FAUSTUS,—"How Doctor Faustus was carried through the ayre up to the heavens, to see the whole world, and how the sky and planets ruled," &c.]
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

She was a vivacious, loud-voiced, laughter-loving, healthy, and vigorous lady of thirty, with rosy cheeks, plump shoulders, a plump round chin and a continual smile on her thin lips.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thence home, and with my wife and Deb. to the King’s House to see a play revived called The———, a sorry mean play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Revolving in a perpetual cycle of declensions, conjugations, syntaxes, and prosodies; renewing constantly the occupations which had charmed their studious childhood; rehearsing continually the part of the past; life must have slipped from them at last like one day.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Andorra tobacco products, furniture Angola crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, gas, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton Anguilla lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum Antigua and Barbuda petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, machinery and transport equipment 17%, food and live animals 4%, other 8% Argentina edible oils, fuels and energy, cereals, feed, motor vehicles Armenia diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy Aruba live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment Australia coal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat, machinery and transport equipment Austria machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs Azerbaijan oil and gas 90%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs Bahamas, The mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables Bahrain petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles Bangladesh garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood (2001)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

William Pridham came to Los Angeles in August, having been transferred from the San Francisco office of Wells Fargo & Company, in whose service as pony rider, clerk at Austin, Nevada, and at Sacramento, and cashier in the Northern metropolis he had been for some ten years.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

Physical Resilience ¶ A general elasticity of structure, a suggestion of sinews and physical resilience characterizes this type.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

(Max's father, Charles V.'s Great-Grandfather); [How admirable Albert is, not to say "almost divine," to the Kaiser's then Secretary, oily-mouthed AEneas Sylvius, afterwards Pope, Rentsch can testify (pp.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

743 That way only strict and painful repentance can work;
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

" Mrs. Finch told 'im not to talk nonsense, but both Sam and Peter Russet could see 'ow pleased she was.
— from Captains All Captains All, Part 1. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs