She wrote us down a letter for a chest of that home-made wine of hers which she calls Rosolio, and which lies in our warehouse along with her furniture.”
— from The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray

Cuchulain I thought he had come from one of you Out of some Connaught rath, and would lap up milk and mew; But if he so loved water I have the tale awry.
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

The hope and the wish of the people of the South were that the disagreeable necessity of separation would be peacefully met, and be followed by such commercial regulations as would least disturb the prosperity and future [pg 439] intercourse of the separated States.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

A handsome limousine car pulled up at its carriage block as Lanyard drove by, one time, and a pretty woman, exquisitely gowned, alighted and was welcomed by hospitable front doors that opened before she could ring: a woman Lanyard knew as one of the most daring, diabolically clever, and unscrupulous creatures of the Wilhelmstrasse, one whose life would not have been worth an hour's purchase had she ventured to show herself in Paris, London, or Petrograd at any time since the outbreak of the war.
— from The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

From Little Venice the tourist’s ship enters the St. Clair River, along which live innumerable captains of ships.
— from The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas by James Oliver Curwood

We ascertain the condition of the vagina, whether it be soft, cool, relaxed, and well lubricated with mucus, as described at the beginning of the last chapter; whether the os uteri be dilated; whether its edge be thin and tense, or already becoming soft, cushiony, and yielding; whether the membranes are ruptured; whether the presentation be a natural one, and whether the pelvis be rightly formed.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

It has kept them side by side like two strong colours, red and white, like the red and white upon the shield of St. George.
— from Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Thirdly, if missionaries, amateur or professional, there were in Canada before 1558 they would be Catholics, and would introduce, not a Creator never addressed in prayer, but crosses, beads, the Madonna, the Saints, and such Catholic rites as would leave material traces.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang