escopetazo , m. , gunshot. escribir , ( p. p. escrito ), to write.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The Muse of the Prairies, of California, Canada, Texas, and of the peaks of Colorado, dismissing the literary, as well as social etiquette of over-sea feudalism and caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play, emotions, pride, passions, experiences, that belong to them, body and soul—to the general globe, and all its relations in astronomy, as the savans portray them to us—to the modern, the busy Nineteenth century, (as grandly poetic as any, only different,) with steamships, railroads, factories, electric telegraphs, cylinder presses—to the thought of the solidarity of nations, the brotherhood and sisterhood of the entire earth—to the dignity and heroism of the practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes that other medium of expression, more flexible, more eligible—soars to the freer, vast, diviner heaven of prose.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

All which (as I gather) was done in the life of Edward the first (not­with­stand­ing that I haue a little vnorderlie before treated of the executing of his office of the pantrie at the coronation of Edward the second, sonne to Edward the first) as may be confirmed by Piers Longtoft in these verses: Et pour peril escheuer toutz apres promist Ke Iean de Hastin cheualiere lit Emerie de la Bret barone ne pas petit Alant in Gascoigne touz sans contredit Pour la terme attendue del trevis auant dit.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

Every person present, even the Earl, sat abashed as if he had done something wrong.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson

He's evidently played poker enough to know how to bluff in good shape."
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

The evening passed pleasantly enough till nine, in chatting over old times, and listening to the history of every extraordinary trout and fox which had been killed within twenty miles, when the footboy entered with a somewhat scared face.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

We have our popular heroes; but so has every petty people, every tribe its heroes.
— from Education and the Higher Life by John Lancaster Spalding