Some little time back a very bulky coffin was opened, and found to contain a large quantity of small corpses packed carefully round a large corpse.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Rejected C. Harried C. Undone C. Belammed C. Flawed C. Corrected C. Fabricitant C. Froward C. Slit C. Perused C. Ugly C. Skittish C. Emasculated C. Drawn C. Spongy C. Roughly handled C. Riven C.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

In the amphitheatre and other such resorts the same or similar spectacles, continually presented, cloy at last.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

an ecclesiastical court, PP, S2; consistorie , PP, CM.—Church Lat. consistorium , a place of assembly, from Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Chuang Chou as, 149 – 150 Chu Wu-nêng . See Chu Pa-chieh Ch’ü Yüan .
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

RA. 96, what concern was it of his? interesse rē̆ī pūblicae sē cum Pompēiō colloquī , Caes.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

SYN: Cabal, plot, conspiracy, machination, artifice, design, manoeuvres, cunning, duplicity, trickery, chicanery, love affair, amour, ruse.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Our meal was rather odd; it consisted of fruits, some curiously prepared cereals, and a hot palatable drink.
— from Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Ella Merchant

And if any man of Warre or other Person whatsoever shall assault or use any violence to any ship or vessell, or the persons therein, within the limits aforesaid his Ma ty will hold such offender being lawfully convicted thereof for a Pirate, and will cause his Officers to inflict such punishment thereupon, as in Cases of Piracy is usuall, if the said offenders can be apprehended within any his Ma tyes Countrey or Dominions, or any other, or any other ships or goods belonging to them, To w ch purpose his Ma ty will cause notice to be given from the Court of his Admiralty to all his Officers in Ports and Vice-Admiralls and Captaines of his Forts and ships, But if all this notwithstanding, the said offenders cannot be attached or apprehended, then the Party wronged, upon sufficient testimonyes to be recorded in the Court of Admiralty may take out of the said Court Processe, conteining a Monition for the said pretended offenders, to appeare in the Court of Admiralty within 4 moneths next after the date of the said Processe, there to answer for the pretended wrong or violence, the said Processes to be affixed openly in some eminent place of the Royall Exchange, London.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Then, when she was only seventeen, Colonel Peter Croix came into her life.
— from Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

Doucebelle determined that, if she could possibly contrive it, without wounding the feelings of Father Nicholas, her next confession should be made to Father Bruno.
— from Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt