The ladies said of him that he was attentive and clever at diagnosing diseases, especially those of women and children.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His haughty helmet, horrid all with gold, Both glorious brightness and great terror bred, For all the crest a dragon did enfold With greedy paws.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Don César de Bazan , drame en cinq actes, de Dumanoir et d'Ennery (1844).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

A Minos mi porto`; e quelli attorse otto volte la coda al dosso duro; e poi che per gran rabbia la si morse, disse: "Questi e` d'i rei del foco furo"; per ch'io la` dove vedi son perduto, e si` vestito, andando, mi rancuro>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

His haughtie helmet, horrid all with gold, Both glorious brightnesse, and great terrour bred; For all the crest a Dragon ° did enfold With greedie pawes, and over all did spred 270 His golden wings: his dreadfull hideous hed Close couched on the bever, seem'd to throw From flaming mouth bright sparkles fierie red, That suddeine horror to faint harts did show, And scaly tayle was stretcht adowne his backe full low.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

For as Forrestus and Hollerius contend, if [2647] they be black, it proceeds from abundance of natural melancholy; if it proceed from cares, agony, discontents, diet, exercise, &c., they may be as well of any other colour: red, yellow, pale, as black, and yet their whole blood corrupt: praerubri colore saepe sunt tales, saepe flavi , (saith [2648] Montaltus cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Why this intense cold and dreadful desolation exists so much farther from the pole in the southern than in the northern hemisphere, I need hardly explain to you; for you will recall that in the north the continents are so broad as to form almost an unbroken wall about the narrow polar sea, confining its cold waters, warming the air by wide radiation, and guiding the heated flood of the Gulf Stream straight into the northern sea.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

Stimulants are drugs that relieve mild depression, increase energy and activity, and include cocaine (coke, snow, crack), amphetamines (Desoxyn, Dexedrine), ephedrine, ecstasy (clarity, essence, doctor, Adam), phenmetrazine (Preludin), methylphenidate (Ritalin), and others (Cylert, Sanorex, Tenuate).
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Is hell to see poor frames, Wan, leathery cheeks, and dull, despairing eyes, From whence a low-flamed madness ebbing out, [Pg 96] Goes slowly deathward through the eerie hours, To hear forever pitiless, icy winds Feel in the shivering canvas of the tent, With idle, brute curiosity nature hath, While out around, one universe of death, Stretches the loveless, hearthless arctic night?
— from Beyond the Hills of Dream by Wilfred Campbell

“The crew of a hydroairplane can see the submarine at a greater depth under water than can a destroyer,” Dave explained, “but owing to the height at which they are obliged to observe they cannot drop their bombs as accurately.”
— from Dave Darrin and the German Submarines Or, Making a Clean-up of the Hun Sea Monsters by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

No man who has studied the skull as carefully as Dürer did, ever could engrave a face beautifully, for the perception of the bones continually thrusts itself upon him in wrong places, and in trying to conquer or modify it, he distorts the flesh.
— from The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872 by John Ruskin

Is hell to see poor frames, Wan, leathery cheeks, and dull, despairing eyes, From whence a low-flamed madness ebbing out, Goes slowly deathward, through the eerie hours, To hear forever pitiless, icy winds Feel in the shivering canvas of the tent, With idle, brute curiosity nature hath, While out around, one universe of death, Stretches the loveless, hearthless arctic night?
— from The Dread Voyage: Poems by Wilfred Campbell

Nec cuiquam aut delectationis desiderio erudita feminea aut musicæ artis studio liceat habere mancipia.” —
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky