What better, my good sir, could be expected in love derived from the stews, or in friendship first produced and nourished at the gaming-table?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

With a cry of despair, the disheartened youth dashed the loathsome object to the earth; but, as if the sound of his voice had evoked its former spirit, there glided from out the wavering shadows a tall, gaunt form, gray-robed and silent, with tangled, flowing hair, and burning eyes, its lips drawn back from its snaggled fangs in a horrid look of hate and ferocity.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

With political influence? Help these men seasoned by experience in land disputes in that region?"
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

Belladonna: extract in large doses.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

On the contrary, it is quite clear from Scripture itself that a great revival of them was to be expected in later days, as Peter says in Acts ii. 17, quoting the prophet Joel: "
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond

Perched on the summit of a lofty and broken eminence, it looked down upon the vale of the Arno and commanded Florence with all its domes, towers, and palaces, the villas that encircle it and the roads that lead to it.
— from Behind the Throne by William Le Queux

He told me this as he bent down to kiss a sweet little prattling Cora, and said that he was very fond of children, and felt particularly so toward the little fairy, who, seated in her chair, was busily engaged in laying down the law to a culprit kitten, who, it appeared, had been guilty of leze majeste to her Christmas doll.
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph