There be those as much taken with Michael Angelo's, Raphael de Urbino's, Francesco Francia's pieces, and many of those Italian and Dutch painters, which were excellent in their ages; and esteem of it as a most pleasing sight, to view those neat architectures, devices, escutcheons, coats of arms, read such books, to peruse old coins of several sorts in a fair gallery; artificial works, perspective glasses, old relics, Roman antiquities, variety of colours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If not a deep enough color, add a very little cochineal.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Jandro opened his lips hesitantly as if to speak, then suddenly closed them tightly and a new and dreadful expression came upon his face.
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones

Of all earthly things sleep does the most to place things in their true proportions, calming excited nerves and dispelling exaggerated cares.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He there repeats the process, and he finds that the pole has now a different elevation, corresponding to the different latitude.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

Now anger deserves eternal condemnation; for our Lord said (Matt. 5:22): "Whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment": and a gloss on this passage says that "the three things mentioned there, namely judgment, council, and hell-fire, signify in a pointed manner different abodes in the state of eternal damnation corresponding to various sins."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Both Fielding and Smollett were of the hearty British "beef-and-beer" school; their novels are downright, energetic, coarse, and high-blooded; low life, physical life, runs riot through their pages—tavern brawls, the breaking of pates, and the off-hand courtship of country wenches.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

She had a vague idea that the nobility adopted different evening clothes from the ordinary rank and file.
— from Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins

As though his position was not already difficult enough, Christophe chose that moment to quarrel with his publisher.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

[13] "Unde non agriculturae delegit exercitia colere, sed potius, quae sagacioris animi sunt, rudimenta studuit arripiendo exercere."
— from The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne