Many lyrical gems are to be found preserved in the Sanskrit treatises on poetics.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

19. Name the various sins punished in the seven terraces of Purgatory.
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian by Oscar Kuhns

And in a few moments she had Mary’s long hair down, and was chattering like a blackbird, wreathing the pearls in and out, and saying a thousand pretty nothings, weaving grace and poetry into the strait thread of Puritan life.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I had several times seen men arrested and male prisoners in the streets, travelling, outside prisons and police courts, but I had never seen any women prisoners.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

Taking his place in the stern, the oarsman paddled out into deep water, and quickly brought them alongside the dhow.
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Proceeding in the same track of politics, Northleigh published two pamphlets on the side of the Tories, in the dispute between the petitioners and abhorrers; and finally produced, "The Triumph of our Monarchy, over the Plots and Principles of our Rebels and Republicans, being remarks on their most eminent [36] Libels.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

The first pair is the shortest; the others, proceeding backwards, increase gradually in length.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

“Property in Tyre,” said the other, “property in the moon.
— from Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The calumnies invented or exaggerated by Lenæus, and propagated in the scholiastic theme of Porcius Latro, have been adopted by Le Clerc, professor of Hebrew at Amsterdam, and by Professor Meisner, of Prague 191 , in their respective accounts of the Life of Sallust.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop