One star also fell in the midst of the land, fell upon Soro, a flower on the grave of Holberg, the thanks of the year from a great many—thanks for his charming plays!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

COCKSHY, a game at fairs and races, where trinkets are set upon sticks, and for one penny three throws at them are accorded, the thrower keeping whatever he knocks off.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

106 In July, while Williamson was engaged on the the upper Savannah, a force of two hundred Georgians, under Colonel Samuel Jack, had marched in the same direction and succeeded in burning two towns on the heads of Chattahoochee and Tugaloo rivers, destroying the corn and driving off the cattle, without the loss of a man, the Cherokee having apparently fallen back to concentrate for resistance in the mountains.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

For the rest it is clear to him that this same National Federation, and universal swearing and fraternising of People and Soldiers, has done 'incalculable mischief.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[124] Cockshy , a game at fairs and races, where trinkets are set upon sticks, and for one penny three throws at them are accorded, the thrower keeping whatever he knocks off.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Meanwhile agents were received from the United States, and French officers passed into its service with little real hindrance from their government.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

By the second, the inhabitants of any country, who are descended, and derive a title to their estates from those who are subdued, and had a government forced upon them against their free consents, retain a right to the possession of their ancestors, though they consent not freely to the government, whose hard conditions were by force imposed on the possessors of that country: for the first conqueror never having had a title to the land of that country, the people who are the descendants of, or claim under those who were forced to submit to the yoke of a government by constraint, have always a right to shake it off, and free themselves from the usurpation or tyranny which the sword hath brought in upon them, till their rulers put them under such a frame of government as they willingly and of choice consent to.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

long, bronze boxes for powder, needles, earscoops, unguentaria, spatulae, a fragment of an étui for instruments, and cauteries.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

For years I have gathered and heaped up scraps and fragments of things; Crush them and dance upon them, and scatter them all to the winds.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

Then to me so lying awake a vision Came without sleep over the seas and touched me, Softly touched mine eyelids and lips; and I, too, Full of the vision, Saw the white implacable Aphrodite, Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled Shine as fire of sunset on western waters; Saw the reluctant Feet, the straining plumes of the doves that drew her, Looking always, looking with necks reverted Back to Lesbos, back to the hills whereunder Shone Mitylene. —SWINBURNE. Ω θεόί, πίς ἆρα Κύπρις, ἢ τίς μερος τοῡδε ξνυήψατο —SOPHOCLES.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Beyond the fact that I am the son of a very great but unknown scholar, a farmer of mediocre talents who lost his farm because he dreamed of humanity instead of cabbages, I have nothing to say."
— from The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath

From its balcony the Counts of Flanders were wont to witness the public games and festivities which so frequently delighted the citizens of Bruges, and there Maximilian had himself been diverted, some three weeks before, by the squeaks and grunts and ungainly bounds of a herd of frantic swine, and the no less uncouth shouts and falls of the blind sportsmen who were pursuing them.
— from The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

There is reason to believe that some vision of the kind, the effect of mirage was sometimes presented to the unsophisticated sailors and fishermen of the olden time and as in those days science had scarcely been born, it is no wonder that a belief in the actual existence of this land was firmly fixed in the minds of a people imaginative and poetic as the Irish, ancient or modern.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

The Judges and captains, assembled in council, after some debate, decided upon sending a force of arquebusiers {115} under the command of Captain Gonzalo Diaz de Pineda
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

"I find it hard," replied the chief justice, "to understand such a frame of mind.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

He was the first who had ever spoken to her of these things, and she listened to him with an utter simplicity and freshness of mind.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

After the usual siesta and five o'clock tea, I went with the Commissioner to attend a meeting of the ladies' committee of the Poultry Show, held in a tent on the spot where the Show is to take place.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Resolved , That the Senate will attend the funeral of Colonel Bland, late a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, at five o'clock this afternoon.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Who could begin to discuss statements built upon such a foundation of gigantic and paralysing falsehoods?
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[347] There is also the Act of June 7, 1862, entitled “An Act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner