Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]

O ! many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant !

Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887) Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him.”

Copeland, like most slaves, is woefully underdocumented; we know that she somehow became literate, migrated to New York in the 1880s and found a job in domestic service.