The only immoral thing with which I could ever charge our excellent sovereign is, that he was born in June, and has thus furnished his fashionable subjects with a loyal pretense for encountering 'the sin and sea-coal of London,' to borrow Will Honeycomb's phrase, in the finest month of the twelve.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

She had considerable charm of manner, and there was a quite unexpected fascination about her smile—unexpected, because, when in repose, her thin lips lay folded together in a straight and somewhat forbidding line, whereas the moment they relaxed into a smile they assumed the most delightful curves, and two little lines, which should have been dimples but were not, cleft each cheek on either side of the mouth.
— from The House of Dreams-Come-True by Margaret Pedler

A compound enema composed of Epsom salts ℥j, glycerin ℥j, turpentine ℥iss, water ℥viij, injected high in the bowel through a rectal tube, may be effective.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

It has a superb ebony table in the middle, with a chair massive enough for a throne for the chairman, and six grand, carved ebony chairs on either side.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

No wonder monasteries and convents flourished, for where else was there any culture, enlightenment, civilization, or even safety to life and limb?
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale