Then we heard some large ones go off like drums and fifes, and others like clarions and trumpets.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

To the true votaries of these love orgies grossness of language is a stimulant to passion.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

[946] Jupiter Lucetius, or God of light.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

For in all other diseases of the soul, as love of money, love of glory, or love of pleasure, people at any rate attain the desired object: but it is the cruel fate of talkative people to desire hearers but not to get them, for everyone flees from them with headlong speed; and if people are sitting or walking about in any public place, 545 and see one coming they quickly pass the word to one another to shift quarters.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I see thee what thou art, For thou, the latest-left of all my knights, In whom should meet the offices of all, Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The Lady of Greyham; or, Low in a Low Place.
— from S. W. Partridge & Co. Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books, 1904 by England) S. W. Partridge & Co. (London

Italicized entries are names of languages or groups of languages.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

One generation of men, like one generation of leaves, becomes the fertilizer of the next; failures only enrich the soil or make smoother the way.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

It is said that nearly every woman suffers with a laceration of greater or less extent at her first labor.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

A chemical asymmetry will induce an inequality of surface-tension, which will lead directly to a modification of form; the chemical asymmetry may in turn be due to a process of electrolysis in a polarised electrical field; and again the chemical heterogeneity may be intensified into a chemical “polarity,” by the tendency of certain substances to seek a locus of greater or less surface-energy.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

In dialogue, a link from a speaker’s name generally means that the note applies to the entire line or group of lines.
— from Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

[Pg 264] to print an extract from the poem on his own life, descriptive of the games celebrated upon the ice of Esthwaite by all who were able to skate: the mimic chases of hare and hounds, pursued long after the last orange gleam of light had died away from the western horizon—oftentimes far into the night; a circumstance which does not speak much for the discipline of the schools, or rather, perhaps, does speak much for the advantages of a situation so pure, and free from the usual perils of a town, as could allow of a discipline so lax.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey