Unfortunately, the string was still on his leg, and before long it got entangled in the branches of a tree and the Jackdaw couldn't get free, try as he would.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Though the expanse of water in the Bitter Lakes is great enough, the available channel is still narrow.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

They also determined, that ambassadors should be sent to Carthage, and also into Numidia, to Masinissa: to Carthage, to announce that "their countryman, Hamilcar, having been left in Gaul, (either with a part of the army formerly commanded by Hasdrubal, or with that of Mago--they did not with certainty know which,) was waging war, contrary to the treaty.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

The actual cause of the crash had been the failure of a large bank, which had ruined two important houses with which the firm of Stubbs & Co. had very large dealings; these houses were unable to pay their debts to Stubbs & Co.; and Stubbs & Co., having been living in great extravagance up to the last penny which could be squeezed out of the business, were not able to stand the strain of the unexpected losses.
— from Princess Sarah, and Other Stories by John Strange Winter

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— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

Berg loses its German e -sound for an English u -sound, and its German hard g for an English g ; it becomes identical with the berg of iceberg .
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Taking the trail, we followed, scanning carefully every likely place, and when we were within a few feet of her the little hen bird left in great excitement, twittering and flapping her wings as she fluttered along the ground, evidently trying to feign a crippled condition to draw our attention from the nest.
— from Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas