Thus a great excess of light does not give the idea of light but of pain; as in forcibly opening the eye when it is much inflamed.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

Few of its men were bold enough to venture out among the rocks to reach the open sea and attempt the fishing which the Norwegians carry on to a great extent on less dangerous parts of the coast.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

Last summer, when a great employer of labour down the Gulf was telling where birds could be shot to the greatest advantage out of season, and I was objecting that it was not clean sport, he said, "Oh, but Indians can shoot for food at any time— and we're all Indians here!"
— from Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by William Charles Henry Wood

[Pg 193] Then tell how the voracious pigs, With greedy spite press'd to the trow , And gave each other loyal digs, Nor car'd for e'er a waddling sow.
— from The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood by Various

A dweller in Galilee at the time of the Christian era, a dweller in Athens at the time of Socrates—it was possible for each of these to live simply and comfortably without any great expenditure of labour; does morality require that one should work harder than one need for luxuries that one does not want?
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

He went into the School one day, which was against the rule; It made the children laugh and play To see a dog—" Mischievous Thorny got no further, for a general explosion of laughter drowned the last words, and Ben's command "Out, you rascal!" sent Sanch to the right-about in double-quick time.
— from Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott