“Now, by the five corners of my beard!” shouted the Pharisee, who belonged to the sect called The Dashers (that little knot of saints whose manner of dashing and lacerating the feet against the pavement was long a thorn and a reproach to less zealous devotees-a stumbling-block to less gifted perambulators)—“by the five corners of that beard which, as a priest, I am forbidden to shave!-have we lived to see the day when a blaspheming and idolatrous upstart of Rome shall accuse us of appropriating to the appetites of the flesh the most holy and consecrated elements?
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The rigid bar is none other than a conventionalised form of the actual torse, and is perhaps little more at variance with the reality than is our conventionalised method of depicting a lambrequin.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Suidas, speaking of Hezekiah, that there was a great book of old, of King Solomon's writing, which contained medicines for all manner of diseases, and lay open still as they came into the temple: but Hezekiah king of Jerusalem, caused it to be taken away, because it made the people secure, to neglect their duty in calling and relying upon God, out of a confidence on those remedies.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then when one has passed through a great extent of this rugged country, there dwell in the skirts of lofty mountains men who are said to be all bald-headed from their birth, male and female equally, and who have flat noses and large chins and speak a language of their own, using the Scythian manner of dress, and living on the produce of trees.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Soon after the Albany convention Lucy Stone wrote: "God bless you, Susan dear, for the brave heart that will work on even in the midst of discouragement and lack of helpers.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“My own disappointment and loss in her is very great; but, as for poor James, I suppose he will hardly ever recover it.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I am not able however to give my final Sentence against this Diversion; and am of Mr. Cowley's Opinion 4 , that so much of Dancing at least as belongs to the Behaviour and an handsome Carriage of the Body, is extreamly useful, if not absolutely necessary.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

ligwa n measurement of distance: a league.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

an its ravages, causing direct and indirect loss of many millions of dollars, and leading to the abandonment of grape-growing in some parts of southern California.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

Having thus briefly laid before your Majesty the results of our labours, it now only remains for us to convey to your Majesty our dutiful and loyal acknowledgments of the support and encouragement which we have derived throughout this extensive and laborious task from the gracious favour and countenance of your Majesty.
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist

These may become very serious if neglected, and even if the woman is being doctored, unless, at the same time, she regularly follows the proper healthy method of dieting and living.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

It is only innoxious to reasonable beings, for they never listen to it, or when obliged to do so, are no more amused by its sayings than by the singing of a tea-kettle; but these being few in number, compared with the lovers of small talk, to whom its company is always acceptable, it is a dangerous animal, —— mother of deceit and lies.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Meanwhile, order dinner, and let me and my friend stay to share it."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

The Marquis of Douro and Lord Charles Wellesley’s Tale to his little King and Queen; completed Dec. 2nd, 1829.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A murmur of displeasure against La Goualeuse, not unmixed with threats, arose from the assembled crowd.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

For this man, when he came to our ordinary method of diet and life, tho he was sober enough, lost much of his strength and agility.
— from Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner by Woodes Rogers