‘He was eight years and six months old when they broke his first rib; eight years and eight months old when they broke his second, and did for him.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

And since that false wisdom has failed, and the wisdom of this world, and the rulers of this world, came to nought in the terrible crisis of the French Revolution, eighty years ago, men have been taking up a new idolatry.
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

Goldwater had, indeed, blossomed out since the days of his hired hall in Spitalfields, but his fame remained exclusively Yiddish and East-side.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

Round every maid light robes of linen flowed; Round every youth a glossy tunic glowed; Those wreathed with flowers, while from their partners hung Swords that, all gold, from belts of silver swung.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

It seems he brought home malaria , which never entirely left his system, the low fever returning every year, and being only mitigated by a change to mountain air.
— from Fra Bartolommeo by Leader Scott

This is what has happened in Italy to God the Father and the Holy Ghost, who have vanished from the vulgar Olympus; whereas the devil, thanks to that unprincipled versatility for which he is famous, remains ever young and popular.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas