Col. Smith did something, in his day, to improve the breed of horses in Upper Canada.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

An excellent abstract of the question, with references to the works of the chief modern writers on his curious subject, De Sacy, Kleuker, Von Hammer, &c., may be found in De Guigniaut's translation of Kreuzer.
— 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

[224] We know that Lars Davidson Reque lived there then; he seems to have lived in the Cass Street Dutch settlement.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Adj. thinking &c. v.; thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful[obs3], wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical. lost in thought &c. (inattentive) 458; deep musing &c. (intent) 457.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is; there Tethys ° his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia ° still doth steepe 350 In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

[forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [obs3][N. Am.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; neve, serac[obs3]; pruina[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien; Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l'aumône, Et tout en écoutant comme le coeur se donne, Sans
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I may feel—nay, know—that after having so far overcome my repugnance towards Mr and Mrs Boffin as to receive them under this roof, and to consent to your daughter Bella's,' here turning to her husband, 'residing under theirs, it were well if your daughter Bella,' again turning to her husband, 'had profited in a worldly point of view by a connection so distasteful, so disreputable.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“I’ve been here five years and had lots of promises, though I haven’t got anything else yet; but I expect it to come some day, so I keep my mouth shut!
— from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner

The man in charge of the cells sat dozing stolidly by the stove, some distance away.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

For the general diffusion of elementary knowledge among the Chinese, see Davis's Sketches , and other authors.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

What he saw was an expression so cold, so delicately supercilious, so patiently polite, that he stopped as suddenly as though he had been struck by lightning.
— from Infatuation by Lloyd Osbourne

Dose , 10 to 30 gr., either in powder or pills; in chronic rheumatism, gout, obstinate chronic skin disease, scrofula, syphilis, &c. It forms the active ingredient of the once celebrated ‘ Chelsea Pensioner ,’ and the ‘ GOUT SPECIFIC ’ of Mr Emerigon.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Likewise, in his “ Responsiones ad articulos bavaricæ inquisitionis ,” Melanchthon calls such doctrines “ stoici et manichæi furores ,” and adds: “ Oro iuniores, ut fugiant has monstruosas opiniones, quæ sunt contumeliosæ contra Deum et perniciosæ moribus.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

New York is Irish, Philadelphia German, Milwaukee Norwegian, Chicago Canadian, Sault de Ste Marie French; but in San Francisco—where all the foreign races are strong—none is dominant; whence the singular result that California, the most mixed in population, is also the most English of the States.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir