The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!" I chuckled over this paradoxical view of renunciation-one which puts the cap of Croesus on any saintly beggar, whilst transforming all proud millionaires into unconscious martyrs.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

2 calypso outfit, consisting of a straw hat and a sport shirt or blouse, the lower edges and sleeves of which are scalloped or raggedy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Her husband was followed by a girl of exquisite beauty, who carried three cups of chocolate on a silver-gilt dish.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Next morning I called on Count Orloff, and sent him in a short note, asking him to give me a short interview before I embarked my mails.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

1. 6. 10. † Caroch , n. A coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Commelin) a strange example of the cruelty and credulity of Constantine on a similar occasion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Betty arose at four, brewed herself a cup of coffee over a spirit lamp, and ate several biscuit with it.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

CABESTAN , the capstern or crab of a ship.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

C o cchiár o , a spoone.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

“And now do you suppose I can get you a cup of coffee or a sherbet?”
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

Here and there a light shone out like a spark in tinder; the sky above was black as a cavern, unbroken by the crack or cranny of a star.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if after the said last day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, any such church or chapel, or any such building for religious worship, or any such dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, shall be demolished or pulled down wholly, or in part, by any persons so unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, that then, in case such church, chapel, building for religious worship, dwelling-house, barn, stable, or out-house, shall be out of any city or town, that is either a county of itself, or is not within any hundred, that then the inhabitants of the hundred in which such damage shall be done, shall be liable to yield damages to the person or persons injured and damnified by such demolishing or pulling down wholly or in part; and such damages shall and may be recovered by action to be brought in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster , (wherein no effoin, protection or wager of law, or any imparlance shall be allowed) by the person or persons damnified thereby, against any two or more of the inhabitants of such hundred, such action for damages to any church or chapel to be brought in the name of the rector, vicar or curate of such church or chapel that shall be so damnified, in trust for applying the damages to be recovered in rebuilding or repairing such church or chapel; and that judgment being given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action, the damages so to be recovered shall, at the request of such plaintiff or plaintiffs, his or their executors or administrators, be raised and levied on the inhabitants of such hundred, and paid to such plaintiff or plaintiffs, in such manner and form, and by such ways and means, as are provided by the statute made in the seven and twentieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth , for reimbursing the person or persons on whom any money recovered against any hundred by any party robbed, shall be levied: and in case any such church, chapel, building for religious worship, dwelling-house, barn, stable, or out-house so damnified, shall be in any city or town that is either a county of itself, or is not within any hundred, that then such damages shall and may be recovered by action to be brought in manner aforesaid (where no effoin, protection or wager of law, or any imparlance shall be allowed) against two or more inhabitants of such city or town; and judgment being given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action, the damages so to be recovered shall, at the request of such plaintiff or plaintiffs, his or their executors or administrators, made to the justices of the peace of such city or town at any quarter-sessions to be holden for the said city or town, be raised and levied on the inhabitants of such city or town, and paid to such plaintiff or plaintiffs, in such manner and form, and by such ways and means, as are provided by the said statute made in the seven and twentieth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth , for reimbursing the person or persons on whom any money recovered against any hundred by any party robbed, shall be levied.
— from The Riot Act by Great Britain. Parliament

There are one or two coffee-houses where a few old native peasants sit peacefully and, over a cup of coffee or a smoke of the 'narghilé,' talk of the good old days.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

A stockholder who has votes enough to elect himself and other directors by cumulating his shares in voting, but refrains from doing so in consequence of a verbal agreement among the stockholders that he shall be chosen president, which they fail to carry out, cannot obtain any satisfaction from a court.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

[34] , and these last he appears to leave by the Araneidæ , and to enter the Crustacea by the Decapods [35] : thus making good his circle of classes, or a series of Annulose animals returning into itself.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby