A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

he lost the horse that was given for a large kittle, and a Chopunnish man lent a horse to carry a load and accompanied the party—The man who we had reason to believe had Stolen the horse he had given for the Kittle we thretend a little and he produced a very good horse in the place of that one which we Chearfully receved.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In 1425, on the last day of August, the inhabitants of the capital crowded their windows to witness the procession of four blind men, clothed in full armour, like knights going to a tournament, and preceded by two men, one playing the hautbois and the other bearing a banner on which a pig was painted.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

for a living. kwartáhan a moneyed, wealthy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They were all rigged with wolves’, calves’, and rams’ skins, laced and trimmed with sheep’s heads, bull’s feathers, and large kitchen tenterhooks, girt with broad leathern girdles, whereat hanged dangling huge cow-bells and horse-bells, which made a horrid din.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"He is always to be found at Lydia Khostatov's."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Rendered additionally witty by this applause, Sir Mulberry Hawk leered upon his friends most facetiously, and led Kate downstairs with an air of familiarity, which roused in her gentle breast such burning indignation, as she felt it almost impossible to repress.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

We had, first and last, killed about threescore of them, and had it been daylight we had killed many more.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

And behold, they were glad they had gone into savagery, for they had gained something; they found that they could now smoke a little without having to go and hunt for a lost knife; they did not get sick enough to be seriously uncomfortable.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

“If it had been Miss Verinder’s nightgown, she would have had to buy lace, and frilling, and Lord knows what besides; and she wouldn’t have had time to make it in one night.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

There was a lyrical Ireland very dear to him—songs and poems which wrung him as if he were an exile; Tom Moore's Sunflower Song incited at first a poignant anguish, as of a sweetheart's dead face; and Lead Kindly Light brought almost the first glimmer of spiritual light across the desolate distances of the world—like a tender smile from a greater being than man.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

On his present trip to France, at least, knowing that he had come for several months, perhaps forever, she hoped to have her Bernard all to herself.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

Collot, if you give him time, is as safe as the Bank of France, and Louvier knows it.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Here we found a little knot of people.
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The Talbot —old and now almost obsolete term for a large kind of hunting dog—has acquired a literary celebrity from having been substituted for the old sign of the Tabard Inn in Southwark, whence the pilgrims started on their merry journey to Canterbury.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

Then she raised her crumpled face, that at the moment was so like her mother's, for a last kiss, and as she wreathed her arms round his neck she whispered, "You are my daddy, aren't you, daddy?" "Of course I am," he murmured, and lifted her down.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

Tearful and motionless these beloved ones sat about her, and at last, when the crimson and gold swept like a full tide of glory the broad western expanse that lay before us, she raised herself, looked into all our faces, held her lips for a last kiss from us of the household, and said in tones as clear as silver bells: "I am going now; he is coming.
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

[Pg 226] upon their feet again Lord K. knows.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton