In these countries Midsummer Day (the twenty-fourth of June, Old Style) is called l’ánsăra.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

—By this name the Rev. James Jackson, of Sandwith in Cumberland, was very widely known.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

J OHN S INGLETON C OPLEY , R.A. (1737—1815), was born at Boston, America, then one of our colonies, his father being English and his mother Irish.
— from English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton

It is by reflecting on this sense of the psalm, and on all His gracious dealings with us, that we are enabled to realize how rightly and justly our Saviour is called the Shepherd of Our Souls, and [pg 010] how beautifully the Psalmist, in the shepherd song, has depicted His relations with us.
— from The Shepherd Of My Soul by Charles J. (Charles Jerome) Callan

If I may make just one statement in connection with that, if Your Honor pleases.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

One young man, in jumping off, succeeded in clearing the car and the wall, but as he alighted in the roadway, which slopes down to the entrance of the station, a piece of granite coping, weighing several hundredweight, dislodged by the force of the collision, fell on his head, death being instantaneous.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

The Athenians at first viewed his Spartan partialities without dissatisfaction, especially as they gained considerable advantages by them; for during the early days of their empire when they first began to extend and consolidate their power, they were enabled to do so without rousing the jealousy of Sparta, in consequence of the popularity of Kimon with the Lacedæmonians.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

About the same time the ally of Kendal, James of Scotland, is captured by another country hero, Musgrove, a veteran of great renown but no less in age than 'five score and three'.
— from The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

His grandfather, William Samuel Johnson, of Stratford, in Connecticut, was one of the revolutionary fathers.
— from A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870 by William Cullen Bryant

She gave a little cry, but whether it was of joy or surprise I cannot say.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child