For, from the Time of Artigrius , Archbishop of Ardmagh in 822, for near 200 Years the cruel Danes miserably ravaged this Kingdom, destroying, by Fire and Sword, every Establishment, as well of Piety as Learning, (to both which, and to all religious Maxims of civilized Society, they had been avowed implacable Enemies) till they were themselves, in 1014, totally defeated at Clontarf , by the invincible Arms of the Great Monarch, Bryan Borou , from whom descended a Race conspicuous for exemplary Prelates, heroick Leaders, and steady Patriots.
— from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke

Well, then, I kept silent; only once did I speak, and then I called the captain's attention to a red mark, one could still see the box on the ear the man had received.
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von

Psóra, a scurfe, a tetter, a running mange or cancerous scab, a Ringe-worme.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

The motion was in answer to a royal message on continental subsidies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various