She's backit like a peacock, She's breisted like a swan, She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span; Her waist ye weel micht span, And she has a rolling ee, etc.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878 by Various

Estate of Benjamin A. Linsley, by Samuel Holmes and Rev. E. E. Lewis, Trustees 1,000.00 ———— $5,233.22 NEW YORK , $6,438.74.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 07, July, 1894 by Various

There are many stages of the trouble, from the slightly hot and red external ear, which causes the dog to put two claws in the passage and try to scratch it, and sometimes succeed in making a sore place thereby, through the phases of rubbing the side of the head on the carpet or ground, groaning and shaking the head violently, and other manifestations of pain, up to the existence of real canker, when there is much soreness and redness externally, with swelling of the meatus, or passage, a profuse and very dark brown discharge, and a very disagreeable odour.
— from A Manual of Toy Dogs: How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Leslie, Mrs.

She has already received every explanation which the most jealous susceptibility ought to demand.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Others only have their shops here, and return every evening to the tents of their family in the neighbouring mountains.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt