No cut to unkindness, as the saying is, a frown and hard speech, ill respect, a browbeating, or bad look, especially to courtiers, or such as attend upon great persons, is present death: Ingenium vultu statque caditque suo , they ebb and flow with their masters' favours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It has been observed, by long experience, that late springs produce the greatest plenty.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

and I beseech our blessed Lord ever to preserve her in all virtue and good living to his pleasure, and to reward your mastership with heaven at your ending, for your good disposition to herwards in good exhortations giving.
— from Medieval People by Eileen Power

Should it be apprehended that the air contained in the oil may be disengaged, and disturb the vacuum, you may substitute in its stead mercury or water, which can be deprived of air either by boiling or by long exposure to the action of a vacuum.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini

And then that powerful yet adorable Eve, that Eve with the sturdy flanks fit for the bearing of humanity, that Eve with the proud, tender grace of a woman bent on being loved even to perdition, that Eve embodying the whole of woman with her fecundity, her seductiveness, her empire!
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

He died in the second year of his presidency, suddenly, and unexpectedly, of violent fever, brought on by long exposure to the burning heat of a fourth of July sun—noted as the warmest of the season.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

If he were a reel hero, either caveman or domesticated, he’d have conquered her by brawn or brain long ere this pitiable pass.
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

A band of white limestone, and two bands of black lava encircle the even masonry of pink lava.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch