Man likes to lie abed late—there he gets up once or twice in the night to perform some religious office, and gets up finally for the day at two in the morning.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague[obs3]. invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance &c (imagine) 515; cry "wolf!" dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

My sire I seek, where'er the voice of fame Has told the glories of his noble name, The great Ulysses; famed from shore to shore For valour much, for hardy suffering more.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

As they advanced they got under fire from batteries guarding the east, or lower, end of the city, and of musketry.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He has given us fire from heaven!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The same writer has given us, from Fitz-Stephen, a singular act of cruelty perpetrated on the clergy by Geoffrey, the father of Henry II.
— 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

batad n sorghum, k.o. coarse grass used for forage: Andropogon sorghum .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Whipping (fig. 22 ).—Whipping is another form of gathering, used for fine materials.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Shells filled with explosive or incendiary mixtures were standard for mortars, after 1550, but they did not come into general use for flat-trajectory weapons until early in the nineteenth century, whereafter the term "shell" gradually won out over "bomb."
— from Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Albert C. Manucy

Good upland for farms, and extensive areas of marsh near the head of the tidal stream, afforded favorable means for the development of his farming operations.
— from The Land of Evangeline: The Authentic Story of Her Country and Her People With Evangeline by H. W. Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In other words, by what inner law shall we shape our inquiries so as to gain useful facts for our intended induction?—Nay, we may further ask: What inner Being is to settle the questions, criticize them, and judge the final issue?
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

1: So Vespasian marched to the city Gadara, and took it upon the first onset, because he found it destitute of a considerable number of men grown up fit for war.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

dost thou grant us fairer fields, and wider, for the whirlwind to lay waste?
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

When we seek to God for his grace and power to convince us—to sanctify us—to reclaim us from our sinful wanderings—to guard us from false principles—to remove prejudice from us—to build us up in holiness and faith unto his heavenly kingdom—to enable us to do all his will, to submit to his government—to comport with his Providential dispensations, we are to improve all our best endeavours to live and act accordingly.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

And the others repeated in chorus; "Forage, forage, give us forage for our horses!"
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

" "He will not, Danny Rugg!" exclaimed Nan, who had gone up front for a minute to speak to some of the older girls.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope

When we pass with Dante from the Inferno to Purgatory, we have indeed more light and air, but no more liberty; being now confined on various ledges cut into a mountain side, with a precipice on one hand and a vertical wall on the other; and, lest here also we should make any mistake about magnitudes, we are told that the ledges were eighteen feet wide, [73] and that the ascent from one to the other was by steps, made like those which go up from Florence to the church of San Minieto.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin