The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
— 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.

The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Jealous Man's Disease is of so malignant a Nature, that it converts all he takes into its own Nourishment.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The different rhythms or metres are named trochaic, iambic, &c., according to their fundamental feet.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The maxillæ are notched; the inferior corner is produced into a small step-formed projection.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

But yet, state your price for my amusement, now that I can no longer be enraged by your words."
— from The Reluctant Weapon by Howard L. Myers

Roman London, Saxon London, Elizabethan London, all fade, like Lamb's "dream-children," into the far-away past;—giving place to Victorian London,—as, jostled by a motley and not too immaculate crowd, you scramble sadly across the rickety gangway to the very common-place and unpalatial shore below London Bridge.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

The bird answered, Good master, the lightning, thunder, and rain, did so much disturb me all night, that I cannot tell how much I suffered by it.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

They refused to a man, and notwithstanding the imperative commands of the Duke of Montmorency the Lord Admiral of France, they compelled their own admiral to put back to the Downs.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

The man who did that must be a charming man, and next time I cross the Atlantic I shall hope to see him.”
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

To him the inhabitants of Miletus are not the Ionian colonists.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang

“Now blast your corn-shucking soul,” said the victor, a lad of about eighteen, as he arose from the ground, “come cuttin’ your shines ’bout me agin next time I come to the court-house will you?
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester