The grizzly was then the burly lord of the Western prairie, dreaded by all other game, and usually shunned even by the Indians.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

Aristotle, in Rosario Philosophoru m , sayethe, “nullu m tingens venenum generatur absq ue sole et eius vmbra, id est, uxore.”
— from Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Francis Thynne

Both of them grunted and uttered sharp exclamations at intervals.
— from The Martian by A. R. (Alec Rowley) Hilliard

The locality thus designated is too far north for the scene of David's retreat before [Pg 58] Absalom, unless we give an unusual southward extension to the names; and this makes a difficulty in the way of accepting the hypothesis of the author's having been in his retinue.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren

“We’ve either got to wait until he croaks or is out again before we can go ahead, unless something else arises to make it necessary to act before.
— from The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A number of gray hares were run down, not one, getting away; Uncle Seryozha expressed no surprise, but still maintained that the only reason was because they were a poor lot of hares.
— from Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Tolstoi, Ilia Lvovich, graf

‘It doesn’t seem so, as expenses go amongst US,’ said Ernest, seriously, ‘though I dare say it would look like shocking extravagance to a working man with a wife and family.’
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

I've got an uncle——" "So everybody has got some ungles," put in the musician.
— from The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars by Harold Frederic

All abnormal exhibitions of nature, or in fact any departure from the regular order of things, such as great and unusual storms, earthquakes, eclipses of the sun or moon, the appearance of a comet in the heavens, or of a plague of flies, caterpillars, or locusts were once held to be so many infallible signs of impending calamity.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake

These kinds of gnats are usually seen early in spring hovering in swarms in mid air.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard