TN: "Abraham" not listed, so not hyperlinked SHANDY-GAFF, ale and ginger beer; perhaps SANG DE GOFF , the favourite mixture of one GOFF , a blacksmith.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

It was one of the most useful motions in mechanics, the pedal movement; so I made a note in my memorandum book, purposing some day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sewing machine with it.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

But poverty still drove him on, and he went by way of Larissa, as being the most convenient road.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

But the famine was too hard for all other passions, and it is destructive to nothing so much as to modesty; for what was otherwise worthy of reverence was in this case despised; insomuch that children pulled the very morsels that their fathers were eating out of their very mouths, and what was still more to be pitied, so did the mothers do as to their infants; and when those that were most dear were perishing under their hands, they were not ashamed to take from them the very last drops that might preserve their lives: and while they ate after this manner, yet were they not concealed in so doing; but the seditious every where came upon them immediately, and snatched away from them what they had gotten from others; for when they saw any house shut up, this was to them a signal that the people within had gotten some food; whereupon they broke open the doors, and ran in, and took pieces of what they were eating almost up out of their very throats, and this by force: the old men, who held their food fast, were beaten; and if the women hid what they had within their hands, their hair was torn for so doing; nor was there any commiseration shown either to the aged or to the infants, but they lifted up children from the ground as they hung upon the morsels they had gotten, and shook them down upon the floor.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It is possible only to glance at the immense amount of work performed by Professor Snow during the last twenty years.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

A jogelour was one who amused people, either by playing, singing, dancing, or tricks requiring sleight of hand; a tregetour was one who brought about elaborate illusions, by the help of machinery or mechanical contrivance.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Its date is uncertain, but may probably be placed somewhere during the government of the high priest John Hyrcanus (B.C. 135-106).
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Perhaps the tears had given relief to her brain; perhaps some Divine Presence had come near her, giving hope that she could not weigh or measure or call by name; at any rate, as she looked round again with fresh glance, the scene outside seemed fairer than it had yet appeared to her.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall

Rudolf did not think much of this as advice, but Prowler seemed delighted.
— from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels

"I know," she continued without looking at him, "I know I didn't always do what is right, but if I deserved to be punished, Siegfried did not.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

Barringford peered sharply down the stream for nearly half a minute, while Henry did the same.
— from Marching on Niagara; Or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier by Edward Stratemeyer