She had had a season in Dublin, and who knows how many in Cork, Killarney, and Mallow?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I, at least, think it would be impossible to add much to what you have just told me.” “Impossible?” cried Keller, almost pityingly.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We have been enabled to present these facts, through the kindness of Mr. Charles Durand, who, in a valuable communication, further informs us that besides being among the earliest to engage in mercantile enterprises in Upper Canada, his father had also in 1805, a large interest in the extensive flour mills in Chippawa, known as the Bridgewater Mills: mills burnt by the retreating American army in 1812, at which period Mr. Durand, senior, was in the command of one of the flank companies of Militia, composed of the first settlers in the neighbourhood of the modern Hamilton: moreover he was the first who ever imported foxhounds into Upper Canada, a pack of which animals he caused to be sent out to him from England, being fond of the hunter's sport.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This ideal rarely succeeded in youth, and towards thirty it took a form of modified insolence and offensive patronage; but about sixty it mellowed into courtesy, kindliness, and even deference to the young which had extraordinary charm both in women and in men.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

This probably came by the ‘pagan’ route; but it meets its christian kith and kin in the following story which I find in a (MS.)
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The Dobuan mwasila is called Kasabwaybwayreta, and is ascribed to that hero.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The place where the two armies met is called Kunaxa, and is five hundred stadia distant from Babylon.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Arriving in Providence, I was met by about four newspaper men, including Charley Kirby and Mr. Trickey.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

They have been wanted for some time for stage robbing, horse stealing, and for the malicious murder of a man in Crown King and another in Cherry.
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish

The male is called Kaiboshi as well as Hikoboshi and Kengyū; while the female is called Asagao-himé ("Morning Glory Princess") 1 , Ito-ori-himé ("Thread-Weaving Princess"), Momoko-himé ("Peach-Child Princess"), Takimono-himé ("Incense Princess"), and Sasagani-himé ("Spider Princess").
— from The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

This maker is chiefly known as a maker of Guitars.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

The dance with these movements is called kharia , and it is considered to be an Oraon rather than a Munda dance, though Munda girls join in it.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

A battle took place, in which Macrinus was defeated, and soon after put to death; and Elagabalus, for that is the name under which this monster is commonly known, ascended the throne.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith