The Earl of Leicester probably first was famous in this way, if we may judge from the quaint painting at Penshurst, where he is bounding her several feet into the air; but was not so accomplished as Sir Christopher, who in his official robes of Lord Chancellor danced in the Hall of the Inner Temple with the seals and mace of his office before him, an undignified proceeding, reminding one of the scene in one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea

"Again, in Siwan, they celebrate two days, on which they go to their synagogues, recite the Shema, and offer up prayers, read out of the Torah, and translate from the books of their Prophets, curse our king, and execrate our government.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

The cider that oozed out under pressure ran out of the trough by a lip into a flat tub called a "trin;" or into the "kieve."
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

As usual, Pete rode one of the burros.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs

The outlines of the last appearance I described were well defined, and in its upper part reminded one of the [146] folds of material.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

I should like to compare the whole to the icebound surface of a northern 404 sea: it is not smooth, although hard and immoveable, and the hills and hollows of the uneven plain remind one of the billows that rolled when it was yet unfrozen.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Each commune is a unit perpetually reformed out of the same constituents.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa