So the judgments of God upon Zion, are called the covering of a cloud (Lam 2:1).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Framed in the slightest and most sylph-like mould, yet of proportions exquisitely true, of symmetry most rare, of roundness most voluptuous, of grace unrivalled, Zelica was in sooth a creature, formed not so much for mortal love as for ideal adoration.
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert

THE LIFE OF G U Z M A N D’A L F A R A C H E. CHAP.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 1/3 by Mateo Alemán

Whatever tricks were played upon him, were however tempered by the forbearance and regard his worth demanded; while the obstreperous cheerfulness with which he would second their mirth, when most ignorant of its occasion, gave uncommon zest to the amusement, and furnished eternal provocation to the prolonging and varying its features.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin