He was perfectly in his senses, and free from every complaint except feeling weak and languid.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came; Thy very beams will dry those vapours up, For every cloud engenders not a storm.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Burn ‘em, tear ‘em, nip ‘em with hot pincers, drown ‘em, hang ‘em, spit ‘em at the bunghole, pelt ‘em, paut ‘em, bruise ‘em, beat ‘em, cripple ‘em, dismember ‘em, cut ‘em, gut ‘em, bowel ‘em, paunch ‘em, thrash ‘em, slash ‘em, gash ‘em, chop ‘em, slice ‘em, slit ‘em, carve ‘em, saw ‘em, bethwack ‘em, pare ‘em, hack ‘em, hew ‘em, mince ‘em, flay ‘em, boil ‘em, broil ‘em, roast ‘em, toast ‘em, bake ‘em, fry ‘em, crucify ‘em, crush ‘em, squeeze ‘em, grind ‘em, batter ‘em, burst ‘em, quarter ‘em, unlimb ‘em, behump ‘em, bethump ‘em, belam ‘em, belabour ‘em, pepper ‘em, spitchcock ‘em, and carbonade ‘em on gridirons, these wicked heretics!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

For the slowness of punishment takes away belief in providence, and the wicked, observing that no evil follows each crime except long afterwards, attribute it when it comes to mischance, and look upon it in the light more of accident than punishment, and so receive no benefit from it, being grieved indeed when the misfortune comes, but feeling no remorse for
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

298 tōmearcodnes f. enumeration, census, enrolment , Lk 2 2 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Vivit vivetque per omnem saeculorum memoriam, dumque hoc vel forte vel 10 providentia vel utcumque constitutum rerum naturae corpus, quod ille paene solus Romanorum animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit, manebit incolume, comitem aevi sui laudem Ciceronis trahet omnisque posteritas illius in te scripta mirabitur, 15 tuum in eum factum exsecrabitur citiusque e mundo genus hominum quam Ciceronis memoria cedet.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wherefore the band of ponies counted about sixty head, for each cowboy employs from seven to ten personal ponies in his labours and rides down three a day.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

The Domesday census, we may add, makes the inhabitants of that portion which is called “In Novâ Forestâ et circa eam,” a little over two hundred.
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

And I don't suppose the young lady feels extray comfortable, either," he exclaimed.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

We have this detail from the fountain-head, from the persons themselves; in accounts written by eye-witnesses of the scene, by contemporaries and companions of those who were so; not in one book but four, each containing enough for the verification of the religion, all agreeing in the fundamental parts of the history.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

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— from The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect by Benjamin Franklin Schappelle

And—there's no need for any very close or careful looking, either!—no need for expert calligraphic evidence, or for the use of microscopes.
— from Dead Men's Money by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

It is a fact that poultry manure, free from earth, contains even as high
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

God is going to bring together people from every country, everybody who has faith like this officer's faith.
— from The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford

Ipse est qui post me venturus est, qui ante me factus est: cuius ego non sum dignus ut solvam eius corrigiam calceamenti.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory