Amid the ring each nervous rival stands, Embracing rigid with implicit hands.
— from The Iliad by Homer

They are never romantic, seldom even rural.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn, to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight, The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine, 450 Or Dairie, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass, What pleasing seemd, for her now pleases more,
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Deus glorificatus est, et Scripturæ vere divinæ creditæ sunt, omnibus eandem et eisdem verbis et eisdem nominibus recitantibus ab initio usque ad finem, uti et præsentes gentes cognoscerent quoniam per inspirationem Dei interpretatæ sunt Scripturæ, et non esset mirabile Deum hoc in eis operatum: quando in ea captivitate populi quæ facta est a Nabuchodonosor, corruptis scripturis et post 70 annos Judæis descendentibus in regionem suam, et post deinde temporibus Artaxerxis Persarum regis, inspiravit Esdræ sacerdoti tribus Levi præteritorum prophetarum omnes rememorare sermones, et restituere populo eam legem quæ data est per Moysen.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

" "I have very few relations," said Ermengarde, reflectively, "and I'm very glad of it.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ANT: Abandon, relax, soothe, ease, relieve.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

It is surely now time that our rulers should either realize this golden dream, in which they have been indulging themselves, perhaps, as well as the people; or that they should awake from it themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As one who long in populous City pent, Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn, to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight, The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine, Or Dairie, each rural sight, each rural sound; If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass, What pleasing seemd, for her now pleases more,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

In other places, such as to the west of where Bright Angel Creek now flows, small mountains of red Algonkian rocks (Second Era) remained.
— from Ancient Landscapes of the Grand Canyon Region The Geology of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Petrified Forest & Painted Desert by Edwin D. (Edwin Dinwiddie) McKee

"All right, sir," Eric replied, as bravely as he could.
— from The Wreckers of Sable Island by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

It is built right at the water's edge, with the grand mountain-wall of the Andes running so stiffly, loftily and impenetrably up behind, that you wonder how the rays of the rising sun ever reach the little city nestled at their rocky feet.
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone

Generals R. S. Ewell, R. H. Anderson, A. P. Hill, and John B. Gordon commanded corps of the Army of Northern Virginia south of Petersburg and the James, the whole under Lee.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

Here the printed Story leaves off; but if I may give credit to Reports, our Linguist having received such extraordinary Rudiments towards a good Education, was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a Gentleman; wearing off by little and little all the vicious Habits and Practises that he had been used to in the Course of his Peregrinations: Nay , it is said, that he has since been employed in foreign Courts upon National Business, with great Reputation to himself and Honour to those who sent him 9 , and that he has visited several Countries as a publick Minister, in which he formerly wander'd as a Gypsie.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir