The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot—snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump—and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

76: When first on trees bourgeon the blossoms soft;" and Tennyson, In Memoriam, 115: "Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares," etc. 408.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

In corroboration of this statement we might cite many cases, if our space would permit, from the religious records of India, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, Mexico, Thibet, etc. Maia, mother of Sakia and Yasoda of Chrishna; Celestine, mother of the crucified Zulis; Chimalman, mother of Quex-alcote; Semele, mother of the Egyptian Bacchus, and Minerva, mother of the Grecian Bacchus; Prudence, mother of Hercules; Alcmene, mother of Alcides; Shing-Mon, mother-of Yu, and Mayence, mother of Hesus, were all as confidently believed to be pure, holy and chaste virgins, while giving birth to these Gods, sons of God, Saviors and sin-atoning Mediators, as was Mary, mother of Jesus, and long before her time.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The penal statutes form a very small proportion of the sixty-two books of the Code and Pandects; and in all judicial proceedings, the life or death of a citizen is determined with less caution or delay than the most ordinary question of covenant or inheritance.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And so she sat over-against me, and said, To be sure, Pamela, you have been very provoking with your tongue, to be sure you have, as well upon my nephew, (who is a man of quality too,) as me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He was still asleep, his mouth open, quite naked.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

With such facts before us, can we doubt that the many birds which are annually blown by gales across great spaces of ocean, and which annually migrate—for instance, the millions of quails across the Mediterranean—must occasionally transport a few seeds embedded in dirt adhering to their feet or beaks?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

While this scene was passing in the cabin of the man, one quite otherwise passed in the halls of the master.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In those good old days he, or any other member desiring to obstruct ordinary procedure, might, in the middle of questions, start a debate on any subject under the sun.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Sending and Receiving Mail We'll make one quick diversion from being OS-neuter here, to show you what it will look like to send and receive a mail message on a Unix system.
— from Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe

[785] We must not take it too seriously, if we read (in Platina, Vitae Pontiff. p. 310) that he kept at his court a sort of buffoon, the Florentine Greco, ‘hominem certe cujusvis mores, naturam, linguam cum maximo omnium qui audiebant risu facile exprimentem.’
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

I should like to call the dependence of my perceptual world on my point of observation “mathematical,” and its dependence on my organisation “qualitative.”
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

— Japanese Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now bourgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Department of Education

There you have millions of quick brains stifled in trumpery crafts.
— from The Power-House by John Buchan

Sent one pretty stiff cable as we all agreed that we must make ourselves quite clear upon the question of [Pg 286] guns and shell.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

Nevertheless, no one can study Mill's “Prolegomena” without being conscious of the fact, that the portion of them relating to the history of the text, as gathered from ecclesiastical writers, and the accumulation of that mass of quotations from the Fathers which stands below his Scripture text, must have been, what he asserts, the result of some years' labour (N. T. Proleg.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

The word ‘Caste,’ Dr. Wilson states, 1 is not of Indian origin, but is derived from the Portuguese casta , signifying race, mould or quality.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

A poor Puritan named Stubbs and a poor bookseller named Page published a pamphlet against the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to the French king’s brother, and tho the queen herself had said she would never marry, these unfortunate subjects were punished for their audacity by having their right hands cut off.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress