The Analytical, who objects as a matter of principle to everything that occurs on the premises, necessarily objects to the match; but his consent has been dispensed with, and a spring-van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door, in order that to-morrow's feast may be crowned with flowers.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!—/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother.
— 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.

A humorous correspondent says that Tennyson is decidedly partial to slang, and instances amongst other proofs a passage from the laureate’s famous Locksley Hall :— “Many a night, from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion SLOPING slowly to the west.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And because in that work there are written his name and the date in letters of gold, craftsmen who will consider at what time Giotto, with no glimmer of the good manner, gave a beginning to the good method of drawing and of colouring, will be forced to hold him in the highest veneration.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

For three days I lived off guavas, ohia -apples, and bananas, all of which grew wild in the jungle.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

All nature was rejoicing in the advent of spring and donning its livery of green.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

Write it down in letters of gold, that there was one man, at least, at those times, who was a man by nature, and carried a man's heart in his bosom.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

They could hardly dance barefoot round a maypole in Hampstead, or stage-manage the yearly Hiring-Fair for the sake of the “Daily Speculum” photographer (as they had done in Ludlow), or group themselves picturesquely about the feet of the oldest inhabitant while that shocking old reprobate with the splendid head recited (at five shillings an hour) the stories of old, unhappy, far-off things he had learned by heart from the booklets they had printed at the Village Press.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

George Ingram was once heard to say that eleven letters covered a large part of his religion, and that he wished he could write across the blue dome in letters of gold the word "Helpfulness."
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

The box was finely decorated, and the Inscription neatly done in Letters of Gold.
— from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson