He passed forth, and new adventure sought; Long way he travelled, before he heard of ought.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The colour rushed over her face and neck, and she tossed her head in silence with an air of ineffable contempt.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The parties affected are innumerable almost, and scattered over the face of the earth, far and near, and so have been in all precedent ages, from the beginning of the world to these times, of all sorts and conditions.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

as the buffaloe generally go in large herds to water and the passages to the river about the falls are narrow and steep the hinder part of the herd press those in front out of their debth and the water instatly takes them over the cataracts where they are instantly crushed to death without the possibility of escaping.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, in all things but this, I know how full of fears a woman is, And faint at need, and shrinking from the light Of battle: but once spoil her of her right In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well, No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

These acquisitions were confirmed by a treaty of peace with the emperor Alexius: his fear of Robert compelled him to seek the friendship of Soliman; and it was not till after the sultan's death that he extended as far as Nicomedia, about sixty miles from Constantinople, the eastern boundary of the Roman world.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“I thank you all, my good friends and neighbours,” Arthur said, “for the good opinion of me, and the kind feelings towards me which Mr. Poyser has been expressing on your behalf and on his own, and it will always be my heartiest wish to deserve them.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Wildly here, without control, Nature reigns and rules the whole; In that sober pensive mood, Dearest to the feeling soul, She plants the forest, pours the flood: Life's poor day I'll musing rave And find at night a sheltering cave, Where waters flow and wild woods wave, By bonie Castle Gordon. H2 anchor Song—Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky Tune—“The Ruffian's Rant.” A' The lads o' Thorniebank, When they gae to the shore o' Bucky, They'll step in an' tak a pint Wi' Lady Onlie, honest Lucky.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Her mind was fully awake now, and she would be able to see.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

When the water's countenance Blurrs 'twixt glance and second glance; When the tattered smokes forerun Ashen 'neath a silvered sun; When the curtain of the haze Shuts upon our helpless ways— Hear the Channel Fleet at sea; Libera nos domine !
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

That lady is giving a dinner-party to-night, and she wants some one to arrange the flowers on her table in as fresh and new a style as possible.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

The friends are now at Salzburg; and on a very warm day they assembled in a sequestered spot whence they could see the snowy peaks of the Tyrolese Alps.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

he grumbled; 'have I not written four sonnets in the best rhyme praying for firewood, and not a stick has come.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

WHY THE OWL FLIES AT NIGHT A Story of
— from The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores by Elsie Spicer Eells

We had no knives, and no artery forceps, and not a stitch of catgut; but we had an oesophagoscope, and the very latest possible pattern of cystoscope, and a marvellous set of tools for plating fractures.
— from A Surgeon in Belgium by Henry Sessions Souttar

[Dr. GEORG BIEDENKAPP, writing in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten , says that if you examine any famous "Englishman" you find that he really comes from Scotland, to which country he assigns a place with Suabia, Thuringia, and the Hartz Mountains as "a cradle of Kultur and a fountain of first-class genius."] Man Sandy, here's a German Hun Wha thinks he's on a track That nane hae trodden, having fun' A new an' stairtlin' fac'; A' English thocht he doots is nocht, An' English ways are henious, But ah, says he, in Scotland see The hame o' first-class genius.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various

Its members have a larger head, a flatter face and nose, and smaller eyes than those of the other families.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier