Whatever melting metals can conspire, Or breathing bellows, or the forming fire, Is freely yours: your anxious fears remove, And think no task is difficult to love.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

There was much censure cast on both Bouillon and Villars respectively by the antagonists of each chieftain; and the contest as to the cause of the defeat was almost as animated as the skirmish itself.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Hence the number, which no man can count, of bad books, those rank weeds of literature, which draw nourishment from the corn and choke it.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. by Arthur Schopenhauer

The specimens sent to me consisted chiefly of Balanus balanoides , perforatus , and Chthamalus stellatus .
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Two hundred soldiers, six or eight liquor shops,—the number varies from year to year,—three miles off a native village of perhaps one hundred and fifty souls, and dotting those intervening miles cabins chiefly occupied by "bootleggers" and go-betweens—that is the Tanana situation in a nutshell.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

To these coastal families, Halifax is not a mere cold city of business, but a “mother” to whom they can turn with the catch, be it great or small, and ask bread.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward