She never had seen a man so beautiful or so clever: such a figure on horseback: such a dancer: such a hero in general.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

La Porte du Theil places the scene at Naples because of the fact the city in which our heroes met Agamemnon must have been of some considerable size because neither Encolpius nor Asclytos could find their way back to their inn, when once they had left it, because both were tired out from tramping around in search of it and because Giton had been so impressed with this danger that he took the precaution to mark the pillars with chalk in order that they might not be lost a second time.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

I had a pretty dinner for them, viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowl of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy [Tansy (tanacetum), a herb from which puddings were made.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Sir William Darell, knight, the king’s banner-bearer of Scotland, challenged Sir Percie Courtney, knight, the king’s banner-bearer of England; and when they had run certain courses, gave over without conclusion of victory.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

barred , ob + sera , cf. sĕro = join.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It was like peering up through the clean-picked ribs and bones of some colossal skeleton.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Then would I vent my anguish in loud exclamations and passionate complaints; and then again my strength failing me, silent and hopeless I would sit me down upon the base of St. Clare's Statue, fold my arms, and abandon myself to sullen despair.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

"It is not for nothing that he has been out so constantly shooting sea-fowl about Torungen."
— from The Pilot and his Wife by Jonas Lie

Nothing else hath occurred save the arrival at the castle of a man who must indeed be of some consequence, seeing that he was accompanied by an escort of two men-at-arms."
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

So the boy on skates can skim safely across thin ice which would not bear his weight for an instant if he tried to stand upon it.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Kilpatrick had already felt the fort, and had gone farther down the coast to Kilkenny Bluff, or St. Catharine's Sound, where, on the same day, he had communication with a vessel belonging to the blockading fleet; but, at the time, I was not aware of this fact, and trusted entirely to General Hazen and his division of infantry, the Second of the Fifteenth Corps, the same old division which I had commanded at Shiloh and Vicksburg, in which I felt a special pride and confidence.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

She was seized with internal inflammation ten days ago; Tabby's lame leg has broken out, she cannot stand or walk.
— from Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

Until a day came--after not many days--when with a face sad from the sight of bitter grief that he could understand, the sense of his absolute helplessness before the mystery of this man's nature made the doctor feel inclined to throw pity to the winds and fall back on sheer common sense.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel