if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like Citron-waters matrons cheeks inflame, Or change complexions at a losing game; If e'er with airy horns I planted heads, Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds, Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude, Or discompos'd the head-dress of a Prude, Or e'er to costive lap-dog gave disease, Which not the tears of brightest eyes could ease: Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin, That single act gives half the world the spleen."
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

"After leaving Gwillimbury [ i. e. , the Landing]," says the Gazetteer of 1799, "you enter the Holland river and pass into Lake Simcoe, by the head of Cook's bay, to the westward of which are oak-plains, where the Indians cultivate corn; and on the east is a tract of good land.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

To present an aged parent with one of these costly and splendid mantles, known as “longevity garments,” is esteemed by the Chinese an act of filial piety and a delicate mark of attention.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Quidam prae verecundia simul et dolore in insaniam incidunt, eo quod a literatorum gradu in examine excluduntur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

p. 1 sq.; Baur Die Christliche Gnosis (Tübingen, 1835); Matter Histoire Critique du Gnosticisme (2nd ed., Strasbourg and Paris, 1843); R. A. Lipsius Gnosticismus in Ersch u. Gruber s.v.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The inside, it is true, is not answerable to the grand appearance it makes without, being but 30 feet broad, and consisting chiefly of a long gallery in each of the two storeys that runs from one end of the house to the other; on the south side whereof are little cells, wherein the patients have their lodgings, and on the north the windows that give light to the galleries, which are divided in the middle by a handsome iron gate, to keep the men and women asunder.
— from London in 1731 by Gonzales, Manoel, Don

[238] CHAPTER VIII (p. 167) JUSTICE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT I. English Law The preponderating principle in the governmental system of Great Britain to-day is the rule of law, which means, in effect, two things: first, that no man may be deprived of liberty or property save on account of a breach of the law proved in one of the ordinary courts and, second, that no man stands above the law and that for every violation of the law some reparation may be obtained, whatever the station or character of the offender.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

A living God is essentially conceiving himself by intellect.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

In queste voci languide risuona Un non so che di flebile e soave, Che al cor gli serpe, ed ogni sdegno ammorza, E gli occhi a lagrimar gl' invoglia e sforza.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

If not laughter, of which only Shakespeare among the immortals has a copious and unfailing spring, there is at least gaiety in every piece, and a cordial injunction to men to find joy in their existence to the full.
— from Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson by John Morley

I remember when I was quite a little girl I examined her dress very carefully to see if it could be fastened on the shoulders in the manner of my paper dolls, with little folded-over flaps.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Meeting of the Investigator and Le Geographe in Encounter Bay.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir