° XVII 140 Such one it was, as that renowmed Snake ° Which great Alcides in Stremona slew, Long fostred in the filth of Lerna lake, Whose many heads out budding ever new Did breed him endlesse labour to subdew: 145
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

No Kula stories, associated with any village in the Northern half of Boyowa exist, nor does any of the mythical heroes of the other stories ever come to the Northern or Western provinces of the Trobriands.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The most noted one was a quilt which had been made and sent in by Caroline To-tee-doo-ta-win (Scarlet House), of Brown Earth, now in her 97th year.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888 by Various

[788] was essentially British and an abri of King Bru or Cynbro is implied by its alternative title of Bride Hay or Bride Eye: not only is St. Brighid said to have resided at Avalon or the Apple Island, but among the relics long faithfully preserved there were the blessed Virgin’s scrip, necklace, distaff, and bell.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

way,—was she not autocrat?—putting down her hesitations and cravings for solitude to a young girl's delicate whimsies of which they could not divine the motive; for she, who had once been expansive, now had grown strangely reticent.
— from Stella Maris by William John Locke

It is the queerest thing I ever heard of but every night between seven and eight it is so still in this building you don't dare sneeze.
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox

Never were nobler efforts put forth on the part of a philosophic prince; but neither his patronage of philosophers, nor his own bright example, nor the doctrines of the Porch, conservative as they are, were of any avail.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

The Ojibway defaulter was not to be heard of, but every nook searched without result narrowed the remaining possibilities.
— from The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

Harris of Bestbroke , Esq; North Wales.
— from The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1731 Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer by Various

Governor Dunmore had a new house of burgesses elected; not being pleased with their proceedings he prorogued it several times, until he prorogued himself, on the night of the 7th of June, 1775, on board the armed ship Fowey, never again to assume his power over the turbulent rebels of America.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson