That basket hugged so tight there that as he was hauling it through he noticed in the upper stone next the gate a block of native silver, eight inches square; and this professor of mines and mining and mineralogy, who would not work for forty-five dollars a week, when he sold that homestead in Massachusetts, sat right on that stone to make the bargain.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

At daybreak, when the sailors saw the corpses of their friends, they heaped up, in order to bury the general, a barrow of notable size, which is famous to this day, and is commonly named Hakon's Howe.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

From time to time we got a bit of news; something that Cupido fished out of the newspapers and spread all over town, or something that that silly doña Pepa would let drop, while telling inquisitive people about the glories her niece was winning abroad; anyhow, all a heap of lies that were invented I don't know where or by whom.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The girls and boys of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have a midsummer holiday when they too dance around a gaily decorated pole, but they are not celebrating the coming of May.
— from Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by Nelle E. Moore

Gems, "Druid's gem", 163 . — night-shining, 160 . — as soul-bodies, 44 . Geological Ages, breaking of North Sea and English Channel land-bridges, 69 . — — confusion regarding, in modern art, 1 . — — date of last land movement, 100 . — — megalithic monuments submerged, 100 .
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

Then rose he over the blue Atlantic: the new continent emerged from the dusky deep; the ships of discoverers were penetrating its estuaries and straits, from the Isles of Fire even to the frozen promontories of Labrador; and the roar of cannon went up to heaven, mingled with the groans and blood of naked savages.
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird