J. H. BERNARD, D.D., D.C.L. BISHOP OF OSSORY SOMETIME FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND ARCHBISHOP KING’S PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN SECOND EDITION, REVISED MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

No, no, you owe your success to your philtres, to your drugs and incantations; and not to your natural talents, which are, in every respect, mean and contemptible.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Bonaparte organised the army of the East, raised money, and collected ships; and it was he who conceived the happy idea of joining to the expedition men distinguished in science and art, and whose labours have made known, in its present and past state, a country, the very name of which is never pronounced without exciting grand recollections.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The dark trail of blood dyed the earth round mimosa and cactus hedges, while a thousand perforations on the roofs of the corrugated iron dwellings confessed to the all too fervent kisses of British lead.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

Two poems, written in close imitation of Theocritus' natural manner, and entitled respectively Moretum and Copa , have sometimes, but wrongly, been attributed to Vergil.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

The sea varied its colour constantly—blue, green, brown, and even red, mingling and changing in the bright sunshine.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

Engineer Ruiz moved a crew of carpenters, sawyers, and axemen from work on the Castillo to rebuild a blockhouse where the trail to Apalache crossed the St. Johns River.
— from Castillo de San Marcos A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Florida by United States. National Park Service

In the midst of this aquatic storm, we toasted Old England right merrily and cordially; and the conducteur, seeing us in good humour, told us that "we need not hurry, for that he preferred a dry journey to a wet one."
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

There is a species of Acanthometra (echinoides) extremely common in some parts of the coast of Norway, which, to the naked eye, resembles merely a crimson point.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The Egyptians related many allegories concerning their various deities, but we have space only to narrate the story regarding Osiris and Isis, god of the sun and the goddess of dawn.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer