for lack of money I could not spede.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

2 [B] for land to lose its fertility.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Metre (Gr. μέτρον , a measure ) is the definite measurement of verse by feet, lines, strophes, systems, &c. 2513.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This certainly would have been a mortal offence in a Calvinist or Anabaptist, but for Lutherans the practise had never been so strict.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

With the Bread Famine looming in sight—largely made by Drink—the Prohibition Navy from the West flings in her power against the submarines.
— from The Fiddlers; Drink in the Witness Box by Arthur Mee

Our regiment was ordered to advance, and I led on my company; the bullets flew like hail.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

He was not addicted to indulgence, but neither was he particularly abstemious, and tea brewed from leaves which had been infused once or [Pg 296] twice already was not a beverage he appreciated or one that tended to make him more companionable.
— from Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

how endure the slow torture of passing hour after hour, and day after day, shut up with her invalid aunt, listening to her endless fretting and complaining, her reproaches for having brought her away from the home where she was so comfortable, the physician who so thoroughly understood her constitution, wearing her out with the long journey with really no object but a wild-goose chase after the unattainable; for now she was quite [Pg 284] convinced that her sister would have been found long since had she been in the land of the living.
— from Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley

Already the brimming fireplace leaked forth across the carpet in little gray, gusty flakes of ash and cinder.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The broad, sanguine plashes on the pavements showed that the battle had been fought, long and desperately, within the walls.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly