These words might with very little alteration be ascribed to the subject of which this volume is supposed—indeed hoped—to be a handbook.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The wind frolicked with the rigging, the screw throbbed, the waves lashed, the hammocks creaked, but the ear had long ago become accustomed to these sounds, and it seemed that everything around was asleep and silent.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Miss puny little Edy’s countenance fell to no slight extent and Gerty could see by her looking as black as thunder that she was simply in a towering rage though she hid it, the little kinnatt, because that shaft had struck home for her petty jealousy and they both knew that she was something aloof, apart, in another sphere, that she was not of them and never would be and there was somebody else too that knew it and saw it so they could put that in their pipe and smoke it.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Then lower is Maiden lane, which runneth west to the north end of Gutherons lane, and up the said lane on the east side thereof, till against Kery lane, and back again: then the said Maiden lane, on the north side, goeth up to Staining lane, and up a part thereof, on the east side, to the farthest north part of Haberdashers’ hall, and back again to Wood street; [261] and there lower down to Silver street, which is of this ward, till ye come to the east end of St. Olave’s church, on the south side, and to Munkes
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I had long hair and they cut it off like a boy and tried to sell me, but I told them men what looks at me, the men cut my hair off and stole me.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Provide several frames of the same size as the aperture, covered with the same kind of gauze, and delineate upon the gauze different figures, such as landscapes and buildings, analogous to the scenes which you intend to exhibit by means of small figures representing men and animals.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger

Some of the blossom-heads may also be sprinkled over the surface, where they will live and bloom all through the summer.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But the boys only laughed, and began again the taunting song.
— from Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Emma C. Dowd

It was a relief to him to escape this life and brightness, and to take shelter in the gloom of his study, where the shutters were closed, and only a faint glimmer of day crept through a chink in the shrunken woodwork.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

As for the other point hinted in this same Instance, where it seemes that Benonamico understands the same not only of a piece of wood, shaped in the forme of a Vessell, but also of massie Wood, which filled, scilicet , as I believe, he would say, soaked and steeped in Water, goes finally to the bottom that happens in some porose Woods, which, while their Porosity is replenished with Air, or other Matter less grave than Water, are Masses specificially less grave than the said Water, like as is that Viall of Glass whilest it is full of Air: but when, such light Matter departing, there succeedeth Water into the same Porosities and Cavities, there results a compound of Water and Glass more grave than a like Mass of Water: but the excess of its Gravity consists in the Matter of the Glass, and not in the Water, which cannot be graver than it self: so that which remaines of the Wood, the [Pg 23] Air of its Cavities departing, if it shall be more grave in specie than Water, fil but its Porosities with Water, and you shall have a Compost of Water and of Wood more grave than Water, but not by vertue of the Water received into and imbibed by the Porosities, but of that Matter of the Wood which remains when the Air is departed: and being such it shall, according to the Doctrine of Archimedes , goe to the bottom, like as before, according to the same Doctrine it did swim.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

He was born at Toledo, left his native land of Spain before 1140 and led until his death a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt, Italy (Rome, Lucca, Mantua,Verona), Southern France(Narbonne, Beziers), Northern France (Dreux), England (London), and back again to the South of France.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

“Darkness and light are both alike to thee,” says David in another sense, Psal. cxxxix.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

It is by the work of life, and by action, that this separation is effected, created, accentuated, and fixed.
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

"Be tranquil, then, my love, and be assured that these sentiments are as unchanging in my soul as the immortal attachment which I bear for you and for my children; if there be any sacrifice which they cost me, it is being separated from you.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott