He had brought a lot of chicken feathers, and dried apples, and leaf tobacco, and rags, and old shoes, and sulphur, and asafoetida, and one thing or another; and he, piled them on a breadth of sheet iron in the middle of the floor, and set fire to them. (Quelle: Projekt Gutenberg)
A deep moat lay in front of our door, but the water was in places nearly dried up, and it could easily be crossed. (Quelle: Projekt Gutenberg)
It was long, sharp, and black, with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substance had dried upon it. The blunt end had been trimmed and rounded off with a knife. (Quelle: Projekt Gutenberg)