Those who offer me opposition will I crush even like vipers,” I said gallantly, and as she rose with slow grace to her feet, I clasped her in fond embrace.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

In the best of summer it is less to be indulged in than in spring and autumn; because the process of concoction and assimilation is effected less vigorously in summer than in the other seasons, and consequently the losses sustained are not so easily recovered.
— from Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport

Just as in water, every little vortex is surrounded by a circular wave, visible by reflection.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

Human banks and labour-banks know thee not; or know thee after generations and centuries have passed away, and thou art clean gone from 'rewarding,'—all manner of bank-drafts, shoptills, and Downing-street Exchequers lying very invisible, so far from thee!
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

La chose réüssit comme il l'avoit pensé; car l'Ogre s'étant éveillé sur le minuit, eut regret d'avoir differé au lendemain ce qu'il pouvoit executer la veille, il se jetta donc brusquement hors du lit, & prenant son grand Couteau, allons voir, dit il, comment se portent nos petits drolles, n'en faisons pas à deux fois; il monta donc à tâtons à la Chambre de ses filles & s'approcha du lit où étoient les petits garçons, qui dormoient tous excepté le petit Pouçet, qui eut bien peur lors qu'il sentit la main de l'Ogre qui luy tastoit la teste, comme il avoit tasté celle de tous ses freres.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

She was a high-spirited, daring creature, a little flashing firefly of a child, eagerly seeking for adventure, that might have brought upon her frequent punishment were it not that her parents held exceedingly liberal views in such matters.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

Perianthium inferius (exterius), bivalvis, neuter; valvula exterior septemnervis, exteriori glumae similis textura forma et longitudine; valvula interior (superior)
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

Cf. Collier's Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature: Vol I. s.n.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 2 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

Human banks and labour-banks know thee not; or know thee after generations and centuries have passed away, and thou art clean gone from 'rewarding,'—all manner of bank-drafts, shop-tills, and Downing-street Exchequers lying very invisible, so far from thee!
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle