Why does no lively word fly from the tongue of the perplexed newcomer, who at other times may be very fond of laughter, lively words, conversation about the fair sex, and other cheerful subjects?
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As clear an Idea of spiritual substance as of corporeal substance.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Take of Borax an ounce, Camphire a dram, white Coral half an ounce, Alum Plume an ounce, Umbilicus Marinus, Tragacanth, white Starch, of each three drams, Crystal, Dentalis Utalis, Olibanum, Niter, white Marble, of each two drams, Gersa Serpentaria an ounce, Ceruss six ounces, Hog’s grease not salted, a pound and an half, Goat’s suet prepared, an ounce and an half, Hen’s fat two ounces and an half.
— 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

In the fourteenth century, a scandalous act of concord secured to both factions the privilege of extracting stones from the free and common quarry of the Coliseum; 60 and Poggius laments, that the greater part of these stones had been burnt to lime by the folly of the Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

At the beginning of that month Willis and I were in Yedo together for a few days, while he attended to wounded men of the Satsuma and other clans, such as Toda, Chôshiû and Bizen.
— 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

Presently, as I looked with satisfaction about our comfortable sitting-room, it flashed upon me that if Mr. Shimerda’s soul were lingering about in this world at all, it would be here, in our house, which had been more to his liking than any other in the neighbourhood.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Imagine once more, I said, such an one coming suddenly 217 out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

There was a big window overlooking the sea towards Genoa, and a glass door through which she could proceed out on to the battlements and walk along past the quaint and attractive watch-tower, in itself a room with chairs and a writing table, to where on the other side of the tower the battlements ended in a marble seat, and one could see the western bay and the point round which began the Gulf of Spezia.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Such an one can suffer no others near him; their existence is a continual insult to him.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Though to be sure, any one could see it in your eyes, and your father a soldier so many of his days too."
— from Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

On a visit in June I was walking to the station to catch the morning train to take me to London when I passed a broker’s shop and of course stopped.
— from Collecting as a Pastime by Charles Rowed

Sfẻrra, an old cast sute of apparell, or any thing cast by and left off.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street.
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir