The vineyard-dresser wreathed his hair with ivy that he might keep off the rays of the sun as he stooped over the young shoots, and for the artist and the athlete, the two types that Greece gave us, they plaited with garlands the leaves of the bitter laurel and of the wild parsley, which else had been of no service to men.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Mean while the tepid Caves, and Fens and shoares Thir Brood as numerous hatch, from the Egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclos’d Thir callow young, but featherd soon and fledge They summ’d thir Penns, and soaring th’ air sublime With clang despis’d the ground, under a cloud In prospect; there the Eagle and the Stork On Cliffs and Cedar tops thir Eyries build: Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise In common, rang’d in figure wedge thir way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Thir Aierie Caravan high over Sea’s Flying, and over Lands with mutual wing Easing thir flight; so stears the prudent Crane Her annual Voiage, born on Windes; the Aire Floats, as they pass, fann’d with unnumber’d plumes: From Branch to Branch the smaller Birds with song Solac’d the Woods, and spred thir painted wings
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Those who have had the fortune to profit by his medical or surgical aid, feel that no man could be more tender or sympathetic towards a patient.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

At this instant there came into court two old men, one carrying a cane by way of a walking-stick, and the one who had no stick said, "Senor, some time ago I lent this good man ten gold-crowns in gold to gratify him and do him a service, on the condition that he was to return them to me whenever I should ask for them.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Some of the brethren might get hold of the wrong leg, in the confusion, and the wrong skull, and find themselves limping, and looking through eyes that were wider apart or closer together than they were used to.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In short, since elders grow of a more pleasing sound, and fitter to make flutes, in such places where the crowing of cocks is not heard, as the ancient sages have writ and Theophrastus relates; as if the crowing of a cock dulled, flattened, and perverted the wood of the elder, as it is said to astonish and stupify with fear that strong and resolute animal, a lion.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

18th row—make 7 plain over 7 chain, 5 chain, drop the treble, bring the needle back with the loop through the 3rd plain = on the 5 chain: 3 plain, 1 picot, 3 plain = on the 7 remaining stitches: 2 plain—on the 9th scallop of 5 chain, only: 5 plain = on the 10th scallop of 5 chain, only: 3 plain = then 7 chain, bring them back and join them to the 3rd plain of the 9th scallop and finish the picot.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Thus Scipio was named Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, from the conquest of Carthage.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy, but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

In the meantime, Edward Paxton, seeing Elinor standing apart from the group of young people, had whispered to her.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

The works made satisfactory progress, and the centres for the first and second arches from the Surrey shore were soon fixed.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

And it must be said also, for the sake of telling the truth, that they erected more church-buildings than they needed, because the same sectarian rivalry obtained there as in the country round about.
— from Around Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry

Pius II. had formed in the curia a college of sixty “abbreviators” for the expedition of papal briefs, which became for the most part a refuge for needy men of letters.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Down his sides and flanks the blood ran, so that the nag was all covered with blood down to the belly.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

This is evidently the Njína, the only known anthropoid that attains tall human stature; and from the rest of the passage,[FN#23] it is clear that he has confounded the chimpanzee with the Nchigo-mpolo.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Snags and floating timbers were very troublesome.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

While following the general style adopted for the house, there should be something new in every issue—something that will attract and cause the reader to look for the ad each month.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence