[5740] Candida sideriis ardescant lumina flammis, Sudent colla rosas, et cedat crinibus aurum, Mellea purpurem depromant ora ruborem; Fulgeat, ac Venerem coelesti corpore vincat, Forma dearum omnis, &c. Let her be such a one throughout, as Lucian deciphers in his Imagines, as Euphranor of old painted Venus, Aristaenetus describes Lais, another Helena, Chariclea, Leucippe, Lucretia, Pandora; let her have a box of beauty to repair herself still, such a one as Venus gave Phaon, when he carried her over the ford; let her use all helps art and nature can yield; be like her, and her, and whom thou wilt, or all these in one; a little sickness, a fever, small-pox, wound, scar, loss of an eye, or limb, a violent passion, a distemperature of heat or cold, mars all in an instant, disfigures all; child-bearing, old age, that tyrant time will turn Venus to Erinnys; raging time, care, rivels her upon a sudden; after she hath been married a small while, and the black ox hath trodden on her toe, she will be so much altered, and wax out of favour, thou wilt not know her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"(3) When civil or social changes require ecclesiastical changes.
— from A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington

The youngster, having suffered so cruelly, received every compensation his friends could give him.
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The remembrance of the long, sharp claws he had seen around the neck of the Sioux chief, Running Elk, caused Dick to decide on the former course.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

It had been an ordeal that of dressing while her cross room-mate, who made a virtue of what she called "retiring" early, continued at intervals to extend her head like a turtle's from its shell, and inquire whether Miss Winstanley would be very much longer!
— from Latter-Day Sweethearts by Harrison, Burton, Mrs.

Another part of our work was defending people from unjust landlords, exposing workhouse scandals, enforcing the Employers' Liability Act, Charles Bradlaugh's Truck Act, forming "Vigilance Circles" whose members kept watch in their own district over cases of cruelty to children, extortion, insanitary workshops, sweating, &c., reporting each case to me.
— from Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant

"Pour suivre les vicissitudes des luttes extérieures des Romains contre les peuples qui les entourent et les pressent de tous côtés, nous n'aurons qu'à regarder à l'horizon la sublime campagne romaine et ces montagnes qui l'encadrent si admirablement.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Now, she could review everything calmly, she felt in her heart that Humphrey was right, but there was the sense of wounded pride with her.
— from Mightier than the Sword by Alphonse Courlander

Inns were, we must believe, the favourite home of adventures, and Smollett could ring endless changes on mistakes about bedrooms.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

The woodland growth, upon the lower part of the Canadian, consists of cotton-wood, sycamore, white, blue, and black ash, swamp cedar, red elm, coffee tree, yellow wood, sugar tree, box elder, white and black walnut, wild cherry, mulberry, &c. in the river valley; and hickory, white and post oak, black jack, black oak, &c. upon the adjacent uplands.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say