Specimen of Milton's spelling, from the Cambridge autograph manuscript. H2 anchor ON TIME (Set on a clock case) Fly envious Time till thou run out thy race call on the lazie leaden-stepping howres whose speed is but the heavie plummets pace & glut thy selfe wth what thy womb devoures Wch is no more then what is false & vaine & meerly mortall drosse so little is our losse so little is thy gaine for when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd & last of all thy greedie selfe consum'd 10 then long Aeternity shall greet our blisse wth an individuall kisse and Joy shall overtake us as a flood when every thing yt is sincerely good & pfectly divine with Truth, & Peace, & Love shall ever shine about the supreme throne of him t' whose happy-making sight alone when once our heav'nly-guided soule shall clime then all this earthie grossnesse quit 20 attir'd wth starres wee shall for ever sit Triumphing over Death, & Chance, & thee O Time.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

We waited a great while, though very impatient for their removing; and were very uneasy when, after long consultation, we saw them all start up and march down towards the sea; it seems they had such dreadful apprehensions of the danger of the place that they resolved to go on board the ship again, give their companions over for lost, and so go on with their intended voyage with the ship.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

“Tell young gent to look alive,” says guard, opening the hind-boot and shooting in the parcels after examining them by the lamps.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

He came forward into the light; upon his breast lay a slender girl of fifteen.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt —Of all peoples the Greek has dreamt most enchantingly the dream of life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than lost as she grew older.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

L. and S. give = OMOIOS, 'common to all'.]
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The Advancement of Learning is, as it were, to use his own language, “a small globe of the 48 intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover with a note and description of those facts which seem to me not constantly occupate or not well converted by the labor of man.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

“Ay,” said Fitzurse, “such is indeed the fashion of Richard—a true knight-errant he, and will wander in wild adventure, trusting the prowess of his single arm, like any Sir Guy or Sir Bevis, while the weighty affairs of his kingdom slumber, and his own safety is endangered.—What dost thou propose to do De Bracy?” “I?—I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he refused them—I will lead them to Hull, seize on shipping, and embark for Flanders; thanks to the bustling times, a man of action will always find employment.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"So long as she goes off my wharf, I don't mind where she goes," I ses.
— from Husbandry Deep Waters, Part 6. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

TO LESLEY Burns sang of bonny Lesley As she gaed o'er the border,— Gaed like vain Alexander, To spread her conquests farther.
— from The Old Soldier's Story: Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

Thus we should naturally think of planes of surface in modelled work, and the delicate play of light and shade, getting our equivalent for colour in the design and contrast of varied surfaces.
— from Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane

So after we had prayed the prayer before eating, the people arranged themselves everywhere, in larger and smaller groups, on the green grass or the brown heather, and with giving of thanks enjoyed the food they had brought along with them.
— from Pine Needles by Susan Warner

At length a sunbeam glided over the lake, and it shone like burnished silver.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Señor Vincente Lopez, a Spanish gentleman of Montevideo, in 1872 published a work entitled "Les Races Aryennes in Pérou," in which he attempts to prove that the great Quichua language, which the Incas imposed on their subjects over a vast extent of territory, and which is still a living tongue in Peru and Bolivia, is really a branch of the great Aryan or Indo-European speech.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

He walked along Kensington Gore, and the clustering confused lights of street and house, white and golden and orange and pale lilac, the moving lamps and shining glitter of the traffic, the luminous interiors of omnibuses, the reflection of carriage and hoarding, the fading daylight overhead, the phantom trees to the left, the deepening shadows and blacknesses among the houses on his right, the -195- bobbing heads of wayfarers, were just for him the stir and hue and texture of fairyland.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Until Darwin's time the work was confined to the determination of the facts of the science, and chiefly aimed at settling the spheres of distribution of the existing large and small groups of living things.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel