Many other advantages might be enumerated.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

It may be asked—What sort of God is this who works on the mind of a man by exciting promises, and having done so, and having it fixed in His purposes that the man is to do the crime, yet treats it when done as guilt?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

Cupid was wandering with his mother over a meadow, beautifully enamelled with flowers "all fragrance and of various hues," when, in a playful mood, the youthful deity challenged Venus to see which could gather the greatest number in the least time.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

" At this I fell to marvelling that so much of agony might be endured in so little time.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

In a treatise on the subject of lameness, the bones chiefly concerned and most often affected must be especially considered.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

He has access to scores of avenues where the Gospel of Christ never enters; but under the cover of human interests he takes the field with our Lord Jesus and His ministers, offering a more beautiful, excellent, easier and successful way.
— from Is the Devil a Myth? by C. F. (Charles Franklin) Wimberly

It wouldn’t be much of a monument, but enough to tell the tale.
— from With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters by Lewis B. France

Travelled till 10 P. M. Came into camp at Byhalia, Marshall County, Miss., having travelled about ten miles on a most beautiful evening.
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones