When Chia Cheng heard this remark, he smiled and said, addressing himself to Chia Chen: "This just reminds me that although this place is perfect in every respect, there's still one thing wanting in the shape of a wine board; and you had better then have one made to-morrow on the very same pattern as those used outside in villages; and it needn't be anything gaudy, but hung above the top of a tree by means of bamboos."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

cymbala ferre licet pectusque inlidere pinu inguinis et reliquum Phrygiis abscidere cultris.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

By this time the judge must have made up his mind; he may have to forgive a fault here and one there, in order to arrive at a proper order of placing the ponies in their class, as no pony is perfect in every respect.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

They are in most points inferior (perhaps in every respect, save navigation,) to all the nations that inhabit the vast peninsula of Eastern India.--E.]
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Against these last possibilities I pray in every recess of my thoughts.
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

The uncompromising quality of her hatred was one thing that had made dissimulation easy, and through all Hugh's childhood she had practised it perfectly in every relation and direction on every one but him.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

I used to keep some plants in pots in each room so as to throw the earth over any oil that might get alight.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

This plan I put in execution—rode round the island, then through it, lasso in hand, and as softly as if I had been riding over eggs.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

If a small amount of dried product is put in each receptacle, just enough for one or two meals, it will not be necessary to open a large container.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall