It was rather small, but well built and convenient; and every thing was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency of which Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Yea, but you infer again, facile consilium damus aliis , we can easily give counsel to others; every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her; si hic esses, aliter sentires ; if you were in our misery, you would find it otherwise, 'tis not so easily performed.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This church is also called St. Edmond Grasse church, because the said grass market came down so low.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Do the earholes go clear through the head to the other side?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They say, “If once all the obstructions of the flesh are eliminated even God can be seen.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Nostra memoria Mahometes Othomannus qui Graeciae imperium subvertit, cum oratorum postulata audiret externarum gentium, cochlearia lignea assidue caelabat, aut aliquid in tabula affingebat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Allowing for the loss of territory and the loss of efficiency, Germany cannot export coal in the near future (and will even be dependent on her Treaty rights to purchase in Upper Silesia), if she is to continue as an industrial nation.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Gallon after gallon of wine and mead disappeared, and everybody got comfortable, then happy, then sparklingly joyous—both sexes,—and by and by pretty noisy.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

A wall of superb rocks stood before us, imposing in its sheer mass: a pile of gigantic stone blocks, an enormous granite cliffside pitted with dark caves but not offering a single gradient we could climb up.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Against this, however, it may be urged that the spiral ornament has a very wide distribution, extending over modern Africa, ancient Egypt, Greece, China, New Guinea, Mexico, and South America, and even to New Zealand and the Asiatic Isles.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

In the Court-House at Lancaster, Tuesday , July 3, 1744, A. M. PRESENT , The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS , Esq; Governor, &c.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

If you will kindly inform me how to remedy this looseness of the kernel I will agree to show you how 100 bushels of corn can be raised on one acre every good corn year.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

"Baby Food for Baby Chicks" Pratts Buttermilk Baby Chick Food raises every good chick.
— from Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Company

And there is here and there a man who, in virtue of extraordinary genius, can infuse new life into worn-out phrases,—a man or two who can for a moment or for an hour, by the very weight and excellence of their thoughts, and because they truly and deeply feel them, arrest the age, and challenge and secure attention, in spite of all the infelicities of an antiquated style and an unearthly delivery.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

There are many marvelous particulars in this last work, which will not easily gain credit with the judicious part of mankind.”
— from The History of Ink, Including Its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography by Thaddeus Davids

It was early morning, I remember, when she laid before me the card of "Basil Bainrothe," with its elaborate German characters, on which was written, in pencil, the addendum, "Will call at ten o'clock;" and, punctual as the hand to the hour, he knocked at the dressing-room door at the appointed time, and was admitted.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

The peeres are in doubt to whome the rule of the land should be committed, why they durst not that Edgar Edeling should vndertake it though he was interested to the same, how William duke of Normandie pretended a right to the crowne, Harold the sonne of earle Goodwine crowned, proclaimed, and consecrated king; his subtill and adulatorie meanes to win the peoples fauour; duke William sendeth ambassadors to Harold to put him in mind of a promise passed to the said duke for his furtherance to obteine the crowne; Harolds negatiue answer to the said ambassage, as also to the marieng of the dukes daughter which was Harolds owne voluntarie motion; he prouideth against the inuasions of the enimie as one doubting afterclaps, a blasing starre of seuen daies continuance.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

See Dirce Anubis, Egyptian god, conductor of the dead to judgment Apennines Aphrodite See Venus, Dione, etc.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch