I at once turned down the bed-clothes, stripped off his shirt and exhibited him quite naked, his fiery little dart, standing erect and un-hooded, exhibiting its proportions in the most splendid manner, and I asked if he had ever seen anything more beautiful.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

In the tenth Satire, one of the couplets upon the vanity of wishes even for literary distinction stood thus: 'Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Pride, envy, want, the GARRET, and the jail.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Quā dē causā castra 7 in colle ab utrāque parte arduō, ā fronte lēniter dēclīvī saepe pōnēbantur; vel locus palūdibus cīnctus vel in flūminis rīpīs situs dēligēbātur.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Mr Wegg also noticed, with admiring eyes, that, while the flowery land displayed such hollow ornamentation as stuffed birds and waxen fruits under glass-shades, there were, in the territory where vegetation ceased, compensatory shelves on which the best part of a large pie and likewise of a cold joint were plainly discernible among other solids.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Note: 9 send] lend Cambridge Autograph MS. XIV When Faith and Love which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou didst resign this earthy load Of Death, call'd Life; which us from Life doth sever Thy Works and Alms and all thy
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Fusaro, Lago di. See Acherusian Lake.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But as the race of falling leaves decay, Such is the fate of man.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Abishag presents the contrast between the dawning and the fading life; David Singing Before Saul shows the impatience of awakening ambition, and Joshua is the man who forces even God to do his will.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

He too was a native of Chin Ling and belonged to a family literary during successive generations; but this young Hsüeh had recently, when of tender age, lost his father, and his widowed mother out of pity for his being the only male issue and a fatherless child, could not help doating on him and indulging him to such a degree, that when he, in course of time, grew up to years of manhood, he was good for nothing.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Wondering what enterprise called them together, and fearful lest duty should prevent his obtaining the furlough which he intended to ask, in order that he might save Kate, or at least die in the attempt, he walked moodily to the tent of Marion.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 3, March 1847 by Various

The most unimaginative of those onlookers breathed a sigh of admiration when two Malayo-Polynesian youths stepped out of the shadows and put forth their arms, looking at first like dusky statues, not only because of their perfect terra-cotta limbs and artistic pose, but because of their graceful erectness as their arms and legs moved with marvellous symmetrical precision.
— from Gabrielle of the Lagoon: A Romance of the South Seas by W. H. (William Henry) Myddleton

But after a few days' time, in which more than two hundred thousand francs slipped through her fingers, Lady Dauntrey suggested that Miss Grant should "rest" for a while, meantime letting Dauntrey play his system for her benefit and with her capital.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The event is described in the following letter, dated Siena, July 12, 1794, from the Earl of Bristol to Sir William Hamilton, K.B., F.R.S., at that time British Envoy-Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples:— 7 "In the midst of a most violent thunderstorm, about a dozen stones of various weights and dimensions fell at the feet of different persons, men, women and children.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites With a List of the Meteorites Represented in the Collection by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

A few days afterward was Tausig's birthday, and Carolina took Gottschal aside, and begged him to drop the subject of the note stealing, for Liszt doted so on his Carl that he wished to forget it.
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

They are, moreover, agreeable reading; for Lord Dufferin, serious and well considered as are his observations, is never dull, and, whenever occasion permits, breaks away into a light-heartedness that reminds us that he is a true Irishman, and that the Sheridan blood flows in his veins.
— from Mr. Murray's List of New and Recent Publications July, 1890 by John Murray (Firm)

‘... I ask therefore confidently, that you will, if it be not displeasing to your holy paternity, send to me without delay Friar Laurence de Sutthon, as my socius , if he consents, and that you will send Friar A. to London to study, as he himself greatly desires, if it be your good pleasure.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little