But this unreasonable lady requires in addition sundry things to be painted that have neither lines nor colours— "The thoughts, the recollections, sweet and bitter, Or the Elysian dreams of lovers when they loved.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This was partly because of the immense importance of the drama which was being played in the Soudan, and because of the extraordinary development page 153 p. 153 of the drama; but it was chiefly due to the sympathy of the people with the heroic champion of light and civilization; for his spotless honesty; for his valour, tried times without number; for his British tenacity; for his faith in his religion and country; for his keen insight; for his heroic unselfishness, and for all his other fine qualities.
— from General Gordon, Saint and Soldier by Joseph Wardle

] into the story that the goddess Venus appeared to her, and, while Helen was shrinking with apprehension and fear of her power, told her that she should fall into a deep slumber, and on awaking should be oblivious of her past life, "ignorant of shame, and blameless of those evil deeds that the goddess should thrust upon her."
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

If we suppose the whole of the Alleghany mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the western parts of Virginia, removed to a level with the surface at base of their eastern declivities, it is probable their foundation, which would be thus exposed, would be found through their whole extent to be of transition limestone.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

From the days of St. Patrick the monastic schools, veritable cities of God in the midst of the strife and barbarism of those early days, exerted their influence on the life around them in favour of piety, learning and civilization.
— from The Life of Saint Columba, Apostle of Scotland by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

1. John Smith, a Baron of the Exchequer during the last seven years of the reign of Henry VIII.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

In a unilateral involvement of this kind in a three-month-old mule colt, the author observed a case wherein an unfavorable prognosis was given and destruction of the subject advised, because of the extreme dislocation of the patella.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

BOOK II—THE SPELL OF APHRODITE The coming of Aphrodite, and how she told Helen that she must depart in company with Paris, but promised withal that Helen, having fallen into a deep sleep, should awake forgetful of her old life, and ignorant of her shame, and blameless of those evil deeds that the Goddess thrust upon her.
— from Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang

My case was such a bad one, that every day, towards sunset, my voice would become so hoarse I could barely speak above a whisper.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce