Old Morgan ap Rhys sat one night in his own chimney corner making himself comfortable with his pipe and his pint of cwrw da.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

William Iselin, who had been one of my fellow-students in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, is Attaché at the Embassy and he gave me a rapid summary of necessary information.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

Every minute of the way had been carefully planned out to satisfactorily arrange for the reception en route, stopping places for meals and rest, stays over night, and allowance for all possible contingencies, for the Governor-General insisted that he should make his arrival, at each place on the way, with royal precision.
— from A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

THE GALAPAGOS FISHERMEN. IN spite of the drastic reduction in length, and the fact that the motors in the bow section were still disabled, the "Meteor" was able to maintain a respectable speed of ninety miles an hour.
— from The Dreadnought of the Air by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

The superiority in a religious and moral point of view to the schools as now developed may be seen by contrasting the present moral and religious state of New England with what it was then.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Meanwhile the preachers of the Orthodox Greek faith were not behind the Mohammedans in rousing the martial and religious spirit of nearly one hundred millions of the subjects of the Russian autocrat.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders by John Lord

I am Jack Merrill, and these are my friends, Walt Phelps, of New Mexico, and Ralph Stetson, of New York.
— from The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers by John Henry Goldfrap

There is in the Indian Museum another remarkable specimen of native furniture—namely, a chair of the purest beaten gold of octagonal shape, and formed of two bowls reversed, decorated with acanthus and lotus in repousée ornament.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

R. Donaldson, `Bush Lays,' p. 5: "Entangled in a foul morass, A raupo swamp, one name we know." 1864.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Melampus, a rich subject of Neleus in Pylos, is imprisoned for a whole year in the house of Phylacus, and has his property seized or confiscated, on account of the daughter of Neleus, and of his grievous ἄτη , which the goddess, the hard-striking [570] Erinūs, brought into his mind (Od. xv.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone