Then consider the garden of “my own,” so overgrown, entangled with roses and lilies, as to be “a little wilderness”—the fawn loving to be there, and there “only”—the maiden seeking it “where it should lie”—and not being able to distinguish it from the flowers until “itself would rise”—the lying among the lilies “like a bank of lilies”—the loving to “fill itself with roses,” “And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold,” and these things being its “chief” delights-and then the pre-eminent beauty and naturalness of the concluding lines, whose very hyperbole only renders them more true to nature when we consider the innocence, the artlessness, the enthusiasm, the passionate girl, and more passionate admiration of the bereaved child— “Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And let the law be in the following terms: When a man is found guilty of disgracefully throwing away his arms in war, no general or military officer shall allow him to serve as a soldier, or give him any place at all in the ranks of soldiers; and the officer who gives the coward any place, shall suffer a penalty which the public examiner shall exact of him; and if he be of the highest class, he shall pay a thousand drachmae; or if he be of the second class, five minae; or if he be of the third, three minae; or if he be of the fourth class, one mina.
— from Laws by Plato

Unto his horse, that's feeding free, He seems, I think, the rein to give; Of moon or stars he takes no heed; Of such we in romances read, —'Tis Johnny!
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

“I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Since I had got over my own sickness, the third day from Boston, I had seen nothing but hale, hearty men, with their sea legs on, and able to go anywhere, (for we had no passengers;) and I will own there was a pleasant feeling of superiority in being able to walk the deck, and eat, and go about, and comparing one's self with two poor, miserable, pale creatures, staggering and shuffling about decks, or holding on and looking up with giddy heads, to see us climbing to the mast-heads, or sitting quietly at work on the ends of the lofty yards.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Thus, not all the charms of the incomparable Sophia; not all the dazzling brightness, and languishing softness of her eyes; the harmony of her voice, and of her person; not all her wit, good-humour, greatness of mind, or sweetness of disposition, had been able so absolutely to conquer and enslave the heart of poor Jones, as this little incident of the muff.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"I—I want to play that—that I have a garden of my own," she stammered.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I only paid myself back eight groschen of my own," said Friedrich and he told them the story.
— from In the Year '13: A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter

By a Christ-like demeanor may I exhibit the sanctifying and transforming influence of the Gospel on my own soul, that others may take knowledge of me that I have been with Jesus.
— from Evening Incense by John R. (John Ross) Macduff

He had steadily refused the glasses of muscadel or sack which Mistress Endicott had insinuatingly and persistently been offering him, ever since he began to play; yet he felt intoxicated, with strange currents of fire which seemed to run through his veins.
— from The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Slice one small can of truffles, put in casserole with one glass of Madeira or sherry wine, reduce, add one pint of brown gravy and boil again for twelve minutes.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

“But, you see, I haven’t known much of any one but girls of my own sort.
— from Waynflete by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

I never, for the good of my own soul, want to grow as cold and calculating as some so-called hospitable women whom I have met in the North."
— from At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell

Midst commonly implies a group or multitude of surrounding objects.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

As the startled sentry echoed the alarm and sprang to the bulwarks, he caught a glimpse of moving objects sweeping down on the slumbering vessel.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

V "One cannot yacht in the Baltic or in the Gulf of Mexico," Owen said, and he went to the Mediterranean again to sail about the Ægean Islands, wondering if he should land, changing his mind, deciding suddenly that the celebrated site he was going to see would not interest him.
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore