Furwahr, lieber Junker, ich lasz euch wissen, das da ihr mich von fragt, ist ein arm und erbarmlich Ding, und wer viel darvon zu sagen, welches euch verdrussig zu horen, und mir zu erzelen wer, wiewol die Poeten und Oratorn vorzeiten haben gesagt in ihren Spruchen und Sentenzen, dasz die gedechtniss des Elends und Armuth vorlangst erlitten ist eine grosse Lust.’
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

[28] Somewhat elaborate effects can be rendered in glass by very laborious engraving, whereby different depths of cutting are attained; but such work is the result of great labour, and rarely produces an effect proportionate to the toil expended upon it; and if a bottle so engraved is filled with a coloured wine, the entire beauty of its engraving is destroyed.
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

Lord Evelyn was deeply distressed.
— from Sunrise by William Black

Since then, statistics have been obtained to a large extent which deal directly with the heights of human beings.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

It was a morning when the heart of man should be stirred with the joy of life, when lungs expand with deep draughts of the earth’s
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

This calm lasted eight whole days, during which they made but little progress.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Like everything which Daly did, the entertainment was perfect.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

“That trio has taken from my hands the reins of State, for which I waited long while the old woman filled my place,” she said gloomily, glancing toward Chenonceaux, the chateau she had lately exchanged with Diane de Poitiers against that of Chaumont.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Science of Spirit is thus not one whit less scientific than the Science of Matter; and, moreover, it starts from the same initial fact, the fact of a living energy which defies definition or explanation, wherever we find it; but it differs from the science of matter in that it contemplates this energy under an aspect of responsive [10] intelligence which does not fall within the scope of physical science, as such.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

Then she went back into the black little entry which did duty for hall, and mounted the steep, narrow stairs with a lagging step.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann