V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c. n.; wuther[obs3]; stream, issue. respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough. fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate|; blow up.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There she counted for very little; here for all.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Him after long debate, irresolute Of thoughts revolv'd, his final sentence chose Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark suggestions hide 90 From sharpest sight: for in the wilie Snake, Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark, As from his wit and native suttletie Proceeding, which in other Beasts observ'd Doubt might beget of Diabolic pow'r Active within beyond the sense of brute.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Teleology, therefore, as science, belongs to no Doctrine, but only to Criticism; and to the criticism of a special cognitive faculty, viz.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

I do not believe that any state should make a law that permits an ignorant and poverty-stricken white man to vote, and prevents a black man in the same condition from voting.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

My best thanks are due to several correspondents for valuable hints and suggestions as to the probable etymologies of various colloquial expressions.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

In 1864 he won the quinquennial French prize of £2,000 for this ingenious application of electricity—A voltaic battery, so called from Volta, its designer, is an apparatus consisting of a series of metal plates arranged in pairs and subjected to the action of saline solutions for producing currents of electricity.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

In an instant the tramp of horses galloping forward was heard, shouts came from various sides, and then more shots.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The chief shopping centre for visitors is perhaps the Platería —a narrow street occupied by working silver-smiths—where gold and silver chains are measured off and sold by the palm, and bits of old enamel and peasant jewellery, in the shape of antique pendants and crosses, are displayed in the little windows.
— from With a Camera in Majorca by Margaret D'Este

"I reckon I don't quite understand you, Gilder," said Captain Folkner, very nervously.
— from Within The Enemy's Lines by Oliver Optic

Once, at Christmas time, he was singing carols from village to village among the woods with other boys, when a peasant came to the door of his hut, where they were singing, and said in a loud gruff voice, "Where are you, boys?"
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Volet enim, credo, S. C. facere, volet augurum decretum (rapiemur aut absentes vexabimur), vel ut consules roget praetor vel ut dictatorem dicat; quorum neutrum ius est.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Sword-fish, Xiphias gladius (Fig. 392), so called from the [603] upper jaw being elongated into a formidable spear or sword, was known to the ancients, and has borne the name which recalls its salient characteristic from very early times.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

“ Si in singulis civitatibus forent vel quinque juvenes et quinque puellae viginti annorum, integri, sine fluxibus naturae, tunc dicerem, primitiva tempora apostolorum et martyrum rediisse.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The General's elevated spirit called for vengeance on this impudent plebeian; the Jesuits encouraged him; and thus all lay in eager watch.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

Sic, cum fata volunt, bina venena juvant.
— from Lucasta by Richard Lovelace