The knot is black, long, and somewhat woody, abiding many years, and shooting afresh every Spring; which root, though small, hath a reasonable good scent.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Then persons of worth, even if only mortal men, must not be represented as overcome by laughter, and still less must such a representation of the gods be allowed.
— from The Republic by Plato

I have had infinite trouble both by land and sea already, so let this go with the rest.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

It appeared to me at first as if I saw over all the Throndhjem country, and then over all Norway; and the longer this vision was before my eyes the farther, methought, I saw, until I looked over the whole wide world, both land and sea.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On different senses different objects strike; Hence different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame; And hence once master passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Most of its inflections had been lost, and still others have been discarded since.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

3 The system of Roman tactics, the discipline and order of the troops, and the military operations by land and sea, are explained in the third of these didactic collections, which may be ascribed to Constantine or his father Leo.
— 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

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

you use this dalliance to excuse Your breach of promise to the Porpentine; I should have chid you for not bringing it, But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

When the housekeeper has done all she can to make the meal suitable and appetizing, each member of the family should do his or her share to bring life and sunshine into the conversation.
— from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three by Maria Parloa

Unmarried, and with many friends, and many enemies, he kept his body like a sword-blade, and his soul always at white heat.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The ship had not been long at shore, when Saib, and the rest of the blacks, were all put in a large slave cart that took them to the place where they were to be sold.
— from The Book of One Syllable by Esther Bakewell

They have also a few from the mineral kingdom, such as stones, saltpetre, borax, lead, antimony, sulphate of copper, table salt, sulphate of magnesia, and rarely mercury.
— from Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c. by N. A. (Noah A.) McDonald

The head presents in the passage and may even protrude from the vulva during an active labor pain, but it starts back like a spring when the straining ceases.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

" "Uncle Prosper doesn't like to be laughed at," said Molly.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

With the aid of this telescope sunken wrecks may be examined from ship-board, obstacles to navigation and torpedoes may be located, and so forth.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

Hume stepped out on to a broad ledge and stood in a maze, looking without seeing anything, until the rush of an eagle before his face made him recoil and restored his faculties.
— from The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville

Our theme is a city—a great Southern importing, exporting, and manufacturing city, to be located at some point or port on the coast of the Carolinas, Georgia or Virginia, where we can carry on active commerce, buy, sell, fabricate, receive the profits which accrue from the exchange of our own commodities, open facilities for direct communication with foreign countries, and establish all those collateral sources of wealth, utility, and adornment, which are the usual concomitants of a metropolis, and which add so very materially to the interest and importance of a nation.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

Beatrix gave a big laugh and stood up to him with her chin tilted, her eyes dancing and a look of triumph all over her lovely face.
— from Scandal: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton