The answer requires a brief summary of the origin of selected tool shapes, particularly those whose form was common to both the British Isles and the Continent in the 17th century.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

Jostling against clerks going to post the day's letters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to dinner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and suitors of all sorts, and against the general crowd, in whose way the forensic wisdom of ages has interposed a million of obstacles to the transaction of the commonest business of life; diving through law and equity, and through that kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody knows whence or how—we only knowing in general that when there is too much of it we find it necessary to shovel it away—the lawyer and the law-stationer come to a rag and bottle shop and general emporium of much disregarded merchandise, lying and being in the shadow of the wall of Lincoln's Inn, and kept, as is announced in paint, to all whom it may concern, by one Krook.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

They are represented as beautiful, slender maidens in the full bloom of youth, with hands and arms lovingly intertwined, and are either undraped, or wear a fleecy, transparent garment of an ethereal fabric.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Clayton endeavored to bribe him to go to a restaurant and bring some real refreshments.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

she saw seven doves come flying, who said to her, "Ah! better that your hand had been cut off, you cause of all our misfortune, ere it plucked that accursed rosemary and brought such a calamity upon us!
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Taking a rough average between silver and gold, and leaving jewels out of consideration, we shall be able to calculate that eleven mule loads of treasure would keep Umra Khan and his family very comfortably for the rest of their days.
— from The Relief of Chitral by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

Bill challenged him to a race and both struck off down the stream, as they swam passing (p. 227)
— from The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill

I worked day and night at it, tatting at rehearsal and between scenes, and lady-stars often bought my work, to my great pleasure as well as profit.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

"What's that?" asked Ruth, a bit startled.
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real by Laura Lee Hope

Bruce, however, tied an iron belaying-pin to a rope, and began sounding for bottom.
— from Treasure of the Seas Illustrated by James De Mille

"He absolutely excluded," says his biographer, "all who ventured to appear at the Assembly Room at Bath so attired.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

THE SEAS Central African Republic four equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, green, and yellow with a vertical red band in center; a yellow five-pointed star to the hoist side of the blue band Chad three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red note: similar to the flag of Romania; also similar to the flags of Andorra and Moldova, both of which have a national coat of arms centered in the yellow band; design was based on the flag of France Chile two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; a blue square the same height as the white band at the hoist-side end of the white band; the square bears a white five-pointed star in the center representing a guide to progress and honor; blue symbolizes the sky, white is for the snow-covered Andes, and red represents the blood spilled to achieve independence note: design was influenced by the US flag China red with a large yellow five-pointed star and four smaller yellow five-pointed stars (arranged in a vertical arc toward the middle of the flag) in the upper hoist-side corner Christmas Island territorial flag; divided diagonally from upper hoist to lower fly; the upper triangle is green with a yellow image of the Golden Bosun Bird superimposed, while the lower triangle is blue with the Southern Cross constellation, representing Australia, superimposed; a centered yellow disk displays a green map of the island note: the flag of Australia is used for official purposes Clipperton Island the flag of France is used Cocos
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency