The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, calling them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

In two hours she came in looking quite frightened, the old house-keeper having told her that I had broken my leg, and that the doctor had been with me already.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

this Sand Coast is low and Slashey,) Crossed the point 2 miles to the bay and encamped on Chinnook river—See another book for perticulars H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The eager pressure of the boy writer soon crumpled its leaves; and then the edges got frayed, and twisted up claw-like as if to hold fast the writing within, till at last, down what river Baitarani [17] I know not, its pages were swept away by merciful oblivion.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

One of the apartments of the palace was decorated with a carpet of silk, sixty cubits in length, and as many in breadth: a paradise or garden was depictured on the ground: the flowers, fruits, and shrubs, were imitated by the figures of the gold embroidery, and the colors of the precious stones; and the ample square was encircled by a variegated and verdant border.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Mitya Chapter I. Kuzma Samsonov Chapter II. Lyagavy Chapter III.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I muse on joy that will not cease, Pure spaces clothed in living beams, Pure lilies of eternal peace, Whose odours haunt my dreams; And, stricken by an angel's hand, This mortal armour that I wear, This weight and size, this heart and eyes, Are touch'd, are turn'd to finest air.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Lastly, this emotion (III. xlviii.), in so far as it is attributable to several causes, is less powerful in regard to each of them.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man's hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Norries gazed at him steadfastly, with his brow contracted with a steady, contemplative, inquiring look; and then he replied, "I do beseech you, Sir Arthur Adelon, to banish such thoughts, to let the faults of the dead, if faults there were, rest with the dead.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I am sure that much of the satisfaction of some circles in London will be lost by it.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

At once it became a great crocodile, seven cubits in length, and, opening its horrid jaws, seized on the page and dragged him under.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

We can further see that the waves would naturally leave the smooth bottom of each great bay or channel, as it became slowly converted into land, gently inclined to as many points as there were mouths, through which the sea finally retreated, thus forming so many watersheds, without any marked ridges, on a nearly level surface.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

HYPÆPA, a small city in Lydia , now rased to the ground.
— from A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

Thus, in the course of a few days, the offspring of this stationary creature may be carried to a very great distance from its parent; and having been so carried it loses these organs by which it is propelled, and settles down upon the bottom of the sea and grows up again into the form and condition of its parents.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley