That mode of poetic diction, which introduces its similitudes by "as the," "so the," and "like the," is ruinous in songs.
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

If anything like this is repeated, I shall order an inquiry and put an end to thy management."
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

For lawless and ungovern’d, had the Age The Nine wild Sisters seen run mad with Rage, Debaucht to Savages, till his keen Pen Brought their long banisht Reason back again, Driven by his Satyres into Natures Fence, And lasht the idle Rovers into Sense.
— from Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Elkanah Settle

Only a little thought is required, it seems to me, to assure us that we cannot be the judges of our own punishment on this earth.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08 by Winston Churchill

The first question he asked me was why I stayed such a long time in Russia, I said it was because it interested me.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

I am sure at least that I regard it so myself; for the civil servants of France have never appeared to any foreigner as at all the flower of their country, while her naval officers may challenge competition with the world.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson