Bummer , literally one who sits or idles about; a loafer; one who sponges upon his acquaintances.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

They consisted chiefly of the relatives and friends of the queen-mother, who considered that she had been insultingly treated, and her brother Leonidas once went so far in his abusive language as to hint to Lykurgus that he knew that he meant to be king, throwing the suspicion upon Lykurgus, if anything should happen to the child, that he would be supposed to have managed it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

a Scooner of 80 Tuns, aboard of which they put 10 Carriage Guns, and 50 Men, and Low himself went Captain, and nam’d her the Fancy , making one Charles Harris , (who was at first forced into their Service out of the Greyhound of Boston , by Lowther , of which Ship Harris was second Mate) Captain of the Brigantine: Out of these Vessels they took several Hands, and encreased the Company to 80 Men, who all signed the Articles, some willingly, and a few perhaps by Force, and so sailed away from Marblehead.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Then let us welcome the New Guest With lusty brimmers of the best; Mirth always should Good Fortune meet, And renders e'en Disaster sweet: And though the Princess turn her back, Let us but line ourselves with sack, We better shall by far hold out, Till the next Year she face about.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

We were received by Mrs. Beaumont with great civility, and by Lord Orville with something more.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Here is a small burnt patch of flooring; here is the tinder from a little bundle of burnt paper, but not so light as usual, seeming to be steeped in something; and here is—is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In his novel of Kenilworth, Walter Scott has been guilty of a woeful perversion of the old tradition, travestied from the Berkshire legend of Wayland Smith.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

But the world goes on its way, and the wheel turns, and the wrongs of the Browns, like other wrongs, seem in a fair way to get righted.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

In his rounds of zeal the Bishop seeks Once more fair Lennox' sea-girt isle; When lo! from out the gathering shades, The brilliant lights of welcome smile.
— from Carols of Canada, Etc., Etc. by E. S. (Elizabeth Susan) MacLeod

Charming weather for crossing to Aldea Gallega, that self-same village in whose praises Baretti launches out with so much luxuriance.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

At last, far away I saw the church of Egmont, rising out of a flat land (not unlike the Broad land) on which sails were passing in a misty distance.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

The brothers looked on with smiling faces, but Tim Linkinwater smiled not, nor moved for some minutes.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Amid all these abominations, but little of which she understood, she bustled about assiduously, retaining her gay freshness, with her fine hair and her clear eyes, the eyes of the child she was.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

But that the place had been long occupied was sufficiently apparent from the quantity of ashes mixed with calcined and broken bones of the common domestic animals which it contained.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

He puffed and blew like one working simultaneously at bugle and big drum on hearing an allusion to Victoria.
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith