Esclop , police, now used to signify a constable only.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The Marquis of Monferrato, a man of high worth and gonfalonier [51] of the church, had passed beyond seas on the occasion of a general crusade undertaken by the Christians, arms in hand, and it being one day discoursed of his merit at the court of King Phillippe le Borgne, [52] who was then making ready to depart France upon the same crusade, it was avouched by a gentleman present that there was not under the stars a couple to match with the marquis and his lady, for that, even as he was renowned among knights for every virtue, so was she the fairest and noblest of all the ladies in the world.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Lord shall destroy his name under the sun, and cut him off for his undoing from all the tribes of Israel, with all the curses of the firmament which are written in the Law * * *
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

They are accustomed to have liberty of action and of speech at home; they do not understand the services at church, they get tired, they nestle, and, if allowed, will whisper, on an average, once in three minutes.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

It is not uncommon to see a cup of tea, upon being [Pg 231] poured out, completely covered with these creatures, and floating dead upon it like a scum
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

His sole sleep lately having been for an hour the night before, Lieutenant Hal needed no urging to seek a cot in the wall-tent set apart for the use of the officers.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants; or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Outside the fence one was not unlikely to see a company of French pinks, which were forbidden standing-room inside as if they were tiresome poor relations of the other flowers.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

He had been fed, indeed, out of mockery, as being the Christians’ god; but he did not understand the shouts and caprices of the crowd, and he only waited for an opportunity to show that he by no means acquiesced in the proceedings of the day.
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

I quite agree with the writer to a certain extent; still is it not unwise to sneer at colonials, who wish by so doing to {181} honour their country by such names as Wellington, Gordon, Drake, Nelson, and others?
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

It was not until the Serbs and Croats formed their coalition in 1905 that the trial of strength had come.
— from The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement by Frank Alfred Golder

The pinnace, which with its three masts and neat rigging might have passed for a ship; budgerows, the clumsiest of all clumsy things, with their sterns several times higher than their bows; the bauleahs, ugly enough, but lightly skimming along like gondolas compared with the heavy craft around them; the drifting haystacks, which the country-boats appear to be when at a distance, with their native crews straining every nerve upon their summits, and cheering themselves with a wild and not unfrequently a sweet song; panswees shooting swiftly down the stream, with one person only on board, who sits at the head, steering with his right hand, rowing with his foot, and in the left hand holding his pipe.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd