[2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We have put the subscription price just as low as possible, so as to be within the reach of all.
— from The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14 by Various

To this desire for public happiness is joined a lively and profound sentiment for my liberator.
— from Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France by Rupert Sargent Holland

Brought up at the College of [Pg 166] the Jesuits at Laflèche, a prolonged sojourn in the famous Hermitage of Caen set the seal of a militant mysticism upon his life.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

The cool sarcastic villany of Aaron (a mood hit off nowhere out of Shakespere, except in Middleton's De Flores, and not fully there) is the point on which I should chiefly put the finger to justify at least a partial Shakesperian authorship.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

The degree of impatient anxiety under which he had laboured had caused him to make the two first days' journeys as long as possible, so that not above ten or twelve miles, or at most fifteen, lay between him and his own château, when he set out on that third morning from the inn.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Confidit vero Sanctitas Sua memoratos Presbyteros, qua opere, qua exemplo, qua sermone, in vinea Domini sub directione et jurisdictione Antistitum locorum, ad præscriptum SS.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Patrons of travellers, women, and children, they bear the semblance of a shaven priest with benevolent countenance, whose neck is generally encircled with a [53] child’s bib of coloured wool, while his hand holds an emblematic jewel, a lotus, a pilgrim’s staff, an incense-box, a rosary, or sometimes an infant.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

I have written, with the aid of bloudie Jack, a long and peculiarly solemn paper on the technical elements of style.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899 by Various

He wanted it to last just as long as possible, so he lay there thinking about it, and wondering what would happen first.
— from Ole Mammy's Torment by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

If a succession of views of the same object in motion is made, with the moving object in each consecutive figure changed just a little, and progressively so in a constantly advancing attitude in a definite movement, and those different positions are rapidly presented in sequence to the eye in detached views, the figures appear to constantly move through the changing position.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn