Of these peoples, three, Greece, Italy, and Spain, represent the South; three, England, Germany, and Russia, represent the north; the seventh, or the first, France, is at the same time North and South, Celtic and Latin, Gothic and Greek.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The green sickness therefore often happeneth to young women, a cachexia or an evil habit to men, besides their ordinary sighs, complaints, and lamentations, which are too frequent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This was the Substance of all that was evidenced against them, the Prisoners answered in their Defence, ‘That they had no Witnesses: That they had bought a Pettiauger in order to go a Turtleing; and being at Negril Point , and just got ashore, they saw a Sloop with a white Pendant coming towards them, upon which they took their Arms, and hid themselves in the Bushes: That one of them hail’d the Sloop, who answer’d, They were English Men , and desired them to come aboard and drink a Bowl of Punch; which they at first refused, but afterwards with much perswasion, they went on Board, in the Sloop’s Canoe, and left their own Pettiauger at Anchor: That they had been but a short Time on Board, when Captain Barnet ’s
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

I remember, for I was there, that she came at last to the point of looking on him almost as her betrothed who dared not ‘elope with her,’ simply because he had many enemies and family difficulties, or something of the sort.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We now continued our journey along the left bank of the river, but when in sight of Mr. S——'s clearing, a large pine-tree, which had newly fallen across the narrow path, brought the teams to a standstill.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

She ceased, and lowered her head; hardly had she closed her blue eyes, when floods of tears escaped from under her lashes, and Zosia stood there silent, with closed eyelids, shedding tears like diamonds.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

What a distinction, Charley, to be lagged at his time of life!' 'Well, it is a honour that is!' said Charley, a little consoled.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

I am not ignorant that Solomon said, who indeed of that matter speaketh clerklike and learnedly,—as also how Aristotle after him declared for a truth that, for the greater part, the lechery of a woman is ravenous and unsatisfiable.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"Ah, you think so, do you?" said Cleggett aloud, laying down his glass and seizing a rifle.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

And if we go on to say: Could a line be so drawn as to pass through your image of me and my image of you, and to measure their distance from one another?
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

He so far succeeded, that men so celebrated as Laplace and Malus, who lived till 1812, and Biot and Brewster, who lived till our own time, were found among his disciples.
— from Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall

In going from it we rode through a most beautiful country by the side of an officer of the sixth cavalry, and listened to his enthusiastic account of scouting in front of our lines, in the footsteps of the retreating enemy, over the very roads we were travelling safely and without concern; and yet we were not many miles from the foe, and within reach of the marvellous flight of the minié ball, which some lurking rifleman might aim from the other side of the Potomac.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Yes, my fellow-countrymen," she continued amidst loud cheers, "it was good for us, seeing how happily we now live with England, that we did not take Mr. Gladstone's half-measure.
— from Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny by Vogel, Julius, Sir

She can always laugh at pleasure.
— from The Hoyden by Duchess

23 With the scauper clear a line round the work a little more than its own width.
— from Wood Engraving by R. J. Beedham

It was, no doubt, owing to this arrangement that the Crows and Umbiquas shewed themselves so hardy; but the prompt and successful retaliation of the Shoshones cooled a little the war spirit which was fomenting around us.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat