A very interesting paper upon London life in the last century occurs in the second volume of Knight’s ‘London;’ in which it is observed that “a gibbet’s tassel” was one of the first sights which met the eye of a stranger approaching London from the sea.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

As the Scythians made contracts one with another by mingling the warm blood of their bodies in a cup and drinking thereof, so the Persians used living letters in their early correspondence.
— from Chats on Postage Stamps by Frederick John Melville

The material of the book before us, collected after her death by her executor, Count de Falloux, of the French Academy, was written without any fixed plan, at various periods, upon loose leaves in a rapid, illegible hand, most of it in pencil.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

“Perhaps Uncle Lucius——” “Lady Isabel,” shouted Priscilla, “come here at once.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

In the following he plays upon like letters in a wonderful manner.
— from Junius Unmasked Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Joel Moody

C'est une rapsode foraine Qui donne aux gens pour un liard L' Istoyre de la Magdalayne, Du Juif Errant ou d'Abaylar .
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

I knows 'em, the proud, upsetting, lazy lot, I do;" and Mrs. Kershaw stopped with a jerk, more for want of breath than lack of matter.
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander

18, 25)—a phrase which is only once extended to a trespass-offering for a purely unconscious lapse (Lev. iv. 31).
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick