It is not, however, remarkable for swiftness, and never was employed, like the falcon, in catching other birds, being reckoned as one of the useless and cowardly birds of prey.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

The paintings and sculpture of their divinities, in the mummy catacombs, are for the most part clusters of beasts, birds, reptiles, and flies, grouped together in the most disgusting and unnatural relations; a true indication that the minds of the worshippers were filled with ideas the most vile and unnatural.
— from Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation: A Book for the Times by James B. (James Barr) Walker

We have seen also that the stranger was a stranger in the old Greek and Roman sense,—that is to say an enemy, a hostis,—and could enter another community only by being religiously adopted into it.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

4. Vertebrata , consisting of Beasts , Birds , Reptiles , Amphibia , and Fishes .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

She loved the medley of sounds, deep-throated blasts of coal boats mingling with the staccato toots of the tugboats, the rumble and clank of bridges being raised and lowered.
— from The Secret Pact by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

The first, entitled "A Lay of Mourning for the Death of the Tzar Liberator," narrates how "a dreadful cloud of black, bloodthirsty ravens assembled, and invited to them the underground, subterranean rats, not to a feast-ball, not to a christening, but to undermine the roots of the olive-branch."
— from A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood

The election is not yet decided, and the Democrats say that the others are likely to play tricks with the ballot boxes, and they have certainly delayed electoral returns; having command of ballot boxes, railways, and telegraphs, they can easily do this, and if people arrive at thinking, as some do at home , that a man's conscience ought only to consider the importance of keeping his party in power, and ignore every other consideration, why, what is to stop these kind of things?
— from The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters by Rayleigh, Clara, Lady

He describes the preparation of the metal from the crude ore, both by roasting and reduction from the oxide with argol and saltpetre, and also by fusing with metallic iron.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

[345] These were the companies of Bredin, Baynes, Raynsford, and Glubb; see vol. iii.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman