"Have you got our revolvers, Hamid?" asked Mackenzie.
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

About five one afternoon, as the train was approaching its halting-place at a spring on the western side of the pass, Clara's feverish mind fixed on a group of rocks half a mile from the trail as the spot where she would find Thurstane.
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

Under a canopy of dull clouds, the earth bare with half-melted snow, with the low fort rising up before them as if in an attitude of defence, here and there groups of ruined houses, a mill whose tall chimney and walls had been half destroyed by shells, but where one still read, in large black letters, these words, "Soap-maker to the Nobility;" and through this desolated country was a long and muddy road which led over to where the battle field lay, and in the midst of which, presenting a symbol of death, lay the dead body of a horse.
— from A Romance of Youth — Volume 4 by François Coppée

But, to give each lot its station, Ere from pulpit I dismount God of recapitulation, Hermes, aid me while I count— Aikin, Baking, Cato, Plato, Cibber, Fibber—Cherry, Merry, Hayley, Paley—Secker, Decker, Tickle, Mickle—Tonson, Johnson, Literary Caliban.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 by Various

In the “Geste of Robyn Hode,” among Mr. Garrick’s old plays, in the Museum, the arrows of the outlaw and his companions are particularly described:-- “With them they had an hundred bowes, The strings were well ydight; An hundred shefe of arrows good, With hedes burnish’d full bryght; And every arrowe an ell longe, With peacocke well ydight, And rocked they were with white silk, It was a semely sight.”
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

But, I would ask, Can a man’s life be in the right when all his principles are bad? Vipers, inwardly full of malice, hatred, envy, bitterness, and evil speaking; it looks innocent, as if it could harm nobody, but, under the garb of religion, holiness, and morality, what will such characters not do?
— from A Feast for Serpents Being the substance of a sermon, preached at the Obelisk Chapel, on Sunday evening, March 21, 1813 by J. (John) Church

Under a canopy of dull clouds, the earth bare with half-melted snow, with the low fort rising up before them as if in an attitude of defence, here and there groups of ruined houses, a mill whose tall chimney and walls had been half destroyed by shells, but where one still read, in large black letters, these words, “Soap-maker to the Nobility;” and through this desolated country was a long and muddy road which led over to where the battle field lay, and in the midst of which, presenting a symbol of death, lay the dead body of a horse.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée

Very noticeable are the compound columns of this style, consisting of square piers with slender shafts coupled to them and supporting brackets, as at Chillambaram, Peroor, and Vellore; the richly banded square piers, the grotesques of rampant horses and monsters, and the endless labor bestowed upon minute carving and ornament in superposed bands.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

Laurin the king of the garden of roses Has a magic crown where strange birds so sing That resistance and doubt by their song once kissed Melt into trance.
— from Pan-Worship, and Other Poems by Eleanor Farjeon