No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You may refer to the deeds or celebrity which have made the name so desirable, and also express your sense of the greatness of the favor, and the obligation the granting of it will confer.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended; nor was I carried up the country to the emperor’s court, as the rest of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his business.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Praetextatus, a robed gentleman in Plutarch, would not sit down at a feast, because he might not sit highest, but went his ways all in a chafe.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having the worst of the argument, then, rallying again, he answered the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his limited information would allow: “I am no scholar, and I care not who knows it; but, judging from what I have seen, at deer chases and squirrel hunts, of the sparks below, I should think a rifle in the hands of their grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and a good flint-head might be, if drawn with Indian judgment, and sent by an Indian eye.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But to my astonishment he leaped up, dashed at me, striking out right and left, and the next minute there would have been an angry fight on the way, if the door had not suddenly darkened and a voice which I recognised as Mr Brymer’s exclaimed— “Hullo!
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

“I wasn't born yesterday, Morty, and I'm not so desperately asinine as you seem to think,” was the besotted one's summing-up.
— from A Fool for Love by Francis Lynde

Across the far end of the cavern, with a grinding and crashing noise—a noise so dreadful and awe-inspiring that we all trembled, and Job actually sank to his knees—there flamed out an awful cloud or pillar of fire, like a rainbow many-coloured, and like the lightning bright.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Even if we were to be seen and tracked, they will not seek donkeys and a van in Venice, where there are no such things.”
— from The Italian Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

In a majority of cases no other effect has been perceptible than slight nausea, some diarrhœa, and a gradual but very uniform distaste to the menstruum.”
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

The old witch now sat down again and took from beneath her cape a small pad, a long quill pen and a queer little bottle filled with milky white fluid.
— from Hallowe'en at Merryvale by Alice Hale Burnett

The two disgruntled spacemen turned quickly and walked to the nearest slidewalk, disappearing around a building.
— from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell