He lay in agony of suffering, thrown back into unreality, like a man thrown overboard into a sea, to swim till he sinks, because there is no hold, only a wide, weltering sea.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Of these, believe me, the race is utterly lost and quite extinct, as the women say; for they do lament continually that there are none extant now of those great, &c. You know the rest of the song.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Ilain ug lamísa ang mga pínu, Set another table for the children.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It swaggered, scowling, back and forth on its short legs just as it had seen her do on her long ones, and now and then snarling viciously, exposing its teeth, with a threatening lift of its upper lip and bristling moustache; and when it thought it was impressing the visitors, it would spread its mouth wide and do that screechy cry which it meant
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

We should say that while the manifest content of the dream is nonsensical, its true or latent content is usually logical and expressive of some wish that has been suppressed in the waking state.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

restrained, constrained; imprisoned &c.v.; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time &c. (prisoner) 754; cohibitive[obs3]; coactive &c. (compulsory) 744[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I've given it up long ago."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Among the savage nations of hunters and fishers, every individual who is able to work is more or less employed in useful labour, and endeavours to provide, as well as he can, the necessaries and conveniencies of life, for himself, and such of his family or tribe as are either too old, or too young, or too infirm, to go a-hunting and fishing.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The consuls now no longer carried on the war together, since each blamed the other for the disaster, but Junius went on ravaging a portion of Samnium, while Rufinus inflicted injury upon Lucanians and Bruttians.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

A year later we find René with his wife in the garden of an inn near Paris; he has by this time become a successful playwright, an unfaithful husband, and an industrious drunkard, and after an unfriendly conversation with his wife, he proceeds to inaugurate an intrigue with the mistress of a friend of his, who is unfortunately lunching at the same inn.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Snow mass gained at the sun-shielded headwall is usually lost as melt at the exposed snout.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

The run-off is usually large and is a serious loss, especially in dry-farming regions, where the absence of luxuriant vegetation, the somewhat hard, sun-baked soils, and the numerous drainage channels, formed by successive torrents, combine to furnish the rains with an easy escape into the torrential rivers.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe

When I remember, too, that here I see none of the worst features of this system: that the slaves on this estate are not bought and sold, nor let out to hire to other masters; that they are not cruelly starved or barbarously beaten, and that members of one family are not parted from each other for life, and sent to distant plantations in other States,—all which liabilities (besides others, and far worse ones) belong of right, or rather of wrong, to their condition as slaves, and are commonly practiced throughout the southern half of this free country,—I remain appalled at a state of things in which human beings are considered fortunate who are only condemned to dirt, ignorance, unrequited labor, and, what seems to me worst of all, a dead level of general degradation, which God and Nature, by endowing some above others, have manifestly forbidden.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

DATCHERY’S WIG Datchery wears a wig, and it is unusually large, as though a woman’s hair were concealed under it.
— from The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir

his facsimile, however (ch. vii. 35), seems somewhat rough, though Tischendorf (who has inspected the codex) says [pg 147] that its uncials look as if written by a Copt, from their resemblance to Coptic letters 186 : the shapes of alpha and iota are specially noticeable.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

and clean it up like a June pink, in a day or two.”
— from Nelly's First Schooldays by Josephine Franklin

Then came rustic feoffs, real in character and consisting in uncultivated land assigned by the victors to the conquered for their sustenance, while they themselves kept the cultivated land: these feoffs were called by the feudalists, with a new elegance of Latinity and an equally sound historical truth, "beneficia."
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

"You kept it under lock and key?"
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White