Take care this be remedied, son Vulcan; rouse up your drowsy Cyclopes, Asteropes, Brontes, Arges, Polyphemus, Steropes, Pyracmon, and so forth, set them at work, and make them drink as they ought.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Phidias, on the other hand, could not turn wax into ivory and gold, nor yet gold into wax: for each of these remains as it was at the commencement, and becomes a perfect statue Pg 131 Greek text simply by being clothed externally in a form and artificial shape.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Impossible to place our Cathedral in that other family of lofty, aerial churches, rich in painted windows and sculpture; pointed in form, bold in attitude; communal and bourgeois as political symbols; free, capricious, lawless, as a work of art; second transformation of architecture, no longer hieroglyphic, immovable and sacerdotal, but artistic, progressive, and popular, which begins at the return from the crusades, and ends with Louis IX.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Eumolpus was speaking privately with Bargates, when a crier attended by a public slave entered the inn, accompanied by a medium-sized crowd of outsiders.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

" After these statements it will surprise no one that this author considers illness a kind of crime, and blames a patient, sixty years of age, suffering with the scurvy, for taking to his bed!
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Each would stagger out into the darkness, and make her way to the corner, where they met; or if the others had already gone, would get into a car, and begin a painful struggle to keep awake.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

They were careful also to conceal and bury all polluting substances, so as not ‘to insult the rays of the god
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I'll bury these curiosities right yer, with this chain and ball, and put some old bricks around' em outen the chimney they come from."
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

The singing master fumbled his woolly wristbands, thrust his hands deep into pockets of coat and breeches, and peered searchingly about the little stand where, it was plain to see, was nothing but the songbook which he had dropped in his confusion.
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

From this, great and enlightened one, you will readily perceive how misleading an impression might be carried away by a person scrupulously-intentioned but not continually looking both ways, when placed among a people endowed with the uneasy suspicion of the barbarian and struggling to assert a doubtful refinement.
— from The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah

[7] In proof of the first of these claims he alleges the fact that, whereas England had once been, and Naples was at that moment dependent upon the Church, and Bohemia and Poland sustained similar relations to the Empire, France had always been a sovereign state.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

" The bugles were sounding the "assembly" every where, and the men, slapping and scratching as if they would tear their flesh and their clothes off, were hastily swallowing their last mouthfuls of hot coffee and bread and pork, snatching up their guns and blankets and falling in.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

There were no destructive wars, except on the frontiers; all classes were secure, the face of nature was cultivated and beautiful, and poets sung the praises of civilization such as never existed but in isolated cities and countries.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Her face clouded, but the clouds broke immediately, chased away by a plaintive smile.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum