This is— "The nameless column with a buried base," of Byron, but is now neither nameless nor buried, its pedestal having been laid bare by the Duchess of Devonshire in 1813, and bearing an inscription which shows an origin that no one ever anticipated.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

We have yet to notice certain long slender bodies, outwardly brown, but inwardly nearly black, resembling whip-cord in size.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

[85] The word Majo originally signified Bravo, or Bully, but is now applied to such as court distinction by an extravagant style of dress.
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

CHAPTER V Life was broadening out before Banneker into new and golden persuasions.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Surely it would be amusing, if it were not melancholy, to see a man of virtue and abilities unsatisfied with the calamities which one Church, constituted on false principles, has brought upon the empire, and repining that Scotland is not in the same state with Ireland, that no Scottish agitator is 160 raising rent and putting county members in and out, that no Presbyterian association is dividing supreme power with the government, that no meetings of precursors and repealers are covering the side of the Calton Hill, that twenty-five thousand troops are not required to maintain order on the north of the Tweed, that the anniversary of the Battle of Bothwell Bridge is not regularly celebrated by insult, riot, and murder.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The Eyed Blenny, or Butterfly Blenny is not very common along our shores, but may be seen now and again.
— from Within the Deep Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. by R. Cadwallader Smith

The city of Blban or beautiful Ban is now Bilbao, and the three fish on this coin are analogous to the trident, and to numberless other emblems of the Triune.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley