Sati was not, however, compulsory among them, and, if a widow lived at all times a perfectly chaste and religious life, she was honoured equally with [ 196 ] such as performed the rite.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Allí todo es bondad, honradez; allí no se conocen la mentira y la farsa como en nuestras grandes ciudades; allí renacen las santas inclinaciones que el bullicio de la moderna vida ahoga; allí 20 despierta la dormida fe, y se siente vivo
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The simples are most of them appropriated to the heart, and in truth the composition greatly nourishes and strengthens such as are in consumptions, and restores lost strength, either by fevers or other sickness: It is a sovereign remedy for hectic fevers, and Marasmos, which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

** * This is the same which is called, according to locality, climate, and races, Lombard, Saxon, or Byzantine.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And so she used to sit propped up in a great arm-chair, with her beautiful complexion and rosy lips, staring at me—or not so much at me, I think, as at nothing—while I busily stitched away and told her every one of my secrets.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Tuesday next after Palm Sunday 1431, all the prisoners of Ludgate were removed into Newgate by Walter Chartesey, and Robert Large, sheriffs of [36] London; and on the 13th of April the same sheriffs (through the false suggestion of John Kingesell, jailor of Newgate) set from thence eighteen persons free men, and these were let to the compters, pinioned as if they had been felons; but on the sixteenth of June, Ludgate was again appointed for free men, prisoners for debt; and the same day the said free men entered by ordinance of the mayor, aldermen, and commons, and by them Henry Deane, tailor, was made keeper of Ludgate prison.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In the instant, as I am a living man, I saw, as my eyes were turned into the darkness of the tomb, a beautiful woman, with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

We would leave for the consideration of those who shall then occupy our places, some proof that we hold the blessings transmitted from our fathers in just estimation; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government, and of civil and religious liberty; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing which may enlarge the understandings and improve the hearts of men.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

The house is a plain brick structure with gable ends, and the tower (of the same material) covers a rather large square.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by George Worley

From this diverge numerous branches, some to the bottom of the excavations in progress, others to embankments down which is tipped out the “spoil,” as the dug out material is called; while others connecting with brickfields and quarries, or with existing canals and railway lines, serve to bring supplies of the materials used in the constructions.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Such models of moral excellence, such apostles of civil and religious liberty, such shades of the illustrious dead looking down upon their descendants with approbation or reproof, according as they follow or depart from the good way, constitute a censorship inferior only to the eye of God; and to ridicule them is a national suicide.
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

He was tall and slender, with a pink complexion and rather long snow-white hair and beard.
— from The Hills of Refuge: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

We have now to consider a rather less simple case, but one a great deal more interesting.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Various

Do as you are bid and come away," returned Leam, slightly relaxing her grasp.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

Just so, ever since the good man had lived at Mrs. Scudder’s, and had the gentle Mary for his catechumen, a richer life seemed to have coloured his thoughts,—his mind seemed to work with a pleasure never felt before.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe