A Monster and a beggar, 1635-69 , O'F , Chambers In fortunes, nor (or S96 ) in natures gifts alas, But by thy grace, &c. B , S96 .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Terrible doctrines are formulated, and press themselves with remorseless vigour upon his understanding—original sin, justification by faith, eternal damnation for even honest error of belief,—doctrines that throw an atmosphere of solemnity, if not gloom, about national thought, in which no fairy mythology can flourish.
— from Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by Thomas Alfred Spalding

When our back is nigh to breakin', An' our strength is nearly gone, An' along there comes the layin' Of another burden on— If we'll only jest remember, No matter what's to pay, That 'tisn't yet December, An' we're livin' by the day.
— from Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The volume of sound is not great, and the music produced is not unlike that of the Scotch bagpipes played very softly and very badly.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

[p.76] The president of one of the largest banks in this country told the writer that, disappointed one summer in not getting a run to Europe, reflection told him that one marked benefit such jaunts had brought him was from the increased sleep he was enabled to get, that thereupon he determined on longer sleeps at home.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

“I shouldn’t think so; one shoe is no good alone.”
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

Dampier says, that the natives of the island of Sabala, in New Guinea, are a class of tawny Indians, with long black hair, and whose manners are not much different from those of Mindanao, and the other oriental islands; but besides them, it is also peopled by negroes, with short woolly hair.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

The other, besides being more popular and easily followed, has the advantage of separating the objects of study into natural groups, and tracing more readily their connection and relation to one another.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

I have really nothing the matter with me now—but my stock of strength is not great, and I can't afford to spend any on dinners.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

At the same time the portrait of Saul is not given at full length, like those of the wicked kings, partly perhaps because the chronicler had little interest for anything before the time of David and the Temple, but partly, we may hope, because the record of David's affection for Saul kept alive a kindly feeling towards the founder of the monarchy.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

The central figure of our story is now going along behind the counter, a draper indeed, with your purchases in his arms, to the warehouse, where the various articles you have selected will presently be packed by the senior porter and sent to you.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells