These books are novels in miniature, and the excess of them will lead to the want of novels at full length.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

And now I must ask the excited reader not to lose his head on one side or the other, but to draw a sane moral from these grim absurdities.
— from Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by Bernard Shaw

Alas too many years are numbred In my account to entertain the benefit Which youth in thee Cesario , and ability Might hope for and require, it were Injustice To rob a gentleman deserving memory
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

120 The principal streams which water it are the Nahr-el-Melk, or Badas, six miles south of Jebili, the Nahr Amrith, a strong running brook which empties itself into the sea a few miles south of Tortosa (Antaradus), the Nahr Kublé, which joins the Nahr Amrith near its mouth, and the Eleutherus or Nahr-el-Kabir, which reaches the sea a little north of Arka.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson