The dust, waste-paper-littered, was still deep in the streets; the deep, trough-like gutters alongside the curbstones were still half full of reposeful water with a dusty surface; the sidewalks were still—in the sugar and bacon region—encumbered by casks and barrels and hogsheads; the great blocks of austerely plain commercial houses were as dusty-looking as ever.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

There Gangá, tributary queen, And Sindhu 934 by his lord, were seen, [pg 444] And every stream and brook renowned In ancient story girt him round.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

figure and colour, such as beauty, rainbow, &c. 5.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It cleanseth the womb if it be foul, and strengthens it exceedingly; it provokes the terms if they be stopped, and stops them if they flow immoderately; you can desire no good to your womb, but this herb will affect it; therefore if you love children, if you love health, if you love ease, keep a syrup always by you, made of the juice of this herb, and sugar (or honey, if it be to cleanse the womb), and let such as be rich keep it for their poor neighbours; and bestow it as freely as I bestow my studies upon them, or else let them look to answer it another day, when the Lord shall come to make inquisition for blood.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

God sends not ill; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or Nature lets it fall; Short, and but rare, till man improved it all.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

The owner of a cow which has vomited such a ball, regards it as a propitious augury for the prosperity of his family.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

After dinner the director lay on the sofa in his study and began reading the letters and newspapers he had received.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Lieutenant Baker shot a Baleniceps Rex.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

It was exceedingly delightful to come thus unexpectedly upon such a beautiful region.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

So the operation was done on a grand scale; thousands of cattle were handled every day, and altogether such a big round-up was a very busy and interesting scene.
— from Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

Thus the Brethren stood for a Puritan standard, a Bible religion and a broad Evangelical Faith.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

Of course I repelled the idea that honesty was so rare amongst American politicians as to have led them to invent a new word to represent such an unusual phenomenon as an honest voter; there is, I am sure, a better reason to be found, and I commend the word to the notice of English politicians; the principle it represents may be valuable if largely applied during our own coming elections.
— from Frank's Ranche; Or, My Holiday in the Rockies Being a Contribution to the Inquiry into What We Are to Do with Our Boys by E. (Edward) Marston