The Turks heard of this tradition, and when the Slavs were pouring down the Valley of the Maritza, and approaching Stamboul, they pulled down the curtain so that the Russians might not enter by the Kerko Porta, and replaced it by a smaller wall.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

Erskine got the staple of his English from a long and fond study of Shakspeare and Milton; but Toombs must have drawn his only from the fountains whence Tom, Dick, Harry, and Mariah get theirs, and then purified and refined it by a secret process that nobody else knew of,—not even himself, as I believe.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

They pulled down the curtain so that the Russians might not enter through the Kerko Porta, and replaced it by a smaller wall.
— from The Walls of Constantinople by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

EUROPE, wealth and power unequally divided in it, 13.-- Division of states, with the population and revenues, illustrated by a statistical chart,190.
— from An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair

We accordingly prescribed absolute rest in bed, a strict regime, hydrotherapy, and unfailing regularity in the performance of gymnastic exercises.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige