Like certain church towers, Madame de T.‘s salon had two cocks.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

cwīðan to bewail : accuse , LL. cwiðe = cwide cwiðenlic natural , WW 412 30 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

xiii.; its continued growth generally anticipated, 142 ; this leads to mistaken policy of London County Council, 143 ; its large debt and small assets, 144 , 145 ; simultaneous fall of ground values and rise of rates as the withdrawal
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Her face changed and she gave a queer little choked cry.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

2—For Liberian coffee ( Coffea liberica ).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Thence to Paul’s Church Yard; where seeing my Lady’s Sandwich and Carteret, and my wife (who this day made a visit the first time to my Lady Carteret), come by coach, and going to Hide Park, I was resolved to follow them; and so went to Mrs. Turner’s: and thence found her out at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the “Knight of the Burning Pestle,” which pleased me not at all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Amongst ths "subsidiary activities" of the Theosophical Society may be mentioned the Liberal Catholic Church, the Guild of the Citizens of Tomorrow, the Order of the Brothers of Service, the Golden Chain, the Order of the Round Table, the Bureau of Social Reconstruction, the Braille League, the Theosophical Educational Trust, etc. 730.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Five bed-rooms opened out of this low-ceilinged, close-smelling corridor; the numbers of these rooms were indicated by squat black figures painted upon the panels of the doors.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Suffice it here to say that a Custom-House officer of long continuance can hardly be a very praiseworthy or respectable personage, for many reasons; one of them, the tenure by which he holds his situation, and another, the very nature of his business, which—though, I trust, an honest one—is of such a sort that he does not share in the united effort of mankind.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

'There was a little play last Christmas,' continued Mrs. Byron, 'and he acted quite delightfully.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

All the rest of us are only little children compared to her.
— from Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham

Cicero Civil Power, the Clive, Lieut.-Colonel Robert (Lord Clive) Coja Wajid Colbert, M. Colin, Catherine Colonel Coote, Captain (Sir) Eyre Coromandel, Coast of, See Madras Coast Cossimbazar Cossimbazar River Courtin, François, Jacques Ignace Courtin, Mrs. See Madame Direy Courtin's Memorial Cuddalore Cudmore, Lieut.
— from Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Samuel Charles Hill

[44] “L’Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil.” Debierre.
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

And some, no doubt, have loved Nature as a mistress, fleeing to her from less congenial company, and devoting a lifetime to the observation and enjoyment of her ways.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

On a cross-beam is affixed a dish, in which is placed a fine large cock (called Guller ).
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

There are a few persons living now at the château, who well remember the morning of the departure, and they will tell you all the ludicrous circumstances connected therewith, some of which would form valuable acquisitions to collectors of “whims and oddities.”
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Before beginning his campaign, however, he had to dam the mouth of a large canal called the Hindiyah, in order to drain the vast marshes to the west of Babylon.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

They have shown that red light stimulates and excites the heart, while blue light can cause temporary paralysis.
— from Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky