For in both these cases, there is required a more exact ratiocination, than every man is accustomed to use.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.
— from Symposium by Plato

Before she could reply to this ungallant speech, Rose entered the room; and Miss Eliza rising to greet her, they both seated themselves near the fire, where that idle lad Fergus was standing, leaning his shoulder against the corner of the chimney-piece, with his legs crossed and his hands in his breeches-pockets.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

alt i mancho molto megliori de tucti li altri Cochi batate canne dolci radice como rapi aL mãgiare et rizo cotto ſoto lo fuocho in canne o in legnio queſto dura piu que q e llo coto in pigniatte
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Way, Promptorium Parvulorum , p. 320, sub voce ‘Lyche’); while ratchet is undoubtedly the same as the Anglo-Saxon ræce and Middle English racche or rache , a dog that hunts by scent and gives tongue.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of revery, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and the creeping shadows.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative (and may every reader have a score of such), what a kind good-natured old creature we find her!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and creeping shadows.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He answered with brave roarings, and manifested every resolution to maintain his conquest.
— from The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

From the president of the “Central” C. L. S. C., of the same city, we have received a most entertaining record of the past year’s work.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3 by Chautauqua Institution

While this contest for the cold and uninviting country of Nova Scotia was carried on with equal acrimony and talents, a controversy arose for richer and more extensive regions in the south and west.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

to 37 per cent.; nor does the ore lie near the surface, and the process of making it into iron and steel is necessarily more tedious and more costly than is the case with the richer and more easily reached northern iron.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

Trantow, without rising at my entrance, reached a chair and drew it up to the table, then gave me his hand, and nodded his head towards the bottles and the dishes.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Thus when I have recalled among my earliest recollections the fire which destroyed Covent Garden Theatre (in 1856), I have been thought to be babbling of Drury Lane, which was burnt down in 1812; and so, when I say that in early life I travelled a great deal upon the Road, I shall probably be accused of having been born before railways were invented.
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell

Early in the year in yard after yard expert riveters were reported as making extraordinary records, and prizes were offered to the winners of such records.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

Life-belts if you can!’ I remember Bernard standing at the top of the ladder, helping us up, and somehow, I understand from him, that we were on a reef, and might either remain there, and sink, or be washed off.
— from Modern Broods; Or, Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

These wooden clippers were often very tender coming home with wool, as the following reminiscence given by Coates in his Good Old Days of Shipping will show:—“Apropos of Jerusalem , I remember a most exciting race with the large American ship Iroquois .
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

He wrote a letter in 1875 to the newly-constituted Virginia fish commissioners describing an era well-nigh incredible to today's Tidewater fishermen: Shad were abundant in the Rivanna at my earliest recollection, say prior to 1800.
— from The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia by James Wharton