The reader will notice here two things: first, that though the poem is almost pure Anglo-Saxon, [50] our first speech has already dropped many inflections and is more easily read than Beowulf ; second, that French influence is already at work in Layamon's rimes and assonances, that is, the harmony resulting from using the same vowel sound in several successive lines: And ich wulle varen to Avalun:
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the flesh of this bird is dark and in my estimation reather better than that of the goose.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the flesh of this bird is dark, and in my estimation reather better than that of the goose.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The reader will find instances of choral accompaniment in many examples relating to other sections of the work.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Just as soup was served, Monsieur Follenvie reappeared, repeating his phrase of the evening before: “The Prussian officer sends to ask if Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset has changed her mind.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He generously let others doubt what he felt obliged to affirm; and early put into Adams's hands the "Concepts of Modern Science," a volume by Judge Stallo, which had been treated for a dozen years by the schools with a conspiracy of silence such as inevitably meets every revolutionary work that upsets the stock and machinery of instruction.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The rest ( [567] some few excepted) are in mean estate, ruinous most part, poor, and full of beggars, by reason of their decayed trades, neglected or bad policy, idleness of their inhabitants, riot, which had rather beg or loiter, and be ready to starve, than work.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Finding too late the error into which we had fallen, in suffering ourselves to be cajoled and plundered out of our property by interested speculators, we braced our minds to bear the worst, and determined to meet our difficulties calmly and firmly, nor suffer our spirits to sink under calamities which energy and industry might eventually repair.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Areas of Activity Surveillance is the process by which the IMF appraises its members' exchange rate policies within the framework of a comprehensive analysis of the general economic situation and the policy strategy of each member.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

The Angel meek replied— Call rather fiends of hell those who abuse The mercies they receive: that such, indeed, 400 On whom the light of clearer knowledge beams, Should wander forth, and for the tender voice Of charity should scatter crimes and woe, And drench, where'er they pass, the earth with blood, Might make ev'n angels weep: But the poor tribes That groaned and died, deem not them innocent As injured; more ensanguined rites and deeds Of deepest stain were theirs; and what if God, So to approve his justice, and exact 410 Most even retribution, blood for blood, Bid forth the Angel of the storm of death!
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles

Pliny, in describing the species of Palm, styled Syagrus, says, [11] Mirum de eâ accepimus, cum Phœnice Ave, quæ putatur ex hujus Palmæ argumento nomen accepisse, iterum mori, et renasci ex seipsà.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant

It is in the young that that instinctive affinity is most easily reached and touched; and the simple, ignorant, unworldly words—words which could have touched in Julian no reasoning powers—were the medium which reached it now.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

Of this Gospel Dr. Davidson says: “The author, indeed, must ever remain unknown” (Introduction to New Testament, p. 72).
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

They practically make me an independent man, even rich, as I should count riches, although I suppose Mr. Hemster wouldn’t consider the amount very important.”
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr

I was still innocent and merry like a child; tended my garden or ran upon the hills in glad simplicity; gave not a thought to coquetry or to material cares; and if my eye rested on my own image in a mirror or some sylvan spring, it was to seek and recognise the features of my parents.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

The bonny Scot had given full scope to the play of this small artillery of city wit, by halting his stately pace, and viewing grimly, first the one assailant, and then the other, as if menacing either repartee or more violent revenge.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott