There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The peasant placed before them all, that his cottage afforded—ham, wine, figs, and grapes of such size and flavour, as Emily had seldom tasted.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

—— madēscō , get moist madēscere maduī —— marcēscō , pine away marcēscere ( ē-marcuī ) —— mātūrēscō , ripen mātūrēscere mātūruī —— nigrēscō , get black nigrēscere nigruī —— nōtēscō , get known nōtēscere nōtuī —— ob-mūtēscō , get still ob-mūtēscere ob-mūtuī —— ob-surdēscō , get deaf ob-surdēscere ob-surduī —— oc-callēscō , get hard oc-callēscere oc-calluī —— pallēscō , grow pale pallēscere palluī —— pūtēscō , get soaked pūtēscere pūtuī —— rigēscō , stiffen up rigēscere riguī —— rubēscō , redden rubēscere rubuī —— sānēscō , get well sānēscere -sānuī —— senēscō , grow old senēscere -senuī —— stupēscō , get dazed stupēscere ( ob-stupuī ) —— Also op-stipēscō or ob-stipēscō , op-stipuī or ob-stipuī . tābēscō , waste away tābēscere tābuī —— tepēscō , get lukewarm tepēscere tepuī —— -timēscō , get scared -timēscere -timuī —— torpēscō , get numb torpēscere torpuī —— tremēscō , quake tremēscere ( con-tremuī ) —— Also in the present system, con-tremīscō , con-tremīscere , &c. tumēscō , swell up tumēscere -tumuī —— valēscō , get strong valēscere -valuī —— vānēscō , wane vānēscere ( ē-vānuī ) —— 169 DEPONENTS IN -ī .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Now Evan Thomas was ‘an old gentleman of such strict veracity that he’ on one occasion ‘did confess a truth against himself,’ when he was ‘like to suffer loss’ thereby, and notwithstanding he ‘was persuaded by some not to do it, yet he would persist in telling the truth, to his own hurt.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

This is because it wants to read only what has just been printed, and because similis simili gaudet , and it finds the shallow, insipid gossip of some stupid head of to-day more homogeneous and agreeable than the thoughts of great minds.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

In one of the gaps of silence, somebody mentioned the dry and rather nasty subject of human anatomy; whereupon good Mrs. Threadgall straightway brought in her late husband as usual, without mentioning that he was dead.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In Wales it is thought that horses have peculiarly this ‘gift’ of seeing spectres.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The wonted good-humored expression of his countenance had given place to a gaze of stereotyped surprise and solemnity.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In 1630, just as peace was being concluded with France and Spain, Charles I., who was beginning his experiment of absolute government, despatched the Seahorse , Captain Quail, to the Red Sea to capture the ships and goods of Spanish subjects, as well as of any other nations not in league and amity with England.
— from The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph

Helm was a good officer in many respects, and his patriotism was of the best; but he liked jolly company, a glass of something strong and a large share of ease.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

She had frequent visions, the gift of second sight, and great power over devils.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

The maid called her family physician, explaining all she knew, and the matter was at once put into the hands of capable detectives who are doing all they know how to locate the missing son, who has been gone only since Saturday evening; and also to find the missing jewels and other property, and it is hoped that before evening the young man will be found.”
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

In the Commentary he had written, that too great esteem of outward works led to a too frequent granting of Indulgences, and that the Pope and the Bishops were more cruel than cruelty itself if they did not freely grant the same, or even greater Indulgences, for God’s sake and the good of souls, seeing that they themselves had received all they had for nothing.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

This slight sketch will suffice to mark the leading features of a large class of laws which must be regarded as a growth of State socialism.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

Then all of us,—with the exception of the Ennitra, who are the thrice-cursed sons of Eblis,—laying aside all fear and dread, will, guided by the Giver of Strength, strive with one accord against the enemies of the Faith; for Allah the Comforter knoweth that if any man die, he dieth for the truth of the Faith, for the salvation of his land, for the protection of the tombs and holy cities, and the defence of the Belief.
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux