[4250] except it primarily proceed from blood, or that the malady be increased by it; for bloodletting refrigerates and dries up, except the body be very full of blood, and a kind of ruddiness in the face.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And yet, up to the present time, geology has been looked upon by many Christian writers with jealous eye, because it was supposed to teach the world’s eternity, and so to account for natural changes by catastrophes and the gradual operation of existing agencies, as to render a Deity unnecessary, either for the creation or regulation of the world.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

They asked at once for Bjorn, and she said he had ridden away down under Eyjafell, and so east under Selialandsmull, and on east to Holt, "for he has some money to call in thereabouts," she said.
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

Carry on rising to admit the caller had the usual tussle with the door, while grandma reiterated uncomplimentary remarks about the "blessed feller" who should some time since have effected repairs, and Danby upon entering wore an extremely grave face, looked neither at Dawn nor Carry, but addressed himself straight to Mrs Martha Clay.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

" They talked of possible retreats, and decided upon Epsom, which was not far from their old home at Ewell; then Mrs. Hannaford replied to Otway.
— from The Crown of Life by George Gissing

Oh, I’m all right,” answered Dan uneasily, eager to pass on.
— from Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods by Ralph Henry Barbour

Christ had dealt a rude blow to all that was base in human nature, but baseness was the greater power, to which even God must succumb while He remained a dweller upon earth.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

[348] ad hoc co n dicto die, cu m solle m pni et regia pompa, gladio filium suum accinxit; adiunctis tirocinio suo strenuis adolescentib us gen er osis, quos rex ad dec us et gloriam filii sui
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

He always regarded a descent upon England as possible, though in its result fatal, so long as we should be inferior in naval strength; but he hoped by various manoeuvres to secure a superiority on one point.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 03 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne