These being cast on the floor in a promiscuous heap, yielded a quantity of occupation in arranging, erecting, and putting away; the superintendence of which task evidently afforded the old gentleman extreme delight, and engaged him for some time with great briskness and activity.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And then were discovered, they say, the ways of playing with the dice and the knucklebones and the ball, and all the other games excepting draughts (for the discovery of this last is not claimed by the Lydians).
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Just as Odin, a heroic defender of Mithridates, after traversing various unknown countries, finally reaches the north of Europe, organizes the various Teutonic kingdoms, settles his sons upon the thrones of Germany, England, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and instructs his people to gather strength and courage, so as eventually to take revenge on the cursed Romans
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

It is to expel those foreign capitals from a trade which their own grows every day more and more insufficient for carrying on, that the Spaniards and Portuguese endeavour every day to straiten more and more the galling bands of their absurd monopoly.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Likewise the double teeth or grinders, either drop out, or rot away; so as now to be too few remaining to comminute solid food.
— from Medica Sacra Or, A Commentary on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead

The Irvingian Theory, or Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity. 5th.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

His leg and hoof, as the theory of genetic Evolution declares, have been gradually fashioned to their present shape from an original limb in the common Mammalian ancestor, which by other modifications has equally produced the totally different members possessed by other mammals.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

Hardcastle relates that two shy mountain tribes of Guatemala "exchange dogs and a species of very sharp red pepper, by leaving them on the top of the mountain, and going to the spot in turn."
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The work, however, has hitherto been neglected except in the curriculum of schools which have vocational courses, so that only girls electing domestic arts have had the opportunity of doing it as a part of their school program, but there is no reason why it should be limited to these girls.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

The pro-Bruce faction, composed largely of men folk, claimed for their protégé a splendid common sense in selection of his gifts: but the women and girls, who made up the other group, envied Deane not only the gifts Terry gave her, but also—and more so—the rarefied romantic spirit of the youth who conceived and offered them.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson