Hurrying along the street, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale encountered the eldest female member of his church, a most pious and exemplary old dame, poor, widowed, lonely, and with a heart as full of reminiscences about her dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied gravestones.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The food produced by a field of potatoes is not inferior in quantity to that produced by a field of rice, and much superior to what is produced by a field of wheat.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Now soon shall Rávaṇ rue his theft, And fall, of realm and life bereft.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In fact, the two had shrunk from personal religious discussion, not knowing how it might end, and fearful of risking a friendship very dear to both, and which they felt somehow, without quite knowing why, would never be the same, but either tenfold stronger or sapped at its foundation, after such a communing together.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Blount, Glossographia , 1670, gives: ‘ Umbrello (Ital. Ombrella), a fashion of round and broad Fans, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little shadow, Fan, or other thing
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The fame of Julius the Second, Leo the Tenth, and Sixtus the Fifth, is accompanied by the superior merit of Bramante and Fontana, of Raphael and Michael Angelo; and the same munificence which had been displayed in palaces and temples was directed with equal zeal to revive and emulate the labors of antiquity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I had no vessels to hold anything that was liquid, except two runlets, which were almost full of rum, and some glass bottles—some of the common size, and others which were case bottles, square, for the holding of water, spirits, &c. I had not so much as a pot to boil anything, except a great kettle, which I saved out of the ship, and which was too big for such as I desired it—viz.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

If the hemp and flax of Riga are purchased with the tobacco of Virginia, which had been purchased with British manufactures, the merchant must wait for the returns of two distinct foreign trades, before he can employ the same capital in repurchasing a like quantity of British manufactures.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[470] The word brugh refers simply to the appearance of a tumulus, or souterrain beneath a fort or rath, and means, therefore, mansion or dwelling-place.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Then the Clansman sailed into the quay, and there was a flinging of ropes and general hurry and bustle, while people came crowding round the gangways, calling out to each other in every variety of dialect and accent.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

The same remarks apply to the prep. de ; e.g. , armailt mhòr de dhaoinibh agus a dh' eachaibh, a great army of men and of horses , lan do [de] reubainn agus a dh' aingidheachd, full of ravining and wickedness , Luke xi. 39.
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

Ring the bell and ask for our rooms and the maid will show you up.
— from The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

They are all fond of reading, and there are many who never had an opportunity of attending the schools who, nevertheless, can read.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti by Samuel Marsden

Dolorosus, when in the course of human events you are next invited to give a Fourth-of-July Oration, grasp at the opportunity, and take for your subject "Health." Tell your audience, when you rise to the accustomed flowers of rhetoric as the day wears on, that Health is the central luminary, of which all the stars that spangle the proud flag of our common country are but satellites; and close with a hint to the plumed emblem of our nation, (pointing to the stuffed one which will probably be exhibited on the platform,) that she should not henceforward confine her energies to the hatching of short-lived eaglets, but endeavor rather to educate a few full-grown birds.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"But this girl must be a hardened wretch indeed," resumed Mrs. Macfiendy, the first speaker: "I suppose her fellow is tired of her, and she will be on the town soon —— " "In the church-yard rather," replied Mr. Seymour, whom a feeling of resentment at these vulgar expressions of female spite had hitherto kept silent:—"Miss Fitzhenry has lost all power of charming the eye of the libertine, and even the wish;—but she is an object whom the compassionate and humane cannot behold, or listen to, without the strongest emotion."
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

The kindliness and merrymaking of these islanders, who, one knows, are full of riot and severity and daring, has a quality and attractiveness that is absent altogether from the life of towns, and makes one think of the life that is shown in the ballads of Scotland.
— from In Wicklow and West Kerry by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

It's as full of rats and mice as an old cheese is of mites.
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Here she was interrupted by Eudoxia, who poured out a flood of reproaches and finally desired her to resume her task.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

At the end it may be claimed justly, that they were three great soldiers—that they served the country with equal fidelity—that they lived and acted without the manifestation in either of a feeling of rivalry, and that they earned the public gratitude.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell