The Examination N o sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Not so (the dame replied), I haste to go To sacred Ocean, and the floods below: Even now our solemn hecatombs attend, And heaven is feasting on the world's green end With righteous Ethiops (uncorrupted train!)
— from The Iliad by Homer

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take of the Juice and Water of Apples of each a pound and an half, the Juice and Water of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces, Senna half a pound, Annis seeds, and sweet Fennel seeds, of each three drams, Epithimum of Crete, two ounces, Agarick, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, Ginger, Mace, of each four scruples, Cinnamon two scruples, Saffron half a dram, infuse the Rhubarb and Cinnamon apart by itself, in white Wine and Juice of Apples, of each two ounces, let all the rest, the Saffron excepted, be steeped in the Waters above mentioned, and the next day put in the juices, which being boiled, scummed, and strained, then with four ounces of white sugar boil it into a Syrup, crushing the saffron in it being tied up in a linen rag, the infusion of the Rhubarb being added at the latter end.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Concerning such cases it can only be said that in England no official sanction has ever been given to such use, and no case exists of any official recognition of the right of an untitled family to bear supporters to their arms save those few exceptional cases governed by specific Royal Warrants.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is a matter of great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected, or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes.” — Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm Whale , 1839.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Morley immediately referring to the newspaper said, “This is what I have just read— “EXTRAORDINARY SPORT AT THE EARL OF MARNEY’S. On Wednesday, in a small cover called the Horns, near Marney Abbey, his grace the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine, the Earl of Marney, Colonel Rippe and Captain Grouse, with only four hours shooting, bagged the extraordinary number of seven hundred and thirty head of game, namely hares three hundred and thirty-nine; pheasants two hundred and twenty-one; partridges thirty-four; rabbits eighty-seven; and the following day upwards of fifty hares, pheasants, &c., (wounded the previous day) were picked up.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Rosie rode with him, but they exchanged not one single hand-squeeze, nor one melting glance, nor did they even play footsie while they were eating lunch in the truck outside a filling station.
— from Sam, This is You by Murray Leinster

It is now evident that those axioms have outlived their day—for no one, either North or South, has complained of our rather ferocious assault on them—much less attempted to reply to or refute our arguments and objections.
— from Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

Far from being actuated by motives of ambition or jealousy, the emperor will envy no other sovereign his greatness, his glory, his legitimate influence; the exclusive assumption of such advantages alone is the source of general apprehensions and the germ of everlasting wars.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

He now sent out a party in search of the Belle , whose long absence caused him great uneasiness; for in her were centred all his hopes of reaching the mouth of the Mississippi by sea, of procuring assistance from San Domingo, or of sending information of their forlorn condition to France, or, perhaps, in his extremest necessity, of saving his colony from a horrid death by famine or at the hands of the savages.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

The foreign count—Count Tarnow, he calls himself—was formerly a tobacconist in Bayswater, and passed under the humble but expressive name of Schmidt; his daughter—if she is his daughter—there’s another point—make a note of that, Mr. Forsyth—his daughter at that time actually served in the shop—and she now proposes to marry a man of the eminence of Mr. Thomas!
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the prerogative of the whole ecclesia , not of some handful of them.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

H2 anchor CHAPTER VII A MATRIMONIAL TALE Before Geoffrey Bingham dropped off into a troubled sleep on that eventful night of storm, he learned that the girl who had saved his life at the risk and almost at the cost of her own was out of danger, and in his own and more reticent way he thanked Providence as heartily as did Owen Davies.
— from Beatrice by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

They cannot tell the exact number of sheep, however; neither could a man without first counting them.
— from The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

Expedition, Naval, off Sandy Hook in 1776, under Dayton and Alexander, 328 ; Capture of British Provision Ship.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing