In consequence of this I fulfil his praises, and say that for the things set up, so that he may deign not to be awfully quick of heart in the great place of the Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness, there are provided bright cloth, glittering cloth, soft cloth, and coarse cloth, and the five kinds of things; as to things which dwell in the blue-sea plain, there are things wide of fin and narrow of fin, down to the weeds of the shore; as to LIQUOR, raising high the beer-jars, filling and ranging in rows the bellies of the beer-jars, piling the offerings up, even to rice in grain and rice in ear, like a range of hills, I fulfil his praises with the great ritual, the heavenly ritual.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

We recalled those happy days, and revelled in every lascivious act of the hottest lust.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

On one side of this chamber was a stone slab, about three feet from the ground, and running its entire length like a bunk in a cabin, and on this slab he intimated that I was to sleep.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

See more particular, though somewhat different, accounts of a tumult and massacre which happened at Rome, in Eusebius, (l. viii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

History, with an impartial pen, tells us how the Roman heresy sprang up, and grew, and reigned in every land.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

There was lithe grace, strength, and resolution in every line of her fur-wrapped figure.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

Simultaneously with this consummation, the great supernaturalist reaction, having also reached its extreme limits, had so far subsided, that Nature could once more be studied on scientific principles, with less freedom, indeed, than in old Ionia, but still with tolerable security against the vengeance of interested or fanatical opponents.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

This Idea being unmasqued serves me in the sequell for a generall rule, to establish the true and proper reasons of all that passe for singular and remarqueable in each Language, either in relation to the choice, the mixture, and union of sounds, the force and significations of words, or the Air and manner of expression; For tis most certain that all these things are alter'd according to the genius of a people: So the Spaniards would distinguish themselves from other Nations by their haughtinesse, and affected gravity, and their words are easily understood by a certain pompous Air, that seems to border upon grandeur and Majesty: On the Contrary the Italians are the Nation of the world that seems to be most fond of its pleasure, and its naturall, that this softnesse should be communicated to their Language, and that all their words should breath nothing, but what is sweet, polite, and the most exact harmony; their compositions admitt of no sounds but such, as can flatter the Ear, they suffer not the concours of consonants, whose rudenesse may never so little offend the Organ, but they are extreamly in Love with Vowels, and often allow their sequences to make their pronunciation more sweet and delicate.
— from A Philosophicall Essay for the Reunion of the Languages Or, The Art of Knowing All by the Mastery of One by Pierre Besnier

Internally, the articular ridge is extremely little developed, and not at all reflexed; there is no adductor ridge; there is a minute pit for the lateral depressor muscle, placed almost on the edge of the valve.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

We sit patiently through a recitation in English literature.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: that will at any rate give you three extra days of life.’
— from The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I often think that you must have swallowed a ramrod in early life and poor Henry was born with a foot-rule in his inside.
— from Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

—Has a rather weak moral tone; feels but little regard for things sacred and religious; is easily led into temptation; feels but little moral restraint; and, with large propensities, especially if circumstances favor their excitement, is exceedingly liable to say and do what is wrong.
— from The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by O. S. (Orson Squire) Fowler

He had thrown his hat upon the grass, and the girl could see strength and sweetness and repose in every line of forehead, lip, and chin.
— from Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood