p. 26,) and a curious description of those of Zingis, (Vie de Gengiscan, l. i. c. 6, l. iv.
— 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

Rosario veía sus ojos verdes, como dos grandes linternas de convexos cristales.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Whenever you do, George, let us know."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Take of the best Turbith an ounce, Diagridium, Ginger, of each half an ounce, Cinnamon, Cloves, of each two drams, Galanga, long Pepper, Mace, of each one dram, beat them into powder, and with eight ounces and five drams of white sugar dissolved in Succory Water, it may be made into an electuary.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth hervor —Only out of perfected faculty does grace look forth.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

" Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow, and with pallid face and tear-stained eyes, looked at him as he walked over to the deal painting-table that was set beneath the high curtained window.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

One plant had "deeply gashed leaves."
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

From whence they had this horrible custome, trulie I cannot tell, but that it was common to most nations, not onlie to consume their strangers, captiues, &c; but also their owne children with fire, in such maner of sacrifice: beside the text of the Bible, the prophane histories doo generallie leaue it euident, as a thing either of custome or of particular necessitie, of which later Virgil saith; Sanguine placastis ventos & virgine cæsa, &c.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Leaves dark green, lustrous, alternate, lanceolate, entire; short petioles.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Hockin, T. S., Jesus 12 11 1 ⁄ 2 Shafto, C. D., Jesus (stroke) 12 1 1 ⁄ 2 Davis, G. L., Clare (cox.)
— from Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate

To the eye of the poetic and musical German girl the dead volcano, with its green base and frozen rivers and dark, glimmering lines of carbon, seemed like a fairy tale, a celestial vision, an ascent to some city of crystal and pearl in the sky.
— from The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth

Dame Garvin looked upon her: "It is Mary's self I see!" "Dear heart!"
— from Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Le stelle, ch’ appresso Baiero, restano informi, sono, da noi segnate di giallo; le Nuove colorite di minio; le osservate dal P. Antelmo di verde, quelle dell’ Hallei di pavonazzo, l’altre di Hevelio di lacca; le corrette da Baiero di Cinabro, e l’osservazioni fatte dagli altri autori si distinguono nel nostro Epitome Cosmografico, stampato in Venetia nel 1693.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

," said the little fellow, solemnly, "sho' as I is a living nigger, I seed dat ghost last night."
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely