In the same season the Haymarket produced Hamlet as an opera by Gasparini, called Ambleto , with an overture that had four movements ending in a jig.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

THE THIRD STORY Day the Eighth CALANDRINO, BRUNO AND BUFFALMACCO GO COASTING ALONG THE MUGNONE IN SEARCH OF THE HELIOTROPE AND CALANDRINO THINKETH TO HAVE FOUND IT.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Sak-an ku ang ákung útang nímu, I’ll work off my debt to you by gathering coconuts.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But Guy Clarence was not to be thwarted in his benevolence.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The more wealthy are distinguished by a vest, not flowing loose, like those of the Sarmatians and Parthians, but girt close, and exhibiting the shape of every limb.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

A well-trained and musically competent baritone, Herr Krug, afterwards the conductor of a choir in Karlsruhe, had also been discovered, so that all at once I stood at the head of a really good operatic company, among which the basso Graf could be fitted in only with great difficulty, by being kept as much as possible in the background.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

tyht I. (i) m. instruction, training, habit , Bo : going, course, motion, progress , El : region , Gu 1255.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

These peoples are nearly all pagans, though a few are being gradually converted to Mohammedanism, and some to Christianity.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Here we assembled at the foot of this mighty wall of mountain, under a spreading walnut tree; a brawling stream refreshed the green sward by its sprinkling; and the busy grasshopper chirped among the thyme.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Maud continued to mutter in a low tone after the man had left, but Gray could not closely distinguish what she said, and he remained for some time perfectly quiet, resolving in his mind what he should do.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

CHRYSOBERYL is a gem of yellowish or brownish green colour, harder than quartz ( 76 ), and sometimes transparent; but often only semi-transparent, in which case it exhibits a bluish light, floating in the interior of the stone.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

The thought of his Princess waiting on a tombstone that must be growing colder every moment, for the sun was setting, made him at last so impatient that he rang the bell.
— from The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Her niece was a bright, gay creature, and would be just the one to cheer Dorothy up.
— from Pretty Madcap Dorothy; Or, How She Won a Lover by Laura Jean Libbey

This stern parent liked to think of himself as generous, compassionate, and tender-hearted; and he had been grievously cheated out of this agreeable sensation.
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam

—Parenthetic words, phrases, and clauses, whether used at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence, are set off by commas when they cause a marked interruption between grammatically connected parts [Pg 261 ] of the sentence.
— from News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer

But William of Malmesburie is of a contrarie opinion, affirming that Iulius Cesar made those bathes, or rather repaired them when he was here in England: which is not like to be true: for Iulius Cesar, as by good coniecture we haue to thinke, neuer came so farre within the land that way forward.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) The Second Booke Of The Historie Of England by Raphael Holinshed

(Bowling Green) Children's game.
— from Bright Ideas for Entertaining by Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs.

If by accident some correspondent or newspaper secured the account of an engagement, which ventured so much as to hint with some picturesqueness of detail how Englishmen were dying, the Press Bureau guillotine came down on the narrative with a crash which taught the offender to mend his ways for the future.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile