Don’t be afraid of speaking—all these ladies and gentlemen have seen far stranger people than yourself; you don’t astonish them .
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Take of the Bark of Caper roots, the roots of Orris, Fennel, Parsley, Bruscus, Chicory, Sparagus, Cypress, of each half an ounce, the leaves of Harts-tongue, Schænanth, Tamarisk, of each half a handful, sweet Fennel seed half an ounce, infuse them in three pounds of Posca, which is something sour, afterwards boil it till half be consumed, strain it, and with Honey and sugar clarified, of each half a pound, boil it to the thickness of Honey.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Next, crossing from Leo into Virgo, and advancing as far as the bosom of her garment, he still further shortens his circuit, making his course equal to what it was in Taurus.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Independently of our not finding fossil remains of such infinitely numerous connecting links, it may be objected, that time will not have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having been effected very slowly through natural selection.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I have seldom felt so happy as when I got your wire asking me to meet you at Harwich with the car.
— from His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; but he did say that such an attempt would be venial; and, if the aspirant did not go so far as to declare war, and erect a standard in the kingdom, his fault ought to be regarded with an indulgent eye.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And he went on, still smiling pleasantly, but seeing an assistant of the military hospital coming towards him, he suddenly frowned, stopped him, and asked: “Is there any one in the hospital?”
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His face was pale with the pain of that fruitless passion, and his voice betrayed how hard he strove for self-control, as he said hurriedly: "You need not suffer: this mistake has given me the happiest hours of my life, and I am better for having known so sweet and true a woman.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

While the house and property of Odysseus, during his long absence, enjoys no public [p. 91] protection, [151] those unprincipled chiefs, who consume his substance, find sympathy rather than disapprobation among the people of Ithaka.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

So we have Horsley , Cowley , Hartley , Shipley (from "sheep").
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

Redwald did not appear, and they became uneasy at his prolonged absence, until, sending to his room, they found him suffering from sudden, but severe illness; which, as the leech shortly decided, would absolutely prevent his travelling that day.
— from Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

Although the spots thus sometimes differ in colour, they strongly tend to be tan-coloured; this is proved by my having seen four spaniels, a setter, two Yorkshire shepherd dogs, a large mongrel, and some fox-hounds, coloured black and white, with not a trace of tan-colour, excepting the spots over the eyes, and sometimes a little on the feet.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

A cyclopean and dazzling staircase thronged by moving angelic shapes, harping mute harps, stretched from sea to sky, melting into the milky way like the tail of a starry serpent.
— from Visionaries by James Huneker

They had started for St. Nazaire with a sum of money—twenty thousand francs, locked in the private strong-box of the Countess—to be distributed among the soldiers of Chanzy; and they had never returned.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Little love had she for Shaun, and she made him work hard.
— from Shaun O'Day of Ireland by Madeline Brandeis

Elsewhere he exhorts the pedestrian to assert his rights:— “Let not the chairman, with assuming stride, Press near the wall, and rudely thrust thy side; The laws have set him bounds; his servile feet Should ne’er encroach where posts defend the street.”
— from Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution by Ralph Straus