No rain fell upon the earth for many weeks, till nature drooped and withered beneath one bright blaze of sunlight; and the ague and fever in the woods, and the cholera in the large towns and cities, spread death and sickness through the country.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[2666] and put case (saith he) in one that walks upon a plank, if it lie on the ground, he can safely do it: but if the same plank be laid over some deep water, instead of a bridge, he is vehemently moved, and 'tis nothing but his imagination, forma cadendi impressa , to which his other members and faculties obey.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A minute later Sonia, too, came in with the candle, set down the candlestick and, completely disconcerted, stood before him inexpressibly agitated and apparently frightened by his unexpected visit.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What the Hercules is to the eye in corporeal strength, Don Juan is to the mind in strength of character.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

pl. deaf, C3; see Deef .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

hayang v 1 [A; c1P] put s.t. convex down with the convex side down.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Madame Wolff had in vain endeavored to avoid using the great hall at all, for the foolish old legend of the sealed chamber aroused a certain superstitious dread in her heart, and she rarely if ever entered the hall herself.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

But the moral of the chapter is plainly what we have shown it to be, that a man cannot stifle doubt and debate about his own heart or treatment of God; whatever else he thinks about and judges, he cannot help judging himself.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 1 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

When she happened to glance towards him, which, it must be confessed, she did much oftener than she intended (particularly when she came to the finest passage of her song), she never failed to find his eyes fixed on her face with a gaze of involuntary admiration, that, when they met, was instantly changed to an averted look of indifference.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

Then Madame Permon, as tenderly as if she had been the girl's mother, led her aside; and finding a remote seat in a corner, she drew the child into her lap.
— from The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French by Eugénie Foa

"I have done, sir," said George Fairfax gravely, and, with a bow and a somewhat cynical smile, departed.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

If he could successfully disable the sloop before the arrival of the frigate, he would ensure the escape of the captured Mellish, for the sloop would be in no condition to pursue, and the frigate could not safely leave her convoy.
— from For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady

But why is it that the Cockney should drop his H?
— from The Last Entry by William Clark Russell