Old Homer, too,—who can believe that he had not hewn his way through the very battles which he describes, and seen every wound, every shape of agony?
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

The leaves are dried and sometimes exported whole, especially for the use of the silk manufacturers in Lyons; but they are more often ground to a fine powder.
— from Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product by K. J. Adcock

"I don't think, Thomas Sedley, you'd do anything so excessively wicked!" exclaimed Miss Charity, a little fiercely.
— from The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

—Supposing you have placed upon a deuce a sequence ending with eight; place the eight at the inner end of the lane, the other cards following in succession until the deuce becomes the outside card.
— from Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games by Cadogan, Adelaide, Lady

Mobs of the partisans of the various factions fought in the streets and bitter taunts of "French diseases" and "Spanish eruptions" were exchanged between them.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

The young bloods, many of whom were still far from sober, had taken the kitchen into their own hands, vice the Chinaman deposed; and since each was engaged upon a dish of his own, and none had the least scruple in demolishing his neighbour's handiwork, I became early convinced that many eggs would be broken and few omelets made.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

on a hill 3 m. distant; also Stewart Hall, 2 m. distant, a superb edifice with extensive park and gardens, the seat of Lord Castle Stewart.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

Et dat ad sixþepany et wardpany, et arabit cum caruca sua per duos dies in hyeme et habebit quolibet die unum denarium.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff