Chiron si volse in su la destra poppa, e disse a Nesso: <>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Indeed, so little does poetry depend for its effect on the power of raising sensible images, that I am convinced it would lose a very considerable part of its energy, if this were the necessary result of all description.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"I see," laughed De Poincy, "lovely woman has pursued you till you fight shy.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

I should like dancing parties a little oftener; they are much more amusing than your solemn dinner parties."
— from My Mother's Rival Everyday Life Library No. 4 by Charlotte M. Brame

Letourneau , L'évolution du mariage , 117, 128, who holds that the ceremonial of capture especially symbolizes the subjection of woman "achetée ou cédée par les parents; il sanctionnait les droits, presque toujours excessifs, que l'époux acquérait sur l'épousée."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

In Ibla this orifice is seated lower down ( Pl. IV , fig.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin