So great a bulk of lands to bulge and break!
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Here the marriage contract between John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster was signed, when there were great rejoicings in the ancient town, and tilts and tournaments took place daily.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Georgiana assented; but, on looking at the result, was affrighted to find the features of the portrait blurred and indefinable; while the minute figure of a hand appeared where the cheek should have been.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I’m going to give you girls a bunch of lavendar apiece,” said Miss Lavendar brightly, as if she had not heard the answer to her question.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

613. —Arms of the family of Schaler (Basle): Gules, a bend of lozenges argent.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

" Thus sourly wail'd he, sputtering dirt and gore; A burst of laughter echoed through the shore.
— from The Iliad by Homer

If you have any difficulty in banishing unpleasant or torturing thoughts, force yourself to read some good, inspiring book—something that will smooth out your wrinkles and put you in a happy mood; something that will make you see the real grandeur and beauty of life; something that will make you feel ashamed of petty meannesses and narrow, uncharitable thoughts.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

16 I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine, One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth, A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland, At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking, At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,) Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat, A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest, A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons, Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion, A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker, Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

How very differently from Daun, Frederick the Great would have used the victory at Kollin; and what different consequences France, in place of Prussia, might have given a battle of Leuthen!
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

At this, mother, sister, and the maid assisting them give a burst of laughter, when, with a scream of immense delight, he will strike his fists into the water, causing a panic among the well-clad and not-ready-to-get-wet attendants.
— from When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

Sometimes he thought that if he were lying dead under six feet of turf and Sara Stuart's name were pronounced above him, his heart would give a bound of life.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Dr. Rigal was the Representative of Gaillac, and Belle of Lavaur.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

" "And at the last minute Smiley's been hinting something about Mildmay giving a bit of land to extend the Recreation Ground.
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

To have him pass you by is to get a breath of life.
— from The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

But Mr. Theodore's room had a delightful grate, a big old lounge, a generous centre-table where the girls used to play house under the cover, and such piles of books everywhere, so many pictures on the wall, such curious pipes and swords and trophies from different lands.
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas

For in the first yeares of his reigne, after he once began to gouerne of himselfe, he recouered that which had béene lost in Scotland, by great victories obteined against his aduersaries in that land, and passed further into the same, than euer his grandfather king Edward the first had doone before him, subduing the countrie on each hand, so that he placed gouernors, and bestowed offices, lands, and liuings in that realme at his pleasure.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (11 of 12) Edward the Third, Who Came to the Crowne by the Resignation of His Father Edward the Second by Raphael Holinshed

I've got a box of lunch and a feed for my horse in the back of the buggy.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

On the contrary; it is in the estuary, between the latitudes 47° and 49°, that the greatest quantity of gravel and boulders of large dimensions are carried down annually towards the sea.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

A theory of general application has been put forward and supported with great ability by Oscar Loew
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth