What, Jessica!- And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The defence and salvation of the body by daily bread is still a study, a religion, and a desire.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Well, thou shalt see; thy eyes shall be thy judge, The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:— What, Jessica!—Thou shalt not gormandize, As thou hast done with me;—What, Jessica!— And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out— Why, Jessica, I say!
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

A semi-vowel, that which with such impact has an audible sound, as S and R. A mute, that which with such impact has by itself no sound, but joined to a vowel sound becomes audible, as G and D. These are distinguished according to the form assumed by the mouth and the place where they are produced; according as they are aspirated or smooth, long or short; as they are acute, grave, or of an intermediate tone; which inquiry belongs in detail to the writers on metre.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The only difficulty in it was the entrance—which, however, as it was a place of security, and such a retreat as I wanted; I thought was a convenience; so that I was really rejoiced at the discovery, and resolved, without any delay, to bring some of those things which I was most anxious about to this place: particularly, I resolved to bring hither my magazine of powder, and
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

In 1850, science would have smiled at such a romance as this, but, in 1900, as far as history could learn, few men of science thought it a laughing matter.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

"But the sun," said Gangler, speeds at such a rate as if she feared that some one was pursuing her for her destruction."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Thus King Sampáti spoke and sighed: And royal Angad thus replied: “If, brother of Jatáyus, thou Hast heard the tale I told but now, Obedient to mine earnest prayer The dwelling of that fiend declare.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It was like the swaying and shaking, and rustling and soughing, in a summer gale, of a million leaves and branches in the depth of the primeval forest.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Its broken tones, striving and struggling, almost rising at times into a shriek, seemed of all things to complain of its own voicelessness.
— from Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

The fever had passed away; and the sense of restored happiness, joined to youth and a naturally good constitution, had a rapid effect in renovating her strength and spirits, and recalling a faint bloom to her cheek.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

I recall one day we were pulling what they called the Lodge Grass Hill on the Little Horn River and it was very steep and scarcely any road at all.
— from Memories of Old Montana by Con Price

After all these previous barrages it reached the utmost heights of hellishness, destroying what had already been destroyed, sweeping all this wide tract of sand-dunes right away from the coast to the south of Lombartzyde with flame and smoke and steel, and reaping another harvest of death.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

Of the human remains the skulls are small and round, and have a prominent ridge over the sockets of the eyes, showing that the ancient race was of small stature with round heads—what is called brachycephalus , or short-headed, and had over-hanging eyebrows; in short, their skeletons bare a considerable resemblance to those of the modern Laplanders.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

Now he stumps about in this same library, but manages to take me travelling thousands of never-weary miles; and many and many a time do we walk, and shoot, and swim, and race, and fight over and over again that happy time at the cape.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

It demands great industry and patience to wade into such abstruse stores as records and charters: and they being jejune and narrow in themselves, very acute criticism is necessary to strike light from their assistance.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

Instantly irritation and swelling are set up in the exquisitely elastic tissues of the nostrils, thick, sticky mucous, instead of the normal watery secretion, is poured out, the child begins to sneeze and snuffle and "run at the nose," and either the bacteria are carried directly to this danger sponge, right at the back of the nostrils, or the inflammation gradually spreads to it.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson