[Exeunt LUCIFER and BELZEBUB.] Come, Mephistophilis.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

The advantages of this little work are twofold—that it excites laughter, and by counsel guides the life of man .
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

52 Causles mine enemy, Like a bird chac'd me.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

As if he should say, seeing I have brought myself into such a miserable condition, that God will not regard me, that my exceeding loud and bitter cries will not be heard for myself; seeing I must not be admitted to have so much as one drop of cold water, nor the least help from the poorest saints.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Magan acted his part so plausibly that on the very night Lord Edward lay a bleeding captive in Newgate, he was raised by the votes of United Irishmen to a still higher post in the organisation.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

There are numbers of dogs in Gallatin that can trace their ancestry through nearly every breed of dog that ever lived, and Brownlee can look at any one of them and immediately guess at its formula—one part Spitz, three parts greyhound, two parts collie, and so on.
— from That Pup by Ellis Parker Butler

Then we made scrambled egg and porridge, and baked some custard in the oven, and it was just exactly like a big custard in the big cups at home.
— from Five Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

To all of those who are willing to take a small portion of their time each day for a few weeks in learning just what it takes to constitute a genuine bill, there need be no necessity of ever losing anything by counterfeiters, as it is impossible for them to make bills which will in any way approach the beauty and exactness of the genuine ones.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

There was one of Carmelo's own band, as bold and handsome a cut-throat as ever lived—he was mad for Teresa—he followed her everywhere like a beaten cur.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

It turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt; it made Esau weep with an exceeding loud and bitter cry; it made Judas hang himself: yea, and it will make thee curse the day in which thou wast born, if thou miss of the kingdom, as thou wilt certainly do, if this be thy course.
— from The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven With Directions How to Run So as to Obtain by John Bunyan

"There are the Sweet Springs, rising out of the earth like a boiling caldron, with brilliant little balloons of gas ever ascending to the top of the water, and bursting in the sunbeams.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers