Their limbs lie strewn about the fatal mount, Blackened and torn, eyes gummed with blood, hearts rolled Out from their ribs, to give the wolves of the wold A red feast; nothing of them left but these Pierced relics, underneath the olive trees, Show where the gin was sprung—the scoundrel-trap Which brought those hero-lads their foul mishap.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

For they feel that they can at any rate do without it: and they fear that the cultivation of it may place the mind in a wrong [100] attitude in relation to practice, and prove rather unfavourable than otherwise to the proper development of the practically important faculty manifested or exercised in particular moral judgments.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

" And shouldering suddenly his spear He faded like some elfin fear, Where the tall pines ran up, tier on tier Tree overtoppling tree.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

For a Mixture of homogeneal red and yellow compounds an Orange, like in appearance of Colour to that orange which in the series of unmixed prismatick Colours lies between them; but the Light of one orange is homogeneal as to Refrangibility, [Pg 133] and that of the other is heterogeneal, and the Colour of the one, if viewed through a Prism, remains unchanged, that of the other is changed and resolved into its component Colours red and yellow.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Twenty miles—without counting in the flights—is probably rather under than over the average distance when any considerable number of hawks are to be flown.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

Although the proof rests upon the opponents to this measure, and not upon its friends, yet I am willing and prepared to prove, by the best evidence the nature of the case will admit, that the navigation of the Potomac, instead of being injured, will be greatly benefited by the erection of this bridge.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

This allusion to the publisher reminds us that, on the suppression of his pension—on hearing of which Scarron only said, 'I should like, then, to suppress myself'—he had to live on the profits of his works.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

The little chapel peacefully resting under the overhanging trees, with the solemn graveyard beside it, tells the story of life's longings and miseries.
— from The White Spark A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation by Orville Livingston Leach

In a fair year the cotton planter reckons upon ten or twelve bales to the hand, in which case the annual yield of a negro varies from £90 to £120.
— from The Civil War in America Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

The man was a soft, fleshy creature, probably rather under than over the medium height, and he lay there, with his stretched neck and protruding tongue, a revolting object.
— from Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

"Pop says it's the windiest place in the county," he answered, "poked right up there on the top of that knoll."
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler