In examining ancient Jewish, Phoenician, and other Shemitic cognomens, I found that they consisted of a divine name and some attribute of the deity, and that the last was generally referable equally to the Supreme, to the Sun, as a god, and to the masculine emblem.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

" As Lydgate had said of him, he was a sort of gypsy, rather enjoying the sense of belonging to no class; he had a feeling of romance in his position, and a pleasant consciousness of creating a little surprise wherever he went.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

While the king was lying in the Gaut river, Einar Tambaskelfer came there with some men; and after treating about an agreement, it was settled that Einar should go north to Throndhjem, and there take possession of all the lands and property which Bergliot had received in dower.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the police made their descent on it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Ours was: The left of Warren's corps was on the Shady Grove Road, extending to the Mechanicsville Road and about three miles south of the Totopotomoy.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

ymbhūung = ymbhȳwung ymbhwearft = ymbhwyrft ymbhweorfan 3 (e 2 , u 2 ) to turn round, revolve go round, encompass : tend, cultivate , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Friar John, who had always twenty yards of gut ready empty to swallow a gallimaufry of lawyers, began to be somewhat out of humour, and desired Pantagruel to remember he had not dined, and bring Double-fee along with him.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

According to their accounts; about six o'clock, in the afternoon of the day just mentioned, there was seen towards the [25] east, a kind of fiery ball; which, after it had burst into two parts, with a great report, exceeding that of a cannon, fell from the sky, in the form, and appearance of two chains entangled in one another:—and also with a loud noise, as of a great number of carriages rolled along.
— from Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These Days, and in Antient Times by Edward King

In 1846 Gregory took charge of an expedition to the north of Perth, organised by the settlers of the colony, and entitled The Settlers' Expedition; its object being to proceed to the Gascoyne River, examining the intervening country as to its suitability for pastoral purposes.
— from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc

Dubourg—peace to his gentle memory!—was interred in the church-yard of Paddington, where his calling in life, and his summons to death, were denoted in the following gracefully reflective epitaph:— “Though, sweet as Orpheus, thou couldst bring Soft pleadings from the trembling string, Uncharmed the King of Terror stands, Nor owns the magic of thy hands.”
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

"I couldn't buy a claim, but I could perhaps hire out to some miner, and after a while get rich enough to own one myself."
— from Dean Dunham; Or, the Waterford Mystery by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Francesco!"—he finished with a gasp, staring bewildered at the youth's dazzling garb, richer even than the Viceroy's.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier

As a peasant, particularly a Scotch peasant, he believed passionately in the native worth of man as man and gave ringing expression to it in his verse.
— from English Literature: Modern by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

[Patna] passing many fair towns and a very fertile country, in which way many great rivers enter the Ganges, some as large as itself, by which it becomes so broad that in time of the rains you cannot see across.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

I feel at this moment no debility; and I doubt not that the despair of my mind will give redoubled energy to my efforts.”
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

Now the Apothecaries abuses generally relate either to the Medicines , Patients , or Physicians ; which three do comprehend all I shall say on this subject.
— from A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines. by Christopher Merret