Nay, the prime of life enjoyed to the full, or even to a degree of envy, does not assuage or moderate the grief occasioned by the untimely death 364 of such hopeful youths; but lamentations and bewailings fly, like mournful birds, about their tombs, for a long while after; especially upon all fresh occasions, new commotions, and the beginning of great actions, the passionate desire of them is renewed, as by the sun’s morning rays.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Thus with their hearts by fear oppressed In full assembly spoke the Blest, And bade five loveliest nymphs, as fair As lightning in the evening air, Armed with their winning wiles, seduce From his stern vows the great recluse.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Lamb pye; a beating: from lambo.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Hastings was acquitted, and the spoliation of India went on; but the seeds of reform were sown, and grew and bore fruit long after Burke's labors were ended.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The little girl from India was sitting on a big footstool looking on.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Now," said my uncle, "let us breakfast, and break fast like people who have a long day's work before them."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Whether there is now, or ever will be, this communion of women and children and of property, in which the private and individual is altogether banished from life, and things which are by nature private, such as eyes and ears and hands, have become common, and all men express praise and blame, and feel joy and sorrow, on the same occasions, and the laws unite the city to the utmost,—whether all this is possible or not, I say that no man, acting upon any other principle, will ever constitute a state more exalted in virtue, or truer or better than this.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[A; b6] for liquids to come out in a long, thin spurt.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We concealed, as well as we could, our glee at the appearance of the rich cream, the new bread and butter, fresh lake trout, and pile of snow-white eggs.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Lo, what befell!
— from As You Like It by William Shakespeare

In considering the usual phenomena of snake-poisoning in man, we must therefore take this essential difference into account, and 169 draw up separately a clinical description of the symptoms observed after a bite from a Cobra ( Colubridæ ), for instance, and another list of those that accompany a bite from Lachesis or Vipera berus ( Viperidæ ).
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

I did it the other way about, for I was not more than twelve when a boy friend loaned me a big thick book, printed in very small type, an Irish history of Ireland.
— from Doing My Bit For Ireland by Margaret Skinnider

We had brought a few in a bag for luncheon, thinking it might help him over the hills.
— from Gala-Days by Gail Hamilton

It was soon discovered, too, that the iron pipes belonging to the Water-works, laid across the Bridge, had greatly injured the stone-work and crowns of the Arches, by frequent leaking; whilst the piers of the Great Arch were weakened, and the current of the tide was altered, by a new Arch being granted to the Water-works.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

And we have such a blue funk, lest this confounded rain should never cease, that we talk of our blues till we get blue in the face.
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

Over all the land, wasps and bees and butterflies fall like leaves.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham