Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his Lady!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

he natural Bent of his own great Genius (equal, if not superior, to some of the Best of theirs;) would certainly have led him to read and study them with so much Pleasure, that some of their fine Images would naturally have insinuated themselves into, and been mix’d with, his own Writings: so that his not copying, at least, something from them, may be an Argument of his never having read them.”
— from Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald

The first thing to do now, however, was to get the boy to bed; so with the aid of Ann's hot oatmeal gruel, George Edward was assisted by father and mother on either side, up to his pretty room, where he was rubbed down, pretty much as one would perform that same operation on a tired horse, till each separate and distinct joint seemed supple and elastic as was their ordinary condition, and the boy was tumbled into bed, fast asleep before his head touched the pillow.
— from The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 by Various

How beautiful beneath the bright blue sky The billows heave, one glowing green expanse, Save where along the bending line of shore Such hue is thrown, as when the peacock's neck Assumes its proudest tint of amethyst, Embathed in emerald glory!
— from Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands by Marianne Farningham

It is found to develop now and then in cattle that are fed upon sour substances, distillery swill, house or garden garbage, etc.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

She knew the peculiar character of some of her neighbors—how lightly meum and tuum sat upon their fears or consciences—but she kept no guard except her own good gray eyes and dauntless heart over that accumulating pile of little sixpences, for there was but one spirit as bold as she in all this region of the world—"
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend