Thousands of children in Wales seek to win from their elders a New Year’s copper by exhibiting the apple gift, or by singing in chorus their good wishes.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

nitsu n vault in a cemetery big enough to accommodate a coffin or two, built against a wall or above the ground.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

True he had flung Hook's arm to the crocodile; but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile's pertinacity, hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

14 It cannot be expected that a work destined completely to change the state of science, we had almost said of nature, should not be assailed by that prejudice which is ever ready to raise its loud but unmeaning voice against whatever is new, how great or good soever it may be.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Although there were many people here, none of the best favoured or best clad, busily erecting tents and driving stakes in the ground, and hurrying to and fro with dusty feet and many a grumbled oath—although there were tired children cradled on heaps of straw between the wheels of carts, crying themselves to sleep—and poor lean horses and donkeys just turned loose, grazing among the men and women, and pots and kettles, and half-lighted fires, and ends of candles flaring and wasting in the air—for all this, the child felt it an escape from the town and drew her breath more freely.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

2. doth not only commend, but enjoin travel, and such variety of objects to a melancholy man, and to lie in diverse inns, to be drawn into several companies: Montaltus, cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

an emotion towards a thing contingent, which we know does not exist in the present, is fainter, other conditions being equal, than an emotion towards a thing past.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Your tone passages may be partly closed by enlarged tonsils, adenoids, or enlarged turbinate bones of the nose.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It is this: "The best monument that can be erected to a man of literary talents is a good edition of his works."
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The little children are the only part of the family who complain, and who are privileged to complain, but even they are taught at an early age to suffer and be silent.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

[181] For instance, Coleridge has shown, in the Ancient Mariner , that the ballad or common measure of four lines, 8, 6, 8, 6, abab , can be extended to any number of lines up to nine ( v. sup.
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

In locating missing persons, who are supposed to have met with a fatal accident or worse, the trail of the coyote could be employed to advantage—and undoubtedly will be, if it is once a matter of general knowledge that the prairie wolf will always visit the immediate vicinity of the remains of a hidden or buried human body, and sound its dismal howl over them every time it happens to pass through that part of the country.
— from Tracks and Tracking by Josef Brunner

This, as has been seen, [389] Napoleon did; alleging in his Berlin Decree, in 1806, that war cannot be extended to any private property whatever, and that the right of blockade is restricted to fortified places, actually invested by competent forces.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

That oaks, under this plan of sowing in situ under shelter, can be extended to a climate inferior to the natural, 358 That oaks grown in the low country, and best climate of Scotland, appear not to ripen the seed sufficiently.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew