Behold how nature, having a fervent desire, after its production of plants, trees, shrubs, herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages (in their several kinds or sorts, at least, although the individuals perish) unruinable, and in an everlasting being, hath most curiously armed and fenced their buds, sprouts, shoots, and seeds, wherein the above-mentioned perpetuity consisteth, by strengthening, covering, guarding, and fortifying them with an admirable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, which serve them instead of strong, fair, and natural codpieces.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Meantime the horsemen, as many as were able, kept on securing a landing all down the river, and were joining Alexander’s forces.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

my dear!—what can they know of such a love as draws us together?
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the first place, the Kirk of Scotland, at least according to her book of discipline, recognises no clergyman who does not perform the whole of his duties in his own person.
— from The Modern Athens A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital. by Robert Mudie

"She's 'High Price,' and Miss Lucy's 'Low Price,' 'cause she's so high and mighty and tall and everything, and Miss Lucy's kind o' short and little and so darling, and they ain't any relation either.
— from Polly of the Hospital Staff by Emma C. Dowd

Take a view of them from the opening seed on the surface sending a downward shoot, to the loftiest and the largest trees rising up and blooming in wild luxuriance: some side by side, others separate; some curved and knotty, others straight as lances; all, in beautiful gradation, fulfilling the mandates they had received from Heaven and, though condemned to die, still never failing to keep up their species till time shall be no more.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

The night is too fine to waste asleep; besides, you know, one should always look at ruins by moonlight.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"That's what I said and what I'll keep on saying as long as I have the breath to speak my honest mind.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

Ledwich divides them into several eras; first, old Danish forts surrounded with earthen works, to which was afterwards added a keep of stone and lime, and sometimes a circular wall; then piles of building encompassed by a rampart, afterwards called a Bawn , and imitated by later colonists; then houses with battlements and turrets, flankers, &c.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

1. Behead a kind of sword, and leave a fluid for burning.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

But bars and locks could not keep out such a Lothario; and, a letter and a rope-ladder having been discovered, the lady’s family applied to the Baron d’Ugeon, one of their relatives and an expert swordsman, to bring the youth to reason.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen