Odin immediately set out by a roundabout way, while Frigga, to outwit him, immediately despatched a swift messenger to warn Geirrod to beware of a man in wide mantle and broad-brimmed hat, as he was a wicked enchanter who would work him ill.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

No building could be more in harmony with the city's atmosphere of uninteresting prosperity than its Cathedral, and he who enters in search of beauty and repose, is doomed to miserable disappointment.
— from Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

Place ½ pint oysters in strainer over bowl and rinse with 2 tablespoons cold water, reserving all liquor.
— from For Luncheon and Supper Guests by Alice Bradley

A series of felicitous crosses develops an improved strain of blood, and reaches its maximum perfection at last in the large uncombed youth who goes to college and startles the hereditary class-leaders by striding past them all.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In stead of being "a rule in all grammars," it is (so far as I know) found only in these authors, and such as have implicitly copied it from Murray.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It needs the electric shock of contact and conflict with foreign races to startle the race out of its fatal repose and start it on new lines of progress by demanding, on pain of death, or at least of racial subordination, the introduction of new elements into its social order by a renewed exercise of the constructive imagination.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

We are no longer, like the western tribes, mere hunters living in shelters of boughs and roaming the forests.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

For, in spite of biographer and reviewers, Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first series of ‘Poems and ballads.’
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

10 p.m.—The Irrepressibles still eager to fish; lines untangled, hooks discovered; two fellows despatched with yawl in search of bait; a row by moonlight again proposed; we take observation—no moon!
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard

Buy no more, Ladies; buy no more; Shops were deceivers ever: One price in season, one before, And reasonable never.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 by Various