Poseidonius says, but I do not know whether truly, that Africa is traversed by few, and those small rivers; yet he speaks of the same rivers, namely those between Lynx and Carthage, which Artemidorus describes as numerous and large.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

THE AUDIENCE (applauding as the first luster is lighted and drawn up): Ah! CUIGY (to Brissaille, looking at Christian): 'Tis a pretty fellow!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

alimanguhun a having large lower arms and small biceps like a crab.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, Thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, Thou and all thy bands, And many people with thee; and in the Koran, ‘Gog and Magog shall have a passage open for them, and they shall hasten from every high hill;’ and in the Apocalypse, ‘Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them in battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Washed and Unwashed Coffee Where water is plenty, the ripe coffee cherries are fed by a stream of water into a pulping machine which breaks the outer skins, permitting the pulpy matter enveloping the beans to be loosened and carried away in further washings.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“If it had blown up—” “No one in the whole of Calle Anloague would have been left alive,” concluded Capitan Toringoy, feigning valor and indifference in the presence of his family.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Some authors 826 also have stated that he was meditating a voyage round the larger portion of Arabia, the country of the Ethiopians, Libya ( i.e. Africa), and Numidia beyond Mount Atlas to Gadeira ( i.e. Cadiz), 827 inward into our sea 370 ( i.e. the Mediterranean); thinking that after he had subdued both Libya and Carchedon ( i.e. Carthage), he might with justice be called king of all Asia.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It has scenes immensely effective in the theatre; three of them—the two between Lear and Goneril and between Lear, Goneril and Regan, and the ineffably beautiful scene in the Fourth Act between Lear and Cordelia—lose in the theatre very little of the spell they have for imagination; and the gradual interweaving of the two plots is almost as masterly as in Much Ado .
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

This halt delayed the procession and meant that a hand was being engaged; but oftener than not the pause was short, and the look on the late applicant's face as he or she turned to scurry back like a chased dog along the corridor told its own story.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Mr. McGuffey performed a similar office with his brawny left, and Captain Scraggs looked apprehensive, like a man who is about to be kissed by another in public.
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

She had looked at David, who was older than she, with the eyes of a mother, and his pride had melted away, and he had held out his hands for her benefits, like a child who has no compunctions about receiving gifts because he knows that they are his right of childhood.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

This Gruffydd Jones had great trouble at Hafod Ucha between Llanrwst and Conway, to lay a Spirit.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

He listened, and remembered his mechanics, the senseless destruction of the Colossus, the inevitable ruin of the Cenacolo , Astro's foolish and horrible fall; and asked himself:— 'Will this discovery be lost as completely, as ignominiously as all else which I have done?
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

“Which I do assure you, Pip,” he would often say, in explanation of that liberty; “I found her a tapping the spare bed, like a cask of beer, and drawing off the feathers in a bucket, for sale.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

AMEN: Will you now explain the significance of the dotted blue lines, as compared with the solid blue lines on the right-hand side of the chart?
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

I've been blaming you, threatening you, behaving like a churl to you, when he's the greatest sinner.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

"I lost him in the fight near Newport, where Lord Derby was worsted by Lilburn and Colonel James.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

Order is restored; and the four mighty ones that warred within to man’s distraction, led captive by Los, are content each to perform his proper function, and so to prevent any further disturbance of the peace.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner