But now you have sent them tidings from here in return, that in the first place the affairs of the whole world have been turned upside down by me—though indeed I am not conscious of turning anything upside down, either voluntarily or involuntarily; secondly, that I ought to twist ropes from my beard, and that I war against the Chi and that you begin to regret the Kappa .
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He had every colour on his palette, and such skill was in his fingers that he could depict every variety of light and shade.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It still remains an authentic monument to contradict and confound those venal orators, who were too well satisfied with their own situation to discover either vice or misery under the government of a generous sovereign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage; and, after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The costumes of the performers in the various kinds of dramatic exhibitions vary, of course, with the subject-matter of the representation.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If they are lacking in the mind, we find every degree of mental deficiency, every variety of insanity.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

in omnibus, quae ratiōne docentur et viā , O. 116, in everything that is taught with philosophic method .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

vel is sometimes used in the sense of if you will , even , or perhaps , especially before superlatives, or in the sense of for instance : as, huius domus est vel optima Messānae, nōtissima quidem certē , V. 4, 3, this gentleman’s house is perhaps the finest in all Messana, at any rate the best known .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

They were led by an Indian girl, a native Joan of Arc, fired by like enthusiasm to drive from her country the hated foreign oppressors, and to destroy every vestige of their presence.
— from Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

He had moved up a chair and sat devouring every vibration of her lips, every glance of her wondrous eyes—all the little movements of her beautiful body—her dress—the way the stray strands of hair had escaped to her shoulders.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

There's nothing then in safety; no pigeon, no hen, As though they were made but for plunder of men; No goose dare even venture out into the meadow, These gents with their swords would soon whip off its head
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

The injunction to bring her best dress excited visions of polite company.
— from Demos by George Gissing

Lord Castlereagh shut his eyes to the confession involved, that he was leaving the Sicilians to a ruler who, but for such restraint, might be expected to destroy every vestige of public right, and to take the same bloody and unscrupulous revenge upon his subjects which he had taken when Nelson restored him to power in 1799.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

"Naughty maid, she won't come out," Ah! du 'ee! VOICE OF CREMER.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Riveting machines of different kinds bind together the plates of monster boilers with marvellous rapidity; whilst machines for boring, for drilling, for forging, and for 300 doing every variety of smaller work, are to be seen in operation in various parts of the factory.
— from Great Facts A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the Present Century by Frederick C. (Frederick Collier) Bakewell

But his principles of egotism would not be satisfied until he had totally destroyed every vestige of those free institutions which had been acquired by the perils, the blood, the tears of the Revolution, and reduced France, save for the influence of public opinion, to the condition of Constantinople, or of Algiers.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott