The heat I had contracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

We take a low and primitive view of things when we conceive of God at the creation coming into physical contact with things, shaping and fitting and building like a carpenter.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Jude had one day seen him selling a pot of coloured lard to an old woman as a certain cure for a bad leg, the woman arranging to pay a guinea, in instalments of a shilling a fortnight, for the precious salve, which, according to the physician, could only be obtained from a particular animal which grazed on Mount Sinai, and was to be captured only at great risk to life and limb.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But the beacons were not fired, because it had been usual to look for them lighted from the east onwards, and nobody had observed them from the east coast; and besides King Hakon had set heavy penalties for giving false alarm, by lighting the beacons without occasion.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Like others fly, and be like others slain?
— from The Iliad by Homer

164 C H A P. lV W hen my uncle Toby had turned every thing into money, and settled all accounts betwixt the agent of the regiment and Le Fever, and betwixt Le Fever and all mankind,——there remained nothing more in my uncle Toby ’s hands, than an old regimental coat and a sword; so that my uncle Toby found little or no opposition from the world in taking administration.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

As all the Members have seen the papers and recorded their opinions, they arrive in Council with a full knowledge of the facts, and but little speechifying takes place.
— from Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter

But you—you that ken all this to be true, which I must take on your word—you that, if I understood what you said e'en now, promised her shelter and protection in her travail, why do not you step forward, and bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience?
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

This speaks well for the mental improvement of Canada, and is a proof that people have more leisure for acquiring book lore, and more money for the purchase of books, than they had some years ago.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Brood is used chiefly of fowls and birds, litter of certain quadrupeds which bring forth many young at a birth; we speak of a brood of chickens, a litter of puppies; brood is sometimes applied to a family of young children.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

He became a more affectionate father, a better landlord, and a kinder master.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I had an idea I knew the fellow, and but little honesty is there in him.
— from Tales of the Sea, and of Our Jack Tars by William Henry Giles Kingston

When everything was arranged, Frank and Barney left the professor, and once more followed the strange man of the canyon on their way to the village of the Danites.
— from Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

He and Richard Cameron in the winter of 1773 had built for themselves a comfortable cabin of heavy hewn logs, near the plantation house; and on winter nights long after the Campbells were asleep; their windows glowed from a bright light-wood fire.
— from Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

And should they be stripped of this ornament, and of the assistance and approbation of the faith, and be looked upon as mere fancies only, to contend with those who are precipitated into the dreadful and horrible darkness of irrligion, they will even there find them as solid and firm as any others of the same quality that can be opposed against them; so that we shall be ready to say to our opponents: Si melius quid habes, arcesse; vel imperium fer: “If you have arguments more fit.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In the meantime the Marshal de Villars has assembled the French army between Lens, la Bassée, and Douay.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir