In the course of the winter I threw out half a bushel of ears of sweet corn, which had not got ripe, on to the snow-crust by my door, and was amused by watching the motions of the various animals which were baited by it.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Kuháa ang kaban nga nagbutaltal sa hawanan, Get rid of this trunk sitting in the middle of the room.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it;—my uncle’s visitors at least thought so, and in their daily calls upon him, from the courtesy arising out of that belief, they would frequently turn the discourse to that subject,—and from that subject the discourse would generally roll on to the siege itself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it;—my uncle's visitors at least thought so, and in their daily calls upon him, from the courtesy arising out of that belief, they would frequently turn the discourse to that subject,—and from that subject the discourse would generally roll on to the siege itself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It was now attended with greater risk, owing to the spread of disaffection amongst the sympathisers with the Boer Republics.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

Juvenal ascribes the murder of the great Roman orator to the second Philippic against Antony.
— from A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

Wireworm is another tiresome enemy well known to carnation growers, and more difficult to get rid of than the slug, owing to its hard and horny covering which resists crushing; salt again, however, is a splendid cure .
— from Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

Among them were Bach’s great friend, Prince Leopold of Cöthen, his brother Prince August Ludwig, his sister Princess Elenore, Privy Councillor Von Zanthier, Dr Gilmar, one of the chief men in the church at Mühlhausen; Gesner, rector of the Thomas School.
— from Bach by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams

And a still greater testimony is that of Lord Kelvin, given at the Bristol meeting of the British Association in 1898, where in a paper on ‘Graphic Representations of the two Simplest Cases of a Single Wave,’ he referred to Gregory’s work on this subject.
— from The Academic Gregories by Agnes Grainger Stewart

But the Pliocene rocks contain fossils showing gradual reduction of the two side toes, modification of the teeth, and increase in size of the skeleton.
— from Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers

She no longer complained of the blues; she assured everyone that she had completely got rid of them, that she had never been in such spirits in all her life.
— from Vanitas: Polite Stories by Vernon Lee

These muscular conditions, however, usually give rise only to the slighter and more localized forms.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele