Enter LORD CHANCELLOR, places himself at the upper end of the table on the left band, a seat being left void above him, as for Canterbury's seat.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now being oppressed by such evil usage, and afflicted with such greate Torments and violent Entertainment they began to understand that such Men as those had not their Mission from Heaven; and therefore some of them conceal'd their Provisions and others to their Wives and Children in lurking holes, but some, to avoid the obdurate and dreadful temper of such a Nation, sought their Refuge on the craggy tops of Mountains; for the Spaniards did not only entertain them with Cuffs, Blows, and wicked Cudgelling, but laid violent hands also on the Governours of Cities; and
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

[‘ sickerness ’] sīd ample, wide, broad, large, vast , An, B, Gen .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In the London Magazine the following footnote came here, almost certainly by Lamb:— "Violence or injustice certainly none, Mr. Elia.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

E quel frustato celar si credette bassando 'l viso; ma poco li valse, ch'io dissi: <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Then bravest Lakshmaṇ, virtuous youth, The friend of purity and truth, With reverent palm to palm applied Thus to his glorious brother cried: “My arm presaging throbs amain, My troubled heart is sick with pain, And cheerless omens ill portend Where'er my anxious eyes I bend.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Mr. Bounderby looked very hard at the good lady in a side-long way that had an odd sheepishness about it.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Had he been less violent, or more dexterous, he might have succeeded in his supplications to Jos; but the civilian was not a little jealous of the airs of superiority which the Major constantly exhibited towards him, as he fancied (indeed, he had imparted his opinions to Mr. Kirsch, the courier, whose bills Major Dobbin checked on this journey, and who sided with his master), and he began a blustering speech about his competency to defend his own honour, his desire not to have his affairs meddled with, his intention, in fine, to rebel against the Major, when the colloquy—rather a long and stormy one—was put an end to in the simplest way possible, namely, by the arrival of Mrs. Becky, with a porter from the Elephant Hotel in charge of her very meagre baggage.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

From Constantinople to the Black Sea, a distance of twenty miles, the two shores of Asia and Europe, separated by but half a mile of bright blue water, are lined by lovely villages, each with its splendid palace or two, its mosque and minarets, and its hundred small houses buried in trees, each with its small dark cemetery of cypresses and turbaned head-stones, and each with its valley stretching back into the hills, of which every summit and swell is crowned with a fairy kiosk.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Bays, [ laurus vulgaris ].
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

Tail-feathers rose-white with black tips; shoulders, axillars, and belly light vermilion.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Ye matchless scenes, in nature's morning made, While still, in all the exuberance of prime, She poured her wonders, lavishly sublime, Nor yet had learned to stoop, with humbler care, From grand to soft, from wonderful to fair;— Say, were your towering hills, your boundless floods, Your rich savannas and majestic woods, Where bards should meditate and heroes rove, And woman charm, and man deserve her love,— Oh say, was world so bright, but born to grace Its own half-organized, half-minded race[4] Of weak barbarians, swarming o'er its breast, Like vermin gendered on the lion's crest?
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

"Well," says Ben, looking very solemn; "there's some that get lost on land too.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

As new techniques with footmen came into being, the footmen became the core of the army and the knightly abilities of the feudal tenants-in-chief became less valuable.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

The party was good, the game abundant, but ill-cooked, the beef bad, the mutton by no means superior, the poultry remarkably good, and the venison of the highest 61 flavour, but without fat; this, however, was supplied by its being larded very thickly—all sorts of fruits in great perfection, pines excepted, of which there are not many at the Cape.
— from The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches by Réné Hansard

I find, however, that I am entering upon subjects in which I am but little versed, and digressing from my narrative.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig