XVII 145 Then said the aged Cœlia, Deare dame, And you good Sir, I wote that of youre toyle, And labours long, through which ye hither came, Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle I read you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

H.C. Durand died in 1901, and Calvin Durand died in 1911.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

From the tops of the crosses rise two complete arches of gold crossing each other, and curving deeply downwards at the point of intersection.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[ dis- , apart , + similis , like ], unlike, dissimilar ( § 307 ) dis-tribuō, -ere, -uī, -ūtus , divide, distribute 308 diū , adv., compared diūtius, diūtissimē , for a long time, long ( § 477 ) dō, dare, dedī, datus , give .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

As for Stephen, he leaned back against the framework of the conservatory, dizzy with the conflict of passions,–love, rage, and confused despair; despair at his want of self-mastery, and despair that he had offended Maggie.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In reading many of the publications against the Constitution, a man is apt to imagine that he is perusing some ill-written tale or romance, which instead of natural and agreeable images, exhibits to the mind nothing but frightful and distorted shapes— "Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire"; discoloring and disfiguring whatever it represents, and transforming everything it touches into a monster.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Le responde doña Perfecta de un modo altanero, sin dignarse fijar en él los ojos, por cuya razón él 25 pide urbanamente explicaciones de tal desvío, a lo cual ella contesta rogando al Sr, Pinzón abandone su casa, sin perjuicio de dar oportunamente cuenta de su alevosa conducta dentro de ella.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

These are chambers dug deeply into the rock after the Phenician manner, with horizontal roofs after the oldest fashion of Phenician graves; and shafts lead down to them from the surface.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker

The Despatches of Lord Lyons prove how difficult it is to become familiar with the public spirit in this country, even for a cautious, discreet diplomat and an Englishman.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

Passing through two other apartments, they reached one at the extremity of the wing, from the window of which a view was obtained for a considerable distance down the valley.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

Mishap passed by but few of the remoter homes found unprepared with fuel, and Christmas day, deceitfully fair, dawned on many homes that were to be fatherless, motherless, or robbed of a first-born.
— from The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough

I found it quite insufficient to contain the number of worshippers who, chiefly from the country, not only crowded the interior, but, bareheaded, were upon their knees before the door to a considerable distance down the walk.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

[Pg 71] Of course only a small per cent of the flies that visit our food in the dairies or market places or kitchens actually carry dangerous diseases, but they are all bred in filth and it is not possible without careful experiments or laboratory analysis to determine whether any of the germs among the millions that are on their bodies are dangerous or not.
— from Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane

Every telegram sent by President Lincoln or the members of his Cabinet to the generals in the field, or received by them from those generals, was put on record at Washington, as were all cipher despatches, deciphered by General Eckert.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

But the governor and council did despair already, for a majority of them had finally offered to capitulate, and proposed a neutrality, during the war between Great Britain and South Carolina; and the question, whether the state should belong to Great Britain, or remain one of the United States, to be determined by the treaty of peace; from this offer, Gen. Gadsden and Mr. Thomas Ferguson dissented.
— from A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade by William Dobein James

The Prince leaneth on his arm, pinches his cheek, smoothes his ruffled garment, and, when he looketh at Carr, directeth discourse to divers others.
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake