Then I reproached myself with my unthankful temper, and that I had repined at my solitary condition; and now what would I give to be on shore there again!
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

This child of mysterious ancestry, this wanderer from the East, this robber of roosts and cunning worker in metals, possessed nor hat nor shoes: his naked breast and his unprotected arms must suffer cold at night, yet he seemed wonderfully happy.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

They also volatilized the idea of baptism and the Lord’s supper into that of a merely spiritual cleansing and nourishing by the word of the gospel.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Often I wish I could sit and admire calmly, as Mrs. Senter can, and not get boiling with excitement over the past.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

This ascendency lasted as long as proper incentives for development of the art were steadily provided by responsible bodies; in other words, so long as the great theatres of Italy—La Scala at Milan, San Carlo at Naples, Communale at Bologna, Apollo at Rome, Fenice at Venice, Carlo Felice at Genoa, Raggio [transcriber: Regio?] at Turin, Pergola at Florence, etc.—were in receipt of regular subventions.
— from The Operatic Problem by William Johnson Galloway

'What ails me!' shouted Cumhal, 'are not the sods as wet as the sands of the Three Rosses? and are not the fleas in the blanket as many as the waves of the sea and as lively?
— from The Secret Rose by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats