But when the flesh wastes and returns into the veins there is discoloured blood as well as air in the veins, having acid and salt qualities, from which is generated every sort of phlegm and bile.
— from Timaeus by Plato

(The Wolf had brought out from Germany enormous stores of provisions for the cruise, which was expected to last about a year.
— from Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' by Frederic George Trayes

The all-powerful Olivarez underwent, in 1643, the fate of most favourites, and experienced the doom denounced by the great English satirist on "power too great to keep, or to resign."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

At Natchez there speedily gathered every species of purveyor to their vicious pleasures, and the part of the town known as "Natchez under the Hill" became a by-word for crime and debauchery.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

The deep solitude of the place favoured meditation; and the romantic scenery around supplied great external sources of pleasure.’
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

Still, I know of panelled rooms yet existent whose owners look at their grained walls and wonder how they can make them less hideous, and perhaps some of them may see this book, and may resolve to do away with that terrible eyesore, a grained device, and set to work to paint the walls a delicate sparrow’s-egg-blue, furthermore embellished by long designs of rushes and grasses, either stencilled or painted on by some one of the many girls who can paint, and who can be found always at Mrs. McClelland’s studio, should we number not one of those useful damsels among our acquaintances.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

His uncalled-for appearance in this saloon was something so extraordinary, so unprecedented, that it could be only justified on the ground of some great emergency, something of paramount importance.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Our own epoch, or creation, is but another added to the number of that wonderful series which presents a grand display of the mighty power of God: every stage of progress in the earth and its habitants is such a display.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

His government urged him to get explicit statements of principle inserted, more especially anything that would make cargoes neutral when under neutral flags.
— from The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood