There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each having entered by its own avenue: as light, and all colours and forms of bodies by the eyes; by the ears all sorts of sounds; all smells by the avenue of the nostrils; all tastes by the mouth; and by the sensation of the whole body, what is hard or soft; hot or cold; or rugged; heavy or light; either outwardly or inwardly to the body.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It was frightfully cold after the warm room; the square was bleak and endless; the many façades were too far off to keep the wind away; the pavement was very cold under her right foot; that was it; the broken sole was the worry that had been trying to come up; she could walk with it; it would not matter if the weather kept dry ... an upright gait, hurrying quickly away across the moonlit sheen; just the one she had summoned up anger and courage to challenge was not so bad as the others ...
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

He warns mothers not to allow the clothing to constrict the growing breasts of their daughters, and urges general hygiene as the best method to develop them.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

"We move forward down and up gorges hundreds of feet deep, amongst rocky masses where the poor horses have to clamber as best they can [Pg 113] amid sharp points and deep crevices, running the constant risk of a broken leg.
— from Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

As the barbarity of the buccaneers, and the artful use the ecclesiastics had made of it, had filled the natives of those countries with the most terrible ideas of the English cruelty, we always found our prisoners at their first coming on board us, to be extremely dejected and under great horror and anxiety.
— from Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Richard Walter

The starost has displayed an unexampled generosity; he has made us all the most beautiful presents.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

What could she mean, when she was getting better every day, and Uncle Geoffrey hoped she might be downstairs by Christmas Day? "Is it possible you do not know, Esther?"
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

On Tuesday morning Lee returned with his men toward Chancellorsville, and during the whole day was busily engaged in preparation for a decisive attack upon General Hooker on the next morning.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

We move forward down and up gorges hundreds of feet deep, amongst rocky masses, where the poor horses had to clamber as best they could amid sharp points and deep crevices, running the constant risk of a broken leg.
— from England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming