Well was it known to be tenanted by rats, by black beetles, and by cockroaches—nay, rumour affirmed that the ghostly Nun of the garden had once been seen here.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Allah[obs3], Bathala[obs3], Brahm[obs3], Brahma[obs3], Brahma[obs3], cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread[obs3], the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu[Hindu deities], Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath[obs3], Buddha; Isis[Egyptian deities], Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal[obs3], Asteroth &c.[obs3]; Thor[Norse deities], Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph,, sylphid; Ariel[obs3], peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie[obs3], Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad[obs3], naiad, mermaid, kelpie[obs3], Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy &c. (bad spirit) 980.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I received no answer to this at the time, and the next day went on to Rome, where the news came that Hood had made his appearance at Resaca, and had demanded the surrender of the place, which was commanded by Colonel Weaver, reenforced by Brevet Brigadier-General Raum.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Thus was this innocent baptised in its own blood, to make up the very climax of Romish barbarity; being born and dying at the same time a martyr; and realizing again the days of Herodian cruelty, with circumstances of bigoted malice unknown even to that execrable murderer.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Then said Bauge that there was a hole through the rock; but Bolverk blowed into the hole that the auger had made, and the chips flew back into his face.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

] Note 29 ( return ) [ Bulgari, Boulgres, Bougres, a national appellation, has been applied by the French as a term of reproach to usurers and unnatural sinners.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The fourth possible combination (cold and dry) is represented by black bile .
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

I was very much astonished, therefore, when Franck calmly pitied the King of Saxony for having had his room 'bedaubed' by Bendemann!
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Of Thomas Moore, too, there is respectful and grateful—if not over-exultant—talk; yet in these swift days there be few who are tempted to tarry long in the “rosy bowers by Bendemeer.”
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria by Donald Grant Mitchell

All this while the boat was slowly drifting down the river, but Bunny Brown and his sister Sue had talked so much about fishing that they had not noticed where they were going.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope

449: the volume contains the Letters of St. Jerome, and had been given to Rochester by Benedict, bp. of Rochester, d. 1226).
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

Permanently hard waters contain the sulphates of Ca and Mg, which cannot be removed by boiling, but may be by adding (NH4)2CO3.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

An' where the river, bend by bend, Do dräin our meäd, an' mark its end, The hangèn leäze do teäke our cows, An' trees do sheäde em wi' their boughs, An' I the quicker beät the road, To zee a-comèn into view, Still greener vrom the sky-line's blue, Wold Burnley our abode.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Her [Pg 41] beauty and affliction might have melted a rock, but Blue Beard had a heart harder than a rock.
— from The Story of Blue-Beard by Charles Perrault

—— Wetenschappelijk Register behoorende bij Brinkman's Alphabetische Naamlijsten van Boeken ...
— from How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley