Julia was—yet I never could see why— With Donna Inez quite a favourite friend; Between their tastes there was small sympathy, For not a line had Julia ever penn'd: Some people whisper
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Ferdinand, not a little pleased at their departure, renewed his most pathetic expressions of love, and sung several French songs on that tender subject, which seemed to thrill to the soul of his beauteous Helen.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Regardless of her tangled hair, Her jewels stripped from neck and limb, Decked only with her love of him.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It grows in sundry counties of this land, both north and west, and frequently by path-sides in the fields near about London, and within three or four miles distant about it, yet it usually grows in or near ditches.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

January 28th.—Murat deserts the French army for Naples, and leaves Posen.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

This is the reason why there are seen in the stonework of so many fountains, niches and little statues of saints who have given their names to these springs.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

For he being supposed to have all, both legislative and executive power in himself alone, there is no judge to be found, no appeal lies open to any one, who may fairly, and indifferently, and with authority decide, and from whose decision relief and redress may be expected of any injury or inconviency, that may be suffered from the prince, or by his order: so that such a man, however intitled, Czar, or Grand Seignior, or how you please, is as much in the state of nature, with all under his dominion, as he is with the rest of mankind: for where-ever any two men are, who have no standing rule, and common judge to appeal to on earth, for the determination of controversies of right betwixt them, there they are still in the state of* nature, and under all the inconveniencies of it, with only this woful difference to the subject, or rather slave of an absolute prince: that whereas, in the ordinary state of nature, he has a liberty to judge of his right, and according to the best of his power, to maintain it; now, whenever his property is invaded by the will and order of his monarch, he has not only no appeal, as those in society ought to have, but as if he were degraded from the common state of rational creatures, is denied a liberty to judge of, or to defend his right; and so is exposed to all the misery and inconveniencies, that a man can fear from one, who being in the unrestrained state of nature, is yet corrupted with flattery, and armed with power.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Our humbler province is to tend the Fair, Not a less pleasing, tho' less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th' imprison'd-essences exhale; To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs; To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in show'rs A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelow.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

They vote a dead tradition and a local fear, not a living conviction and a national faith.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

He has sent me to call you, so come with me that you may both be happy together after all; for now at last the desire of your heart has been fulfilled; your husband is come home to find both wife and son alive and well, and to take his revenge in his own house on the suitors who behaved so badly to him.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The boys got down on their faces near a little pool, the bottom of which was covered with white pebbles, and drank heartily.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

When he first observed this, he felt not a little embarrassed to explain the phenomenon, and doubted whether new plates were forming, or whether bees cast their old ones as lobsters do their shell.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

The restlessness, craving for novelty, and love of excitement, so characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon, and to a less extent of some other European races, has its correspondence in the food of these races.
— from The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan

Here, as usual, were flowers, newspapers, a littered writing-table, and a general aspect of lamp-lit familiarity, so that it was a surprise not to see Judy's energetic figure start up from the arm-chair near the fire.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The mundane egg was everywhere received as the symbol of the original, passive, unorganized formless nature, and later became associated with other symbols referring to the creative force or vitalizing in [Pg 62] fluence, which was often represented in emblem by a bull.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

Two nights were played at Fairmount; the first night a large, well pleased audience attended.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field