The bath was to be got ready, and eatables, and everything else.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

[Pg 40] the carriages drawn up in line on the avenue, the oilcloth capes of the coachmen, all the splendid accoutrements of the horses to which the water and the sunbeams imparted vastly greater richness and effect, and everywhere a gleam of blue, the blue of the sky, smiling in the interval between two showers.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

Although Luxembourg, like all EU members, has suffered from the global economic slump, the country has maintained a fairly strong growth rate and enjoys an extraordinarily high standard of living.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The persons so sucked waned, grew pale, and fell into consumption; while the sucking corpses grew fat, got rosy, and enjoyed an excellent appetite.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire

The designs of the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, and even the forms of their buildings, are still copied at the present day.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various