He is a tolerable specimen of what you will rarely meet with nowadays in its purity, the old English country gentleman; for our men of fortune spend so much of their time in town, and fashion is carried so much into the country, that the strong rich peculiarities of ancient rural life are almost polished away.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Women convicted of immorality are garlanded with erukku ( Calotropis gigantea ) flowers, and made to carry a basket of mud round the village.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

In either case, good fire or good bed, that straw pallet is a gift from heaven.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Quid voveat dulci nutricula maius alumno, Qui sapere et fari possit quae sentiat, et cui Gratia, fama valetudo contingat abunde, Et mundus victus, non deficiente crumena!
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

5. Caesar per explorātores cognōvit Gallōs flūmen trānsīsse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He remembered that the last time he had been engaged in looking around him for the unknown something, he was standing before a cutler’s shop, in the window of which were exposed certain goods for sale.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Or puoi, figliuol, veder la corta buffa d'i ben che son commessi a la fortuna, per che l'umana gente si rabbuffa; che' tutto l'oro ch'e` sotto la luna e che gia` fu, di quest'anime stanche non poterebbe farne posare una>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

If he be safe and sound on the other side, and free from all manner of infirmity; [854] et cui Gratia, forma, valetudo contingat abunde Et mundus victus, non deficiente crumena.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The "Mart," with its entrancing canvas galleries full of tops, work-boxes, every beautiful thing that heart of childhood could desire, its peepshows and merry-go-rounds, its Richardson's marionettes, its Wombwell's menagerie—the thought of it must bring a glow to the heart of any Norfolk native who knew it when I did.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

I see many who are in despair--some even cursing God for all the misery in which we are surrounded, some trying to be brave, some giving up altogether--yet to a number of us has come the Gospel message, brought by the Salvation Army, and I am so glad that I, for one, listened and surrendered my life to this Jesus!
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill

Galusha, Sears E., Corporal G Falling Waters July 14 1863 Gooch, Horace N., Private B Falling Waters July 14 1863 Griffith, Gilbert D., Private B Falling Waters July 14 1863 Gross, Charles H., Private M Haw's Shop May 28 1864 Hanna, John, Private A Haw's Shop May 28 1864 Harding, Ira C., Private D Somerville Ford September 16 1863 Harrison, Henry M., Private E High Bridge April 6 1865 Hart, Horace, Corporal D Hanover June 30 1863 Hawkins, Oscar J., Private K Trevilian Station June 11 1864 Hayes, William O., Private C By Indians September 13 1865 House, Martin, Private M Haw's Shop May 28 1864 Hughson, Franklin, Private K Trevilian Station June 11 1864 Hulet, James H., Private K On Sultana Explosion April 26 1865 Hutchinson, Miles E., Private E Haw's Shop May 28 1864 Ingersoll, George B. W., Sergeant G Shepherdstown August 28 1864 Inman, Elisha, Private K By Guerrillas December 4 1864 Jewell, Leander, Sergeant A Hanovertown
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

Indeed, Dick’s eyes filled with a mist of joy, although his anxiety was intense, for he feared that his brother might still be in a position where the enemy could get further shots at him.
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish

To sum up, the rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Oulton, Wroxham, Barton, and Hickling Broads, are most excellent cruising grounds for small yachts and sailing boats; and as for (p. 223) racing, I really think that 'foreign' boats, if their owners would remember that light displacement and a gigantic spread of canvas are essentials, would have an excellent chance of lowering the pride of the local men.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

Conceive an electric current going from the earth to the sun, or vice versâ ; certain phenomena of the Aurora could only be observed in those parts of the atmosphere which have a determinate position or direction with reference to this current; and consequently these phenomena would be successively visible on the different meridians, as these meridians, by reason of the earth’s rotation, assume the same position to the current.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

What happens when you put a good conductor in place of this resistance if the electricity can get from one wire to the other without passing through this resistance?
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

“One moment more,” laughed Robin, “we must e’en change garments for the nonce.
— from Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden