Therefore, all speculations of this sort are justly discredited; they can only consist in subjective and arbitrary constructions which are subject to no sort of control.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Venus ascends for fifteen days and somewhat more; Saturn and Jupiter descend in twice that number of days, and Mars in four times.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother,” said Peter, “and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

No one on board had been through the straits, but I had in my chest an account of the passage of the ship A. J. Donelson, of New York, through those straits, a few years before.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Once, we confess, beneath the patriot’s cloak, From the cracked bag the dropping guinea spoke, And jingling down the back-stairs, told the crew, “Old Cato is as great a rogue as you.”
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

But from thenceforth they hold not any room in those inns of court, being translated to one of the said two inns, called Sergeante’s inns, where none but the sergeants and judges do converse.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

" With that they stepp'd aside, and stoop'd their head, (As Dolon pass'd,) behind a heap of dead: Along the path the spy unwary flew; Soft, at just distance, both the chiefs pursue.
— from The Iliad by Homer

2 The Lord unsparingly hath swallowed All Jacobs dwellings, and demolished 95 To ground the strengths of Iuda , and prophan'd The Princes of the Kingdome, and the land.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

God knows I tried to do the right thing by the boy, same as Jimmy did by his daughter, but Charley’s got the blood 178 in him.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

"And now the real job begins," Garlock said, as James dropped the starship down to within a few miles of the moon's surface.
— from The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

2 should this definition also be rejected for the same reason, I know no other remedy, than that the persons, who express this delicacy, should substitute a juster definition in its place.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Many players, however, who are young in experience, and some who are older too, seem to imagine that the simplest stroke, as just described, is the limit of the resources of the cleek, and never give it credit for the versatility which it undoubtedly possesses.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

This revictualling of Coron, says Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, was one of the skilfullest naval operations of the sixteenth century.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

Now, Epicure, Heighten thyself, talk to her all in gold; Rain her as many showers as Jove did drops Unto his Danae; shew the god a miser, Compared with Mammon.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

"I have none with me, sir," answered Jasmin, discreetly em
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Various

she asked Jak. "Didn't seem to hurt him a bit."
— from The Planet Mappers by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans