We see again the figure of our Lord standing on the heads of swine, but the lower figure is represented with a hawk, the sign of nobility, and is probably that of a person to whom the cross is a memorial.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

antiguo ancient, former, old; of long standing, by long prescription, from time immemorial.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

That we might do the Spaniards as much honour as possible, it was determined, in a council of war, that five of our largest ships should attack the fort on one side, while the battery, strengthened by two mortars and twenty-four cohorns, should ply it on the other.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Take of white Sugar one pound, white Sugar Candy, Penids, of each four ounces, Orris Florentine one ounce, Liquorice six drams, white Starch one ounce and an half, with a sufficient quantity of mussilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose Water, make them into small troches.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

She raised her hands to her hair, which she wore a la Princesse de Galles, and touched it here and there, settling it more firmly on her head, and her eyes were full of an unconscious realism, as though she were looking in the face one of life's sordid facts, and making the best of it.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Shall we, upon the footing of our land, Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" "The first-fruits of our labors," said Challenger in his booming, pedantic fashion.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The man who has not chased the wild pony in the hills with the lasso on his arm, riding, as they say in the West, "Hell for leather," down the steep hillside, over the rock and the rough land, balancing on his broncho with the dexterity of a bird or a baboon, has failed to find one of life's supreme pleasures.
— from Wild Youth, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

Is it worth it?" "I thought that perhaps, in view of the fact of our large surplus in other directions—" "Exactly," said his father, "a heavy surplus.
— from Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock

But of the combination that we call "passionate love"—that fills our own late sixteenth,
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

But if buying carpets was out of the question, so it was not less out of the question for Mrs. Prigley to fabricate objects of luxury, since her whole time was taken up by matters of pressing necessity; indeed, the poor lady could only just keep up with the ceaseless accumulations of things that wanted mending; and whenever she was unwell for a day or two, and unable to work, there rose such a heap of them as made her very heart sink.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

But he said no more, walking beside me with downcast countenance and brooding eyes fixed on our long shadows that led us slowly west.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers