I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

"There are here now," madame Wang rejoined with due respect, "kindred with outside family names, such as Mrs. Hsüeh, née Wang, Pao-ch'ai, and Tai-yü waiting for your commands; but as they are distant relatives, and without official status, they do not venture to arrogate to themselves the right of entering into your presence."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The third detail represents a wheel, completed.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

(The events which have just been briefly related are taken from a work which some of our readers have no doubt read, and which is entitled, “Captain Grant’s children.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The principal aim of this book has been to make known the laws of the United States; if this purpose has been accomplished, the reader is already enabled to judge for himself which are the laws that really tend to maintain the democratic republic, and which endanger its existence.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now Claudius, his uncle, was gone out before, and Marcus Vinicius his sister's husband, as also Valellus of Asia; whom though they had had such a mind to put out of their places, the reverence to their dignity hindered them so to do; then followed Caius, with Paulus Arruntius: and because Caius was now gotten within the palace, he left the direct road, along which those his servants stood that were in waiting, and by which road Claudius had gone out before, Caius turned aside into a private narrow passage, in order to go to the place for bathing, as also in order to take a view of the boys that came out of Asia, who were sent thence, partly to sing hymns in these mysteries which were now celebrated, and partly to dance in the Pyrrhic way of dancing upon the theatres.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He had not thought of such things, and then Axworthy—It was more evident from manner than words that the boy did repent and was greatly overcome, both by his own disgrace and his mother’s distress, wishing earnestly to redeem his character, and declaring, from the bottom of his heart, that he would avoid his former offences.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

No doubt Phinney's [56] record for Central Eastern Indiana (Jay, Delaware, Randolph and Wayne Counties) is an error.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

He began feeling about the dark room, and was recalled to the consequences of his position by the breaking of a large piece of glass.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

And such a speeding grace shone over me, That from their impious worship I reclaim'd The dwellers round about, who with the world Were in delusion lost.
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri