The Lady Adeline's serene severity Was not confined to feeling for her friend, Whose fame she rather doubted with posterity, Unless her habits should begin to mend: But Juan also shared in her austerity, But mix'd with pity, pure as e'er was penn'd:
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

7.] concerning the distinction of ideas without any real difference will not here serve us in any stead.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I have seen a Mississippi cat-fish that was more than six feet long, and weighed two hundred and fifty pounds; and if Marquette's fish was the fellow to that one, he had a fair right to think the river's roaring demon was come.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Which must be mutual, in proportion due Giv’n and receiv’d; but in disparitie The one intense, the other still remiss Cannot well suite with either, but soon prove Tedious alike: Of fellowship I speak Such as I seek, fit to participate All rational delight, wherein the brute Cannot be human consort; they rejoyce Each with thir kinde, Lion with Lioness; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combin’d; Much less can Bird with Beast, or Fish with Fowle So well converse, nor with the Ox the Ape; Wors then can Man with Beast, and least of all.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

While this dialogue was going on, the driver was most ignominiously leading the horse, by the bridle, up to the house with the red door, which Master Bardell had already opened.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Strangers had no chance in those days on the heath: and, though dazzled by the splendour and fashion assembled there, and surrounded by the greatest persons of the land,—the royal dukes, with their wives and splendid equipages; old Grafton, with his queer bevy of company, and such men as Ancaster, Sandwich, Lorn,—a man might have considered himself certain of fair play and have been not a little proud of the society he kept; yet, I promise you, that, exalted as it was, there was no set of men in Europe who knew how to rob more genteelly, to bubble a stranger, to bribe a jockey, to doctor a horse, or to arrange a betting-book.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The reigning duke, who was deeply interested in the welfare of the Lutheran Church, judiciously and vigorously sustained his new court-preacher in all his labors.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

But he very rarely did wish: it was apt to involve a tiresome insistence.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

And in no other regard do we find the rich tortuous humanity of the American story so finely displayed as in regard to slavery.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

You looked so sorry because sailors only sail round duckponds, when you thought they always sailed out by the West and home by the East.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

With some turns the belt rolled double, with others wide open, and it all adjusted itself to the bull-fighter's form, smooth as if it were a single piece, without wrinkles or puffs.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“It is like this,” he went on, staring again upon the now rapidly darkening waters, “you may learn all that I have begin to tell you there in that one piece of music.
— from A Woman's Will by Anne Warner

In the Legislature in which he served one of his fellow-Democrats from Brooklyn was the Speaker—Alfred C. Chapin, the leader and the foremost representative of the reform Democracy, whom Kelly zealously supported.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

I could see the unfinished State-House, a handsome granite structure, and the ruins of the railroad depot, which were still smouldering.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

RAISING DUCKS Probably in many neighbourhoods you would be laughed at if you tried to raise ducks without a pond or stream of water.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

The tripe de roche disagreed with this man and with Vaillant in consequence of which they were the first whose strength totally failed.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin