[for he that should compare it thereto would not be mistaken]; but its leaves are like the leaves of mint.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

His bearing is lofty, a little above his station, but probably not much above his deserts.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

About sunset, coming near the Wild Island, Pantagruel spied afar off a huge monstrous physeter (a sort of whale, which some call a whirlpool), that came right upon us, neighing, snorting, raised above the waves higher than our main-tops, and spouting water all the way into the air before itself, like a large river falling from a mountain.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Let AB represent the refracting plane Surface of any Body, and IC a Ray incident very obliquely upon the Body in C, so that the Angle ACI may be infinitely little, and let CR be the refracted Ray.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

With me, they are but flies and atoms, that confound and distract my will; I lay no great stress upon my opinions; but I lay as little upon those of others, and fortune rewards me accordingly: if I receive but little advice, I also give but little.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In the meantime, looking toward the cat, who was again snugly stowed away upon my coat, I discovered to my infinite surprise, that she had taken the opportunity of my indisposition to bring into light a litter of three little kittens.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

And again, after mass, when we looked in to tell Théodore to bring a larger loaf than usual because our cousins had taken advantage of the fine weather to come over from Thiberzy for luncheon, we had in front of us the steeple, which, baked and brown itself like a larger loaf still of 'holy bread,' with flakes and sticky drops on it of sunlight, pricked its sharp point into the blue sky.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

No other country except [ 8 ] China can trace back its language and literature, its religious beliefs and rites, its domestic and social customs, through an uninterrupted development of more than three thousand years.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Thou shouldst have died, for thy sin was great, but I laid a lesser burden on thee.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He transferred all his thoughts to it with an instant revolution of idea, and holding on by it like a little sailor on a rope, drew Bice close till he could succeed in the arduous task, not unattended by danger, of flinging himself from one to another.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

the empty house bursts into light and life and music, and, exulting in its Cinderella finery, welcomes the guests with all the air of an establishment that has been accustomed to this kind of thing for years.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

THE WORKMANSHIP OF THE PRAYER BOOK: Its Literary and Liturgical Aspects.
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

("More Letters", I. page 215. See also parts of Darwin's letter to Bates in "Life and Letters", II. page 392.)
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

None of them can be said to have founded a school, but Irving left a literary tradition and Cooper had followers in the field of historical fiction.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

As he said these words, Romulus and Remus came forward, and the vast assembly, after gazing for a moment in silent wonder upon their tall and graceful forms, in which they saw combined athletic strength and vigor with manly beauty, they burst into long and loud acclamations.
— from Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

[Bursts into laughter and lays his hands on PIKE'S shoulders.]
— from The Man from Home by Harry Leon Wilson