I. Disraeli Quotations from profane authors, cold allusions, false pathetic, antitheses and hyperboles, are out of doors.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For the Frati Umiliati of Ognissanti in Florence, Giotto painted a chapel and four panels, in one of which there was the Madonna, with many angels round her and the Child in her arms, and a large Crucifix on wood, whereof Puccio Capanna took the design and wrought many of them afterwards throughout all Italy, having much practice in the manner of Giotto.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The town is well built and pretty, and commands a fine prospect.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

The alternation of these farms with long tracts of forest, where spruces and pines stand a hundred and fifty feet high, and myriads of wild things have grown in generations of tangle, gives to the country around Portland a charm and flavor peculiarly its own; even into the city itself extends something of the same charm of contrast and antithesis; meandering footpaths, or narrow plank sidewalks with grassy rims, running within stone's-throw of solid brick blocks and business thoroughfares.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

And likewise, That every Provinciall Assembly, crave account from Presbyteries in their trials, if every Session be so provided, and that they try the diligence, of Presbyteries and Ministers used for that effect. 13. Februar.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

If I had only thought of it, I might have composed a Lament, taught it to all my pupils, and charged a fancy price for it in the bill."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

He found him very useful for stealing pistols and cartridges, and fastening people in the cabins, but once he got all he wanted, though he made a fuss with him and encouraged him to strut about, and called him his lieutenant, he used to be always looking at him ugly-like, and I got to think that before long there would be a row.”
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

Twice I got away in Père Allouez’ canoe, and found pleasure in conversing, although I had no confidence in the priest, and knew well that my absence would anger Cassion.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish

In practice, however, a lever may be a handspike, a pry, a crowbar, a fire poker, a windlass bar, or any other appliance or instrument that can be used for prying.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

The State on its side—that is to say, the community of which parents and child alike form part—is bound to know who these persons are who have become sponsors for a new individual now introduced into its midst.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis