Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar trees and cocoa palms.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Near this place was a fig-tree, which they called Ruminalius, either from Romulus, as most persons imagine, or because cattle came to ruminate in its shade, or, more probably, because of the suckling of the children there, for the ancients called the nipple rouma .
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"When I considered the actions which I meant to describe; (those inferring the persons), I was again persuaded rather to choose those of a former age, than the present; and in a century so far removed, as might preserve me from their improper examinations, who know not the requisites of a poem, nor how much pleasure they lose, (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable), who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of an historian.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A soft and cooling air breathed along the solitary Aisles: The Moonbeams darting into the Church through painted windows tinged the fretted roofs and massy pillars with a thousand various tints of light and colours: Universal silence prevailed around, only interrupted by the occasional closing of Doors in the adjoining Abbey.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

we are about to take a step, to assume an attitude which must change all our foreign relations, and may produce a [Pg 453] change in our political character, it becomes us to summon all our wisdom—to collect all our moderation and firmness, and to unite all our energies and exertions.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

With all her personal regard for the primate, Elizabeth could not always refrain in his presence from reflections against married priests, which gave him great pain.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

This disproportion will go on to increase until it assimilates to every old country, with a few rich and many poor.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

The low notes struck me as the fullest, richest, and most plaintive I had ever heard; and I fancied they could not be equalled, until the strain carried the singer's voice into a higher key, where it seemed equally at home.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Distress, which turns upon the involutions of unnatural or incestuous passion, carries with it something too disgusting for the sympathy of a refined age; whereas, in a simple state of society, the feelings require a more powerful stimulus; as we see the vulgar crowd round an object of real horror, with the same pleasure we reap from seeing it represented on a theatre.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

Tom took them and examined them, and the way he drew the rifle to his face rather astonished Mr. Parsons.
— from Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget by Harry Castlemon

He agreed with most of the French teachers of the time that few rules and much practice under the guidance of a good master, was the best way of learning French.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley