The antiscorbutic potency of beer as formerly used was due to its preparation from freshly-germinated grain and its consumption shortly after brewing.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The dances ended, the Spirit Epiloguizes. Spir: To the Ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky: There I suck the liquid ayr 980 All amidst the Gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree: Along the crisped shades and bowres Revels the spruce and jocond Spring, The Graces, and the rosie-boosom'd Howres, Thither all their bounties bring, That there eternal Summer dwels, And West winds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling 990 Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

You've no idea what a sight you'll look before half-past four, what with chalk and ink and kids' dirty feet.—Well, I can send a boy down to mamma's for one."
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Care should also be taken to distinguish between the "battlements of a tower" and a crest issuing from "a castle," as in the case of Harley; "a tower," as in that of Boyce; and upon the "capital of a column," as in the crests of Cowper-Essex and Pease.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they now rose and took their leave.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Chekalinsky smiled and bowed silently, as a sign of acquiescence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Hibernian Banking Company soon after began business within the walls.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

"That the space to be covered should always be in proper relation to the means used for covering it."
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann

The wretched creature soon afterwards breathed her last.
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

Now he courted solitude and became almost morose.
— from By the Barrow River, and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy

Yah! Should like to keep the Old Show a-runnin', too,—leastways, until I can start a bran-new one of my very own.
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 27th, 1894 by Various

The ground was too limited to contain such a body of men even in dense column, and a double wall of battalions.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

His troops entered Savoy, and the brilliant D’Annebault, who commanded in chief, sweeping all before him, had overrun Piedmont and had secured and fortified Turin, before a man had been raised to oppose him.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

Could some arrangement be entered into for us to supply the navy of the Pacific with bread, beef, pork, fish, etc., we would thereby be much improved in our condition.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray