But in a genealogy recorded by later writers, he is likewise the adopted son of Asterius, as descendant of Dorus, the son of Helen, and is thus connected with a colony said to have been led into Creta by Tentamus, or Tectamus, son of Dorus, who is related either to have crossed over from Thessaly, or to have embarked at Malea after having led his followers by land into Laconia.
— from The Iliad by Homer

To explain the manner of its progress, let A B represent a line drawn across the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line c d represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the attracting end, the island being over C : let the stone be placed in position c d , with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D .
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Her delicate neck rubbed against his cloth doublet with its rough embroideries.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

[44] Charles Robinson, S. N. Wood, Samuel C. Pomeroy, E. G. Ross, Sidney Clark, S. G. Crawford, Kansas; James W. Nye, Nevada; William Loughridge, Iowa; Robert Collyer, Illinois; George W. Julian, H. D. Washburn, Indiana; R. E. Trowbridge, John F. Driggs, Michigan; Benjamin F. Wade, Ohio; J. W. Broomall, William D. Kelley, Pennsylvania; Henry Ward Beecher, Gerrit Smith, George William Curtis, New York; Dudley S. Gregory, George Polk, John G. Foster, James L. Hayes, Z. H. Pangborn, New Jersey; Wm.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

64 I reserve for another place the full discussion of this interesting subject, which here would have led me too far; but it must be noted, in passing, that this vulgar Purism, which rejects truth, not because it is vicious, but because it is humble, and consists not in choosing what is good, but in disguising what is rough, extends itself into every species of art.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

My head has never fully recovered that blow at Bombay, and I think the hours during which I remained exposed to the sun's rays, by the side of that awful image, must have affected it.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

In order that he might ascertain whether the attractions of this damsel were in reality equal to their reputation, and also that he might hasten matters in case he should be satisfied on this point, Authari impersonated his own ambassador and visited the court of Garibald in this guise.
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

The saturated oil solution is subjected to distillation, which is readily effected in Heyl's apparatus, Fig.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

German writers have often explained that it is impossible to classify the new State in any known category, and in following their attempts to find the technical definition for the authority on which it rests, one is led almost to doubt whether it really exists at all.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

Youth, in the old days, when it rebelled, escaped to romantic climes or adventurous experience from a world which some one else had made for it.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

Would God forbid us to do what is right, Even for his sake?
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald