“his heirs did not ultimately suffer any pecuniary loss by the closure of the Exchequer.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Water is good, saith a poet; let ‘em Pindarize upon’t.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Chosen men stand round; he, sick and panting, leans his neck and lets his beard spread down over his chest.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Κεράτιον, ίου, τό, (dimin. of κέρας ) pr. a little horn; in N.T., a pod, the pod of the carob tree, or Ceratonia siliqua of Linnœus, a common tree in the East and the south of Europe, growing to a considerable size, and producing long slender pods, with a pulp of sweetish taste and several brown shining seeds like beans, sometimes eaten by the poorer people in Syria and Palestine, and commonly used for fattening swine, Lu. 15.16.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen,— By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke,— In that same place thou hast appointed me, Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Pone exemplum, quod quis potest ambulare super trahem quae est in via: sed si sit super aquam profundam, loco pontis, non ambulabit super eam, eo quod imaginetur in animo et timet vehementer, forma cadendi impressa, cui obediunt membra omnia, et facultates reliquae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A worse thing yet remains, This day the Philistines a popular Feast Here celebrate in Gaza, and proclaim Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praises loud To Dagon, as their God who hath deliver'd Thee Samson bound and blind into thir hands, Them out of thine, who slew'st them many a slain.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don’t know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

But, bad as it is, we shall at present leave him in it, as his good genius (if he really had any) seems to have done.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"All dying persons hear musical sounds: all dying persons see strange, fitful gleams of marvellous light, and so did Thomas Clark—low, sweet music and soft and pearly light it was, but while he drank it in, and under its influence was being reconciled to Death, there suddenly rose high and shrill above the midnight tempest, a loud and agonizing shriek—the wild, despairing, woeful shriek of a woman—and it was more shrill and piercing than the ziraleet of Egyptian dame or Persian houri; and it broke upon the ear of the perishing man, like a summons back to life and hope.
— from Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph

In the former case the tension of the strings increases, and the notes become therefore higher; on the other hand, if the strings are pushed lower down the pitch of the notes must become deeper.
— from Musical Instruments by Carl Engel

It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

They were totally ignorant of all that passes, or has lately passed, in the world; unable to discuss any question of religious, political, or military knowledge; equally strangers to science and politer learning, and without any wish to improve their minds, or any other pleasure than that of displaying rarities, of which they would not suffer others to make the proper use.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

But I hope we don't strike another place like that above.
— from Fred Fenton Marathon Runner: The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman

Also that they spoke a peculiar language.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

The sudden summons appeared to have flustered him; for his eyes danced more than usual, giving him the startled and perplexed look of a hunted animal at bay.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And yet I was able to show that I had not only done so, after paying large sums in taxation, but that I actually had seven hundred pounds over.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

It did seem a powerful long time before Jim's light showed up; and when it did show it looked like it was a thousand mile off.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 by Mark Twain

Why it follows such a practice Lucien could not tell, as naturalists are not agreed upon this point.
— from The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North by Mayne Reid