Names of fishes supply the adjectival components of many place-names on the sea-coast of New England, on the lakes, and along river-courses.
— from The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages by J. Hammond (James Hammond) Trumbull

The Arabs of the Desert ascribe these sounds to a convent of monks preserved miraculously underground; and the sound is supposed to be that of the Nakous , a long narrow metallic ruler suspended horizontally, which the priest strikes with a hammer for the purpose of assembling the monks to prayer.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

Mistress Fitton married for the second time a Captain or Mr. Polwhele late in 1607, or some short time before March, 1608, when the fact of her recent marriage was recorded in the will of her great uncle.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

It is as easy, and far more reasonable I think, to suppose, that the same Power which gave to Saturn a satellite nearly equal in size to Mars, should throw a cluster of minute planetoids into the space which, according to Bodes' empirical law, should have been devoted to one planet of larger dimensions.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 224, February 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The temper of Roman ascendancy, applied by Palmerston to weak States like Greece, and by Disraeli to uncivilized tribes like the Afghans, was thus to be exerted over a people who, in all parts of the Empire, had shown themselves as capable of managing political affairs as any nation in Europe.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease