After these, But on the hether side a different sort From the high neighbouring Hills, which was thir Seat, Down to the Plain descended: by thir guise Just men they seemd, and all thir study bent To worship God aright, and know his works Not hid, nor those things lost which might preserve Freedom and Peace to men: they on the Plain Long had not walkt, when from the Tents behold A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay In Gems and wanton dress; to the Harp they sung Soft amorous Ditties, and in dance came on: The Men though grave, ey’d them, and let thir eyes Rove without rein, till in the amorous Net Fast caught, they lik’d, and each his liking chose; And now of love they treat till th’ Eevning Star Loves Harbinger appeerd; then all in heat They light the Nuptial Torch, and bid invoke Hymen, then first to marriage Rites invok’t; With Feast and Musick all the Tents resound.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

hetera gar esti phleps hê eis ekeino kataschizomenê mête tên genesin ek tês kardias autês mête tên tou haimatos echousa metalêpsin.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

And I should answer, “Yes, I am your slave; you give me the greatest enjoyment that can be had; there is not a woman in the world who possesses the attractions you have; you make me do anything, you are the queen of voluptuousness, of enjoyment.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

LICK, a blow; LICKING , a beating; “to put in big LICKS ,” a curious and common phrase meaning that great exertions are being made.— Dryden; North.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Democracies will be most subject to revolutions from the dishonesty of their demagogues; for partly, by informing against men of property, they induce them to join together through self-defence, for a common fear will make the greatest enemies unite; and partly by setting the common people against them: and this is what any one may continually see practised in many states.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Lick , a blow; LICKING , a beating; “to put in big LICKS ,” a curious and common phrase, meaning that great exertions are being made.—
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

They used to hang about him in those times, and lap over his wrists and down to his heels; but Tim, though he protested he had nigh killed himself with grief when I went away, had managed to grow enormously fat in my absence, and would have fitted almost into Daniel Lambert’s coat, or that of the vicar of Castle Brady, whom he served in the capacity of clerk.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

If Worge wur an objective it ud taake the Germans fifteen month to git into it, and we’d taake another fifteen month to git ’em out; and then they’d git in agaun, and it ud go on lik that till the plaace wur in shards.
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith

Moreover, the Great Eastern Railway crossed the river by a wooden bridge just north of the village of Sawbridgeworth, and it was necessary to ensure the safe passage of the last trains over it before destroying it to preclude the use of the railway by the enemy.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

This is done by acidifying duplicate samples with hydrochloric acid before and after the fermentation and measuring the gas evolved in each case.
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden

His courage, which had been shown in a thousand dare-devil, reckless acts, was known to all who manned the galleys; every captain and every cabin-boy could rehearse the exploits of Carausius.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

And in another yle are men that go ever uppon theyr knees marvaylosly, and have on every foote viii Toes....
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

Major Taliferro from the Falls of St. Anthony made the grand entry with his Sioux and Chippewas, four hundred strong, drums beating, flags flying.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

There was a score of automobiles and a number of traps and gigs about the entrance to the portion of the park that had been railed off for the festival, the small Britling boys had met some nursery visitors from Claverings House and were busy displaying skill and calm upon the roundabout ostriches, and less than four hundred miles away with a front that reached from Nancy to Liège more than a million and a quarter of grey-clad men, the greatest and best-equipped host the world had ever seen, were pouring westward to take Paris, grip and paralyse France, seize the Channel ports, invade England, and make the German Empire the master-state of the earth.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Mrs. Malony, the garrulous egg-woman, was at home; she expressed her surprise and delight at the advent of so many unexpected visitors.
— from The Adopting of Rosa Marie (A Sequel to Dandelion Cottage) by Carroll Watson Rankin

We went about eleven o’clock in the forenoon to the church of St Raphael, expecting to have seen many as curious as ourselves, but, by reason of the atrociousness of the act, now for the first 490 time known to be true, and the fear of Ras Michael threatening Gondar every day, not a living soul was there but a monk belonging to the church itself, who kept the key.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Though the effect of this custom is to produce real deformity and a miserable tottering gait, even foreigners naturally come to associate it with gentility and good breeding, and to estimate the character and position of women much as the Chinese do, by the size of their feet.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White