There are four fundamental methods of delivering an address; all others are modifications of one or more of these: reading from manuscript, committing the written speech and speaking from memory, speaking from notes, and extemporaneous speech.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Through the general hum following the stage pause, with the change of positions, came the muffled sound of a pistol-shot, which not one-hundredth part of the audience heard at the time—and yet a moment's hush—somehow, surely, a vague startled thrill—and then, through the ornamented, draperied, starr'd and striped space-way of the President's box, a sudden figure, a man, raises himself with hands and feet, stands a moment on the railing, leaps below to the stage, (a distance of perhaps fourteen or fifteen feet,) falls out of position, catching his boot-heel in the copious drapery, (the American flag,) falls on one knee, quickly recovers himself, rises as if nothing had happen'd, (he really sprains his ankle, but
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

traváglio , a frame for confining unruly horses.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Moreover we hold a large estate by the banks of the river Xanthus, fair with orchard lawns and wheat-growing land; it becomes us, therefore, to take our stand at the head of all the Lycians and bear the brunt of the fight, that one may say to another, 'Our princes in Lycia eat the fat of the land and drink best of wine, but they are fine fellows; they fight well and are ever at the front in battle.'
— from The Iliad by Homer

The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

They also have to make obeisance to, and feed five married women sumptuously.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The fees of the King's heralds and pursuivants of arms have since varied, and, besides fees upon creations of peers, baronets, and knights, they have still donations for attendance at court upon the festivals of Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, All Saints, and St. George's Day; fees upon installation of Knights of the Garter and Bath, Royal marriages, funerals, public solemnities, &c., with small salaries paid from the Exchequer; but their ancient fees from the nobility, upon certain occasions, have been long discontinued, and their principal emolument arises from grants of arms, the tracing of genealogies, and recording the same in the Registers of the College of Arms."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

‘I am not so blind, Sam, as not to have seen, a long time since, that you entertain something more than a friendly feeling towards Mrs. Winkle’s maid,’ said Mr. Pickwick.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

If moved by Śúrpaṇakhá's prayer The giant Khara sought him there, And fighting fell with baffled aim, His and not Ráma's is the blame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The presence of Mary was a sufficient assurance that all was right; and, upon the matter being explained, Matthew Baillie instantly produced, and spread out before the astonished farmer, from twenty to thirty purses, and desired him to pick out his own from amongst them.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

But since this is not a treatise upon scientific pedagogy, it is necessary to limit the exposition to a few fundamental points.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Now let Ixions wheele stand still a while, Let Danaus daughters now surcease their toyle, Let Sisyphus rest on his restlesse stone, Let not the Apples flye from Plotas sonne, And let the full gorg'd Vultur cease to teare The growing liver of the ravisher; Let these behold my sorrows and confesse
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Back in the trench a frantic French captain was raving at the telephone, whirling the handle round, screaming for "Fire, fire, fire!"
— from Action Front by Boyd Cable

"Is it not a little awkward for you, Althea?" Then a faint flush came to her cheeks.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Then even as one who treads upon a snake unawares among thorns, and flies from it when it rises angrily against him with swelling neck, so Androgeos would have fled.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

He threw a few fragments upon the fire, and in a little while they became red and were consumed.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox