( Ahab goes; Pip steps one step forward. )
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Show some pity for Christ's sake, pity a sick man, an old man, &c., he cares not, ride on: pretend sickness, inevitable loss of limbs, goods, plead suretyship, or shipwreck, fires, common calamities, show thy wants and imperfections, Et si per sanctum juratus dicat Osyrim, Credite, non ludo, crudeles tollite claudum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On behalf of His Holiness, Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, issued a statement (24th August, 1918) in which we read:— “History teaches us that a form of government imposed by arms does not and cannot live.”
— from The Issue: The Case for Sinn Fein by Lector

GREEN PEA SCRAMBLE One cupful of cold cooked green peas, six or seven well-beaten eggs.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

iii THE Albert Lithographic Printing Office, Established to promote Female Employment , 168, GREAT PORTLAND STREET, OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W. E. FULLER & CO., ARE PREPARED TO EXECUTE Every description of Chromo-Lithography, ALSO COPPER-PLATE & LETTER-PRESS PRINTING, WITH PROMPTNESS AND DESPATCH, At Twenty per Cent.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara

Virgil was, as we saw in examining the Georgics, peculiarly susceptible of such impressions.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

One noon-tide, during the early years of the nineteenth century, a group of light-hearted soldiers were standing together outside the guard-house in the great public square of Seville waiting for the change of guard; and as they stood there, idly watching the ever-moving crowd, they whiled away the time by making merry remarks on the passers-by.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

The arrangement of the house should secure the greatest possible supply of sunshine in December and January, and the least possible during the growing season, when, as Miss Howard points out, it is necessary to secure as low a temperature as possible, so as to obtain good, vigorous, healthy-growing plants.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

New French units were also coming into line, blocking the Germans' path south of Soissons on the road to Villers-Cotterets, as well as at Château-Thierry.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

Why are they so fond of feathers—not charming drooping feathers, but a sort of clipped hedge, all of a size, like a garden plot; sometimes oblong, sometimes round?
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton