The gardens, laid out with taste, were adorned with fine marble statues.
— from Candide by Voltaire

and so over the water to Fox Hall; and there my wife and Deb. come and took me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our way for three or four mile, about Cobham.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Sir, farewell; repeat my wishes To our great Lord, of whose succes I dare not Make any timerous question; yet I wish him Exces and overflow of power, and't might be, To dure ill-dealing fortune: speede to him, Store never hurtes good Gouernours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

And our indentures tripartite are drawn; Which being sealed interchangeably,— A business that this night may execute,— To-morrow, cousin Percy, you, and I, And my good Lord of Worcester, will set forth To meet your father and the Scottish power, As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Good liquor, of which there is not even a drop left sufficient to wet one's nail.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Mazarin gazed once more at a countenance full of intelligence, the play of which had been, nevertheless, subdued by age and experience; and D’Artagnan received the penetrating glance like one who had formerly sustained many a searching look, very different, indeed, from those which were inquiringly directed on him at that instant.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

he said there was an old man of his nation a days march below who could probably give me some information of the country to the N. W. and refered me to an old man then present for that to the S. W.—the Chief further informed me that he had understood from the persed nosed Indians who inhabit this river below the rocky mountains that it ran a great way toward the seting sun and finally lost itself in a great lake of water which was illy taisted, and where the white men lived.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I think the duty of the aggressive standing leg of the leading Bacchante, with its great look of weight, is to give a look of lightness to this forward leg of Bacchus, by contrast—which it certainly does.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

In the Commonwealth of Pyrates, he who goes the greatest Length of Wickedness, is looked upon with a kind of Envy amongst them, as a Person of a more extraordinary Gallantry, and is thereby entitled to be distinguished by some Post, and if such a one has but Courage, he must certainly be a great Man.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Tecumseh says: "Houses are built for whites— the red man's house, Leaf-roofed, and walled with living oak, is there— [ Pointing to the grove .] Let our white brother meet us in it!"
— from Tecumseh : a Drama by Charles Mair

Of the temptations of the senses (“ titillatio ”) to which he was exposed he had complained, for instance, in the same year (1519) in a letter to his superior Staupitz, [373] and the worldly intercourse into which he was drawn, “the social gatherings, excessive indulgence in the pleasures of the table, and general lukewarmness,” of which he speaks on the same occasion, make such temptations all the more likely in the case of a young man of a temper so lively and impressionable, especially as his lukewarmness took the shape of neglect of prayer and the means of grace, and of the help he might have derived from the exercises of the Order.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The sons of Hunding afterwards demanded from Sigmund's son treasure and rings; because they had on the prince to avenge their great loss of wealth, and their father's death.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

While Robertson had more of this world’s gear than I, for his father had provided him with sufficient funds to purchase a good lot of wild land, which he did in the township of M——, and I was to work with him, on shares.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

[54] The necessary employment of his time in painting, and studying works of art, during several of the first years of his residence in Italy, was such as to leave little opportunity for other occupations, and he found, to his regret, that he had either lost a great deal of his knowledge of the Greek language, or, what is more probable, that he had never possessed it in that degree which he flattered himself he had attained while at college.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

Gerasim looked on with a smile at all this ado; at last, Stepan got up, much amazed, and hurriedly explained to him by signs that the mistress wanted the dog brought in to her.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

But that is what you may call good luck, or what you please—it is not a rule.”
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

Where the bridge had fallen, a great lake of water, fed by the river, was spreading and spreading.
— from Lady Kilpatrick by Robert Williams Buchanan

A German Life of Wyclif, by Dr. Lechler, is often quoted by Matthew, and has been fortunately translated into English.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord