Before I doubted, and now I cannot believe, that so small a quantity of this Medicine will suffice for transmuting four grains of Lead; O, said he, if you cannot rightly handle your Lead in the Crucible, by reason of the so very small quantity thereof then take two drams, or half an ounce, or a little more of the lead, for more must not be tinged, then well may.
— from The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires In Which Is Handled the Most Rare and Incomparable Wonder of Nature, in Transmuting Metals; viz. How the Intire Substance of Lead, Was in One Moment Transmuted in Gold-Obrizon, with an Exceeding Small Particle of the True Philosophick Stone by Johann Friedrich Helvetius

Where Sanskrit a following the consonant corresponded to Greek or Latin o , Sanskrit had velar k or g ; where, on the other hand, it corresponded to Greek or Latin e , Sanskrit had palatal c or j .
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

It was with the greatest difficulty that the wretched, mad people had been prevented from invading the ambulance, and when one of the unfortunate nurses had gone out, later on, she had been mobbed and beaten until she was left half dead from fright and blows.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

If he found a little child crying over a broken toy he would stop and mend it, and in a few moments the tears would be gone and the little one would go off laughing or singing, hugging his mended toy.
— from In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison

On all that leveled surface of the ancient grotto of Locmaria, one single hillock attracted their eyes.
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

But this I know, that as for me, Between that face and the hard fate That kept me ever from my own, As some wronged monarch from his throne, God’s heaped-up gold of land or sea Had never weighed one feather’s weight.
— from Songs of the Mexican Seas by Joaquin Miller