= byrig, ds. of burg .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them?
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

This news of Sir W. Coventry did strike me to the heart, and with reason, for by this and my Lord of Ormond’s business, I do doubt that the Duke of Buckingham will be so flushed, that he will not stop at any thing, but be forced to do any thing now, as thinking it not safe to end here; and, Sir W. Coventry being gone, the King will have never a good counsellor, nor the Duke of York any sure friend to stick to him; nor any good man will be left to advise what is good.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Duke of Buckingham asked him whether he was uneasy; Dorchester replied, yes, and that he durst not do this were he any where else: Buckingham replied, yes he would, and that he was a better man than himself; Dorchester answered that he lyed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A numerous council of the Eastern prelates, who were guided from a distance by the advice of Theophilus, confirmed the validity, without examining the justice, of the former sentence; and a detachment of Barbarian troops was introduced into the city, to suppress the emotions of the people.
— 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

In the second civil war, Licinius felt and dreaded the power of this consecrated banner, the sight of which, in the distress of battle, animated the soldiers of Constantine with an invincible enthusiasm, and scattered terror and dismay through the ranks of the adverse legions.
— 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

yegua más hermosa del potrero ha parido, la letra de las canciones lo dirá cuando se esté chapeando o cortando caña, cuando se junte o cargue en la casa de trapiche, cuando los negros uno enfrente de otro batan en las resfriaderas, con las bombas, la templa que acaba de ser sacada del tacho.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I declare our ‘Bonadventure’ could stay here from one end of the year to the other, without even dragging at her anchor!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

REVERBERATE, dissolve or blend by reflected heat.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Cut, Cracked, Injured or Sore Teats Apply Pratts Bag Ointment according to directions on box.
— from Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Company

One of them hotly demands what punishment shall be meted out to the court for such treatment— "Dites moi je vous prie, Poincts, dentelles ou broderies, Qu'aurons nous donc fait à la cour," etc.
— from Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg

The country rings with cries of shame on the dastards of Bude."
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

A shadow of apprehension overhung his anticipation of the day of Belgium’s delivery.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer

With one whom “thou knowest of greater state” there should be no easy fellowship, no dining or betting or playing at dice; above all there must be no show of overmuch “meekness” or servility, “for else a fool thou wilt be told.”
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

I see the grey stones overhung With lilac and laburnum; I hear the drone of bees among Blue depths of LITHOSPERNUM .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 by Various

A civil defense official brought up a Geiger counter, but no matter how he shook it and rapped on it, it refused to click.
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson

A central Congress and forty state legislatures, turning out some twenty thousand laws a year, could not make new props fast enough to take the place of those which were constantly breaking down or becoming ineffectual through some shifting of the strain.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

No, Tom, I sure reckon there ain't a drop of blood in Emerson's veins that would n't be ready for a fight any minute, if 't was his judgment that there ought to be a fight, even if he has got married.
— from Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly

In these pages no attempt has been made to enter into the details of biography, for that pleasant task has been already well performed by other and better equipped pens.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus