139 S L A W K E N B E R G I U S’s T A L E I T was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Monotony is prevented by the occasional use of a light or feminine ending—a syllable on which the voice does not or cannot rest; e.g. — "Then choosing out few words most horrible."
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

But as there is a method not only of acquiring money but also of investing it so as to yield an income to meet our continuously recurring expenses—both for the necessities and for the more refined comforts of life—so there must be a method of gaining glory and turning it to account.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hic ubi cognatorum opibus curisque refectus Expulit elleboro morbum bilemque meraco, Et redit ad sese: Pol me occidistis, amici, Non servastis, ait; cui sic extorta valuptas, Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus Error.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Through the frontier towns there was a continual passage of convoys, returning empty or loaded with prisoners and wounded.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Hardly any one can remain entirely optimistic after reading the confession of the murderer at Brockton the other day: how, to get rid of the wife whose continued existence bored him, he inveigled her into a desert spot, shot her four times, and then, as she lay on the ground and said to him, "You didn't do it on purpose, did you, dear?" replied, "No, I { 161} didn't do it on purpose," as he raised a rock and smashed her skull.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In all great successes we can trace the power of concentration, riveting every faculty upon one unwavering aim; perseverance in the pursuit of an undertaking in spite of every difficulty; and courage which enables one to bear up under all trials, disappointments, and temptations.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“The road will be uneasy to find,” answered Gurth, who broke silence for the first time, “and the family of Cedric retire early to rest.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

No one can rise even from the most cursory perusal without clearer insight and more patriotic appreciation of the blessings of liberty protected by law, nor without encouragement for the stability and perpetuity of the Republic.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

67-1: El Libro Talonario : a book of checks, receipts, etc., in which duplicate stubs remain as records of transactions.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

How great a relief it must have been, after the beer and sausages of The League of Youth , to go back to an old cool wine, no one can read Emperor and Galilean and doubt.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

There was the great noise of bells and buzzers—but that had been going on, Cadnan realized, even before they had begun.
— from Slave Planet by Laurence M. Janifer

The 'Archadia' might, of course, refer either to Sannazzaro's or Lope de Vega's romances, though this is highly improbable.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

His customers were the principal master-masons in Paris, so the more important materials for his house, which stood within five hundred yards of his quarry, had been brought out in his own carts returning empty.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August , when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg .
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The patent included all that part of New England lying between three miles to the [Pg 72] northward of Merrimack river, and three miles to the southward of Charles river, extending in length from the Atlantic ocean to the South sea.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

This discussion is based on continuously recorded echo-sounding traverses made by Lamont Geological Observatory expeditions.
— from The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic by Bruce C. Heezen

How they rambled over the vast expanse of countenance, recognizing each feature—lips, cheek, nose, chin, brow.
— from Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers

For this reason, as Hannibal was solemnly sworn by his father Amilcar to pursue the Romans with the utmost hatred as long as ever he lived, so my late father has enjoined me to remain here without, till God Almighty's thunder reduce them there within to ashes, like other presumptuous Titans, profane wretches, and opposers of God; since mankind is so inured to their oppressions that they either do not remember, foresee, or have a sense of the woes and miseries which they have caused; or, if they have, either will not, dare not, or cannot root 'em out.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by François Rabelais