Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But, despite the wide fame he had won as a criminologist, chess enthusiasts still shook their heads when his name was mentioned, as people are wont to do when they hear the name of a man of brilliant parts who has not made the most of his life.
— from The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

The horse should not be permitted to become heavy, but, by demanding a close collection, every step should be light and easy, and the balance should be such that the animal will be capable of going forward at any moment.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

Albert the Bear , markgrave of Brandenburg, called the Bear, "not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since," says Carlyle, "and which grows more so in our late times" (1100-1175).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

[61] That excellent and conservative critic, Epes Sargent, says of the author of "Don Juan," "He may have been overrated in his day; but his place in English literature must ever be in the front rank of the immortals."
— from Genius in Sunshine and Shadow by Maturin Murray Ballou

1838 5,198,956 $112,817.94 1839 26,440,634 145,331.39 1840 25,447,146 134,139.66 1841 25,596,862 151,038.24 1842 24,715,380 159,205.84 1843 21,812,941 159,189.64 1844 23,260,385 176,271.21 1845 24,788,886 163,726.24 1846 26,918,613 227,433.94 1847 29,927,029 250,244.13 1848 31,246,305 306,138.16 1849 32,446,330 404,332.90 1850 36,665,399 411,044.78 1851 45,005,518 572,776.63 1852 58,058,485 617,855.64 1853 68,328,546 772,915.81 1854 72,849,503 959,209.18 1855 94,791,215 1,532,692.68 1856 95,859,735 1,381,114.39 1857 99,016,598 1,783,834.19 1858 104,475,275 1,567,948.39 1859 101,052,666 1,256,820.94 1860 103,680,566 1,969,794.00 In 1835 there were thirteen churches in Brooklyn, as follows: St. Ann's, St. John's, and Christ Church, Episcopalian; Sands Street, York Street, and Washington Street, Methodist, and the African Methodist; First, Second, and Third Presbyterian; St. James', Roman Catholic; Nassau Street, Baptist; and Joralemon Street, Dutch Reformed.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander

3. Abridgment, abstract, compend, compendium, epitome, summary, synopsis, conspectus, breviary, brief, sum and substance.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Listening to Flamina, nobody can think that the benefit will be all on her side; we’re getting some magic from her that breathes in that wonderful voice of hers, which, as you say, would soften a----” “A corky carrot, eh?” sniffed Sesooā, her spirits dropping with a squawk from airy realms of love and song, to the skirts of the war-garden on Night-Heron Hill.
— from Camp Fire Girls in War and Peace by Isabel Hornibrook