It troubles some to be unburied, or so: ———non te optima mater Condet humi, patriove onerabit membra sepulchro; Alitibus linguere feris, et gurgite mersum Unda feret, piscesque impasti vulnera lambent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Full many a post have those broad shoulders worn, From every great man's gate repulsed with scorn: To no brave prize aspired the worthless swain, 'Twas
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Converse with no other 233 person ever gave me such a wealth of suggestive ideas on so many different subjects.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

They do not make the whole three-sided pyramidal base of any one cell at the same time, but only the one rhombic plate which stands on the extreme growing margin, or the two plates, as the case may be; and they never complete the upper edges of the rhombic plates, until the hexagonal walls are commenced.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The smile in his eyes gleamed more brightly than ever.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

That genius and taste, and toil and cost, had not thus expended their unrivalled powers, and lavished their munificent resources, in erecting gothic magazines of gunpowder, and saxon sheds for the accommodation of atheistic fabricators of revolutionary cannon balls.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

It had been so long since Mary had had any clothes except garments made over and handed down, that the wealth of choice offered her was almost overpowering.
— from The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

And all my hope is no where but in Thy exceeding great mercy.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It is very active and crawls about with an easy, graceful motion.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

Elizabeth gave much and consuming thought to the issue brought about by the fact that her husband, still living in the house with her, had no idea that she could be in love with another man, even though her husband no longer loved her.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

Government #_Long-form name: Principality of Liechtenstein _#_Type: hereditary constitutional monarchy _#_Capital: Vaduz _#_Administrative divisions: 11 communes (gemeinden, singular—gemeinde); Balzers, Eschen, Gamprin, Mauren, Planken, Ruggell, Schaan, Schellenberg, Triesen, Triesenberg, Vaduz _#_Independence: 23 January 1719, Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein established _#_Constitution: 5 October 1921 _#_Legal system: local civil and penal codes; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations _#_National holiday:
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Among others, Gail very sapiently thinks that the poet uses the epithet [Greek: melainae], because black earth absorbs moisture more quickly than any other; and accordingly he indulges us with an experimental disquisition on the subject.—See Gail's Notes.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

At times he advanced to laws of even greater moment, and corresponding intricacy.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter