He has a British equivalent, Llud Llaw Ereint, the 'silver-handed,' and both, like all culture-heroes, were connected with the sun and with growth.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

It was the defeat of Pappenheim which obliged Tilly to abandon his first strong position and draw up his army under the western heights, where it formed a single extended line, long enough to outflank the Swedish army; the infantry in large battalions, the cavalry in equally large and unwieldy squadrons; the artillery, as stated, on the slopes above.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

The comedy I wrote is now at one with the lost dramaturgy of Pollio and of Posidippus, and is even less likely ever to be resurrected for mortal auditors.
— from The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act by James Branch Cabell

May that fine-minded Veteran in Verse enjoy life long enough to see his patronage justified!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

[354] "Une espèce d'estrapade où l'on attachoit les criminels, que les bourreaux, par le moyen d'une corde, guindoient en haut, et les laissoient ensuite tomber dans le feu à diverses reprises, pour faire durer leur supplice plus longtems."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

It was not that anyone on board the Catamaran had the slightest idea that that breeze would waft them to land; or even last long enough to bear them many leagues over the ocean.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

I couldn't make out if they were not rather blue after all—large, changeable sort of eyes, long lashes; eyes that look at you seriously and steadily, without the least bit of coquetry or worldliness; eyes expressing simplicity and interest in what you are saying—not in you, but in what you are saying.
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner

All round the orifice the rocks were thickly coated with ice; and from the top of the cliff on both sides huge icicles projected downwards, until their tips touched the earth, looking like enormous trunks of elephants, or such as even mammoths might have carried.
— from Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt by Mayne Reid