Jovianus Pontanus, in his tenth book, and thirteenth chapter de rebus coelestibus , discourseth to this purpose at large, Ex atra bile varii generantur morbi , &c.,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“I’m sure one on ’em caved in last week,” said Pete, “and let ’em all down in de middle of de singin’; dat ar was failin’, warnt it?”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

”—Here the old gentleman paused, and looked earnestly at Jones; whose countenance, within a minute's space, displayed the extremities of both red and white.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

She had been in France (where St. Just, they say, inspired her with an unfortunate passion), and loved, ever after, French novels, French cookery, and French wines.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

V. legalize; enact, ordain; decree &c. (order) 741; pass a law, enact a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

So then the work is to be proportionate to the expense, and this again to the work, or even above it: and the Magnificent man will incur such expenses from the motive of honour, this being common to all the virtues, and besides he will do it with pleasure and lavishly; excessive accuracy in calculation being Mean.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Rather uneasy, I paused and looked eagerly around.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Procope, the physician, a little Esop, a favorite with the ladies; Boulanger, the celebrated posthumous author of ‘Despotisme Oriental’, and who, I am of opinion, extended the systems of Mussard on the duration of the world.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ESTIVAL (Abbe d'), provincial priest and Lenten exhorter at the church of Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas, Paris.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

If the church really believed that God would let them into an experience where sonatas and minuets and bridal marches and "Mondnacht" and the "Etude in C sharp minor" would be heard all the time, and free of charge, all the bishops and the big preachers and little evangelists and exhorters and ministers would be besieged by a grand eager throng of people, crying with one accord, "What must I do to be sanctified?"
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Abraham Yarmolinsky – + Bookm 46:485 D ‘17 320w “These poets, Pushkin and Lermontov excepted, are almost unknown to the average English reader. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

A. W. Schlegel says that "both of these parts are full of absurdities, that the author had ventured upon describing the most forced situations and passions without being aware of his want of power, that especially the catastrophe of the second part, which is intended to surpass every conceivable horror, is introduced in a trivial manner, merely producing a ludicrous effect, and that the whole was like a child's drawings, wholly unmindful of the laws of proportion."
— from The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant by Francis Asbury Smith

The Commander-in-Chief suggests the propriety of your causing the above to be carried into effect, in a manner calculated to produce as little excitement as possible, and report your proceedings to him through the Adjutant General.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Poor Arnold lost everything and was not insured.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville

Iroquois hostility had long closed the Niagara portage and Lake Erie against them.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

All which, with his vile reproachfull aspersions and most false calumnies against this Kirk and State, and their publike and lawfull endeavours and resolutions, with his other wicked and perfidious practises at length discovered in the Proclamation of the Committee of Estates, and the Declaration of the Commission of the Assembly against the said perfidious Band and Remonstrance, being gravely pondered and considered; Together with his base treachery to the Estates, being intrusted by them with ample Comission, and encouraged and enabled for discharging thereof, with Mony Ammunition and Arms in a good measure; Notwithstanding whereof contrary to that great trust reposed in him.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

"So glad," she purred at last, extending a long slim hand in Markham's direction.
— from Madcap by George Gibbs

So——” he paused and looked eloquently at Orme.
— from The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin

I prevaricated, and looked economical, and middle-aged.
— from Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Its walls of pure and solid ice emitted a soft and rich blue light that produced a lovely effect, and suggested enchanted caves, and that sort of thing.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain