Has this anything like the deadly aspect and facies Hippocratica which the false diagnostic of our state physician has given to our trade in general? Has he not heard of the iron-works of such magnitude even in their cradle which are set up on the Carron, and which at the same time have drawn nothing from Sheffield, Birmingham, or Wolverhampton?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

He was no facile smiler, but neither was he passionate or suspicious.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

These must not be trusted, but the search must be made in districts and soils, yet not in depressions, where those signs are found growing not from seed, but springing up naturally of themselves.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Neither is it in God's esteem the diminution of his glory, when honourable things are spoken of good men and worthy magistrates; which if I now first should begin to do, after so fair a progress of your laudable deeds, and such a long obligement upon the whole realm to your indefatigable virtues, I might be justly reckoned among the tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise ye.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

Bull (who is now fairly savage): Buat apa guna hati-nya?
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

6. Caesar sociīs imperāvit nē fīnitimis suīs bellum īnferrent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

When we must pass an open place, quickness was not all, but a swift judgment not only of the lie of the whole country, but of the solidity of every stone on which we must set foot; for the afternoon was now fallen so breathless that the rolling of a pebble sounded abroad like a pistol shot, and would start the echo calling among the hills and cliffs.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

No family should be without it, but care must be taken to keep it out of the way of young children, as, if swallowed, it is poisonous.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

[Pg 154] that he fled thither, a fugitive, not from service, but from justice.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Not finding sufficient boards to close up the entrance securely, the ladies went to the further end of the place to get some which they saw there.
— from Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days by Anna W. Ford Piper

Engineer Daza and Governor Cendoya decided that the new fort should be erected on the west shore of the bay by the side of the old fort, a site which took into account every natural defense feature of the harbor.
— from The Building of Castello de San Marcos National Park Service Interpretive Series, History No. 1 by Albert C. Manucy

The room was in the second story of a small house, better kept than most of its neighbors, and contained a comfortable bed, with other needed furniture, scanty, but clean and good.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

It might be the “bonny day”—the mild air and the sunshine, and the new fair scene before her, or it might be the knowledge that after much care, and many perils, they were all safe together in this quiet place where they were to find a home; she scarce knew what it was, but her heart felt strangely light, and lips and eyes smiled as she stood there holding one of Marian’s hands in hers, while the other wandered through the curls of Will’s golden hair.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

So that, along with Olaf or some way ahead of him, came immeasurable roaring waste of waters upon Knut's negligent fleet; shattered, broke, and stranded many of his ships, and was within a trifle of destroying the Golden Dragon herself, with Knut on board.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour--flirting--and if carried far enough it is punishable by law.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

After this there did not seem to be need for speech; but the man walked his horse slowly, hoping that it might take forever before they reached home.
— from The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

He had set out betimes that morning, so as to be alone with his sweetheart, who was to go along with him (she is Steffen of Zempin his daughter, not farmer Steffen, but the lame gouty Steffen), and had got to Pudgla about five, where he found no one in the ale-house save old Lizzie Kolken, who straightway hobbled up to the castle; and when his sweetheart was gone home again, time hung heavy on his hands, and he climbed over the wall into the castle garden, where he threw himself on his face behind a hedge to sleep.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

I never felt so bad about myself before, not as bad as that.
— from Plays of Near & Far by Lord Dunsany