It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Yea, I for love of it shall surely die, For love and grief and pain.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

How I longed for a good Afrikander pony!
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But here he was, cutting and slashing with two experienced swordsman, thrusting, and guarding, and poking, and slicing, and acquitting himself in the most manful and dexterous manner possible, although up to that time he had never been aware that he had the least notion of the science.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty-pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Many young men and women make the mistake of thinking that "well dressed" necessarily means being expensively dressed, and, with this erroneous idea in mind, they fall into as great a pitfall as those who think clothes are of no importance.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I am grieved at page 15 p. 15 what you say about poor M. He can take her into custody however, and oblige her to support the children; such is law, though the property may have been secured to her, she can be compelled to do that.
— from Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow and Other Correspondents by George Borrow

“Let’s set up the cutter, fellows,” proposed Tom, after a pause, “and then we’ll see about getting another pair of shafts.
— from Tom Fairfield's Hunting Trip; or, Lost in the Wilderness by Allen Chapman

Towards the west, a squadron of Uhlans crossed the Sauer at Gunstett, a place we shall soon meet again; while Colonel Schauroth’s Hussars found the bridge at Woerth broken, were fired on by guns and riflemen, and saw large bodies in motion on the heights beyond the stream.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

bye to the priest and officer, we commenced our ascent, the boy leading the way, Fanny climbing like a goat and pulling up the guide, who, having never touched a horse’s rein before, rather hung by it than was of service; D—— supporting Grizzle, who was very frightened and awkward, and I bringing up the rear, and though they were obliged to pause every ten steps for breath, often at a distance; as the weight of my habit encumbered me, and this path is not even used by mules, and by the country people rarely to drive their cattle to the pastures, as there is a better on the other side the mountain.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

Valley of Aranjuez.—The island garden.—The palace.—Strange medley of pictures.—Oratories of the King and the Queen.—Destruction of a grand apartment painted in fresco by Mengs.—Boundless freedom of conduct in the present reign.—Decoration of the Duchess of Ossuna’s house.—Apathy pervading the whole Iberian peninsula.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

SMITH-HURD REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, 1933, containing all the laws of the State of Illinois of a general and permanent character in force to the close of the 58th general assembly.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“In short, a great and practically irreparable mistake will be made if, under the shelter of the opinion of ‘experts,’ from mere carelessness and thoughtlessness, we let the matter slip out of the hands of the thoughtful part of the public; the essential character of one of the greatest ornaments of London will disappear, and no one will have even a sample left to show what the great north-eastern forest was like.
— from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary

Miss Wendover knew every flower that grew—could bud, and graft, and pot, and prune, and do everything that her youthful gardeners could do, beside being ever so much more learned in the science of gardening.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The biggest need was a leader, a man of brains and guts and power.
— from The Buttoned Sky by Robert W. Krepps

Colonel Talbot also had smoothed the way, with great address, for Edward's favourable reception, by dwelling upon his gallant behaviour in the military character, particularly his bravery and generosity at Preston; until, warmed at the idea of their nephew's engaging in single combat, making prisoner, and saving from slaughter, so distinguished an officer as the Colonel himself, the imagination of the Baronet and his sister ranked the exploits of Edward with those of Wilibert, Hildebrand, and Nigel, the vaunted heroes of their line.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott