They shall be decked in a robe all of white, and there shall be no crying or lamentation over them; but a chorus of fifteen maidens, and another of boys, shall stand around the bier on either side, hymning the praises of the departed priests in alternate responses, declaring their blessedness in song all day long; and at dawn a hundred of the youths who practise gymnastic exercises, and whom the relations of the departed shall choose, shall carry the bier to the sepulchre, the young men marching first, dressed in the garb of warriors—the cavalry with their horses, the heavy-armed with their arms, and the others in like manner.
— from Laws by Plato

Why does she come so close?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

MR. WELLER THE ELDER DELIVERS SOME CRITICAL SENTIMENTS CHAPTER XXXIV.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Ending our list with the fall-drying grass, the Autumn days themselves, Sweet days; so cool, so calm, so bright, (yet not so cool either, about noon)—the horse-mint, the wild carrot, the mullein, and the bumble-bee.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I should explain to you, dear friends, the meaning of these names, for you might be inclined to think that Doctor Somewhat Cloudy, Sir Clear-as-Amber; and Lord Heart-of-Horn might indicate that they were more or less muddled in their intellects.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

, 166 De Mattia Bros., 686 de Maupassant, Guy, 565 de Mere, Mlle., 91 de Monteith, Fulbert, q. , 22 de Musset, Alfred, 98 , 102 , 565 ; q. , 103 de Noailles, Duke, 567 de Nointel, 542 De Quincey, Thomas, q. , 562 de Pompadour, ill. , 588 , 600 de Rabutin-Chantal, Marie, 91 de Sacy, Baron Antoine Isaac Silvestre, 17 ; q. , 2 , 663 De Saluberrimá Cahue seu Café , etc., Nairon, 16 de Santais, Edward Loysel, pat.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

De Saluberrimá Cahue seu Café nuncupata Discursus.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Picots .—The edges of most crochet work are ornamented with picots, or small points of different shapes, called severally close picots, chain picots and lace picots.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Take of the Roots of Hound’s-tongue dried, white Henbane seed, Opium prepared, of each half an ounce, Myrrh six drams, Olibanum five drams, Saffron, Castoreum, Styrax, Calamitis, of each one dram and an half, with Syrup of Stœchas, make it into a mass.
— 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

They were so squalid, so dark, so comfortless, so constantly pressing upon the senses foulness, pain, and inconvenience, that it was only by being drugged with gin and opium that their miserable inhabitants could find heart to drag on life from day to day.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I will quarrel with neither Duke nor drink, so called,” said Crawford, “provided always that both be sound.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

Croix Lotbinière Q J. Hamel St. Cuthbert Berthier Q P. Tellier St. Cyriac Kenogami Chicoutimi Q Jean Dèschene St. Cyrille St Cyrille L’Islet Q J. B. Cloutier St. Damase St. Damase St. Hyacinthe Q P. H. Petit St. Damien de Brandon Brandon Berthier Q J. A. Ecrement St. David’s
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

In delivering this paper to Dr. Sheldon, Charles solemnly conjured him to remind him of his contract, should he hereafter ever find him in a condition to perform any one of the articles which it contained.
— from Royalty in All Ages The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

The Sabbath at Mohonk realizes old George Herbert's description of the "Sweet day so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky;" Not a boat is loosened from its wharf on the lake; not a carriage is geared up for a pleasure drive, and many a guest has learned how a Sabbath spent without the introduction of either business cares or frivolities may be a joyous refreshment to both body and soul.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

A gentleman, however, who at that time held the office of Provost of Paris (2) from the King, seeing that his master was young, of an age to desire such company, so cleverly contrived matters with all four of the damsels that each, thinking herself intended for the King, agreed to what the aforesaid Provost desired.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre