Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, Talbot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides there; and I have no reason to doubt that he is now as highly esteemed, and as greatly respected, as though his guilty soul had never been stained with innocent blood.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

[172] Of the golden rays (around the head).
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

And as Gawaine followed the hart by the cry of the hounds, even afore him there was a great river, and the hart swam over; and as Sir Gawaine would follow after, there stood a knight over the other side, and said, Sir knight, come not over after this hart but if thou wilt joust with me.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

And therefore principally above all fowls of world they worship the owl; and when they have any of their feathers, they keep them full preciously instead of relics, and bear them upon their heads with great reverence; and they hold themselves blessed and safe from all perils while that they have them upon them, and therefore they bear their feathers upon their heads.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And then they all wist not where he was become; and Sir Gawaine had in manner espied where Sir Gareth rode, and then he rode after with all his might.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The accommodating temper of Polytheism might unite those various and remote deities; but the genuine Romans ahhorred the human sacrifices of Gaul and Germany.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The verdure of this country is not equal to that of England.—The pleasure-grounds are, in my opinion, not so well laid out according to the genius loci; nor are the lawns, and walks, and hedges kept in such delicate order.—The trees are planted in prudish rows, which have not such an agreeable natural effect, as when they are thrown into irregular groupes, with intervening glades; and firs, which they generally raise around their houses, look dull and funereal in the summer season.—I must confess, indeed, that they yield serviceable timber, and good shelter against the northern blasts; that they grow and thrive in the most barren soil, and continually perspire a fine balsam of turpentine, which must render the air very salutary and sanative to lungs of a tender texture.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He none the less indicates, when discussing sundry examples, why the principal theories, to which they have given rise, appear to him inadequate.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

If the pump or injector are running, of course you may let them run, and the boiler will gradually refill as the heat decreases.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

Mounting the horse he rode into the ground where the horses were assembling for the great race, and took his place among them.
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Cebriones, a country lout, By chance was gaping round about, To him the bully Hec.
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775

“When he’s sober, and in his right mind, I’ll talk to him,” said Pengelly, to himself; and there he sat, hour after hour, comforting himself by singing hymns in a low voice, giving them out first two lines at a time, after announcing number and tune, to an imaginary congregation gathered round; and this he kept up till the afternoon.
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

And when, some days later, she received a cordial, brotherly letter from Gregory, relating all that had occurred, a deep content stole into her heart, and she felt, with Miss Eulie, that all would eventually be well.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

The bird that will not sing, The bell that will not ring, The wheel that won’t go round about, The horse that will not spring, And the child that won’t be happy With what each day doth bring,— Now I call every one of these A naughty, useless thing.
— from Little Wideawake: A story book for little children by Barker, Sale, Mrs.

They don't like to be interfered with, or treated except with very great respect, and they have their own ideas about what is proper and what isn't, I can assure you.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth

He had been speaking with a continual increasing effort; he cast a hurried and fearful glance round as though he expected to see someone listening, and it was almost in a whisper that he went on, "You will find them in—" His agitation had become most painful to watch, and as he spoke the last words a convulsion passed over his face, and speech failing him, he sank back on his pillow.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner

On topmost boughs The glossy raven, and the hoarsevoiced crow, Rocked by the storm, erect their airy nests.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Aniwa, having no hills to attract and condense the clouds, suffers badly for lack of genial rains; and the heavy rains of hurricane and tempest seem to disappear as if by magic through the light soil and porous rock.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton