Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to a minute.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Impudenter se exponunt masculorum aspectibus, jactantes tunicas, et coram tripudiantes , impudently thrust themselves into other men's companies, and by their indecent wanton carriage provoke and tempt the spectators.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With regard to the use of the word restive by the author of the Eclipse of Faith , that is purely a matter of taste, which it is unnecessary here to discuss; but I hope that the foregoing opinion of one who in his day passed for the most accomplished horseman of Europe, will suffice to show that, in the passage quoted, the term is not so entirely misapplied as J. R. supposes.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

At least, that is the view I hold of a respectable woman’s fall, and that is what makes it so terrible——” Instead of looking for the meaning of these speeches, Etienne made a jest of them at Malaga’s, whither he went with his father-in-law elect; for the notary and the journalist were the best of friends.
— from The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac

And unfortunately warm-blooded and soft-skinned excellent men are just the ones least remarkable for steadiness and moderation in bearing the poetical sorrows which authors send them.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

He remembers every time, every season, every sermon, every minister, affliction, judgment, mercy, awakening, pattern, example, citation, provocation; he remembers all.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

As for me--" And Bartley spoke of his own income, just what he could afford to spend each month, and just how much he managed to save, and his ambition to earn more.
— from Partners of Chance by Henry Herbert Knibbs

THE TRADITIONAL LOGIC.—Most of us begin our acquaintance with logic in the study of some such elementary manual as Jevons' "Lessons in Logic."
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

"I didn't see her," said Ellen Montgomery, as John's eye met hers.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Franklin was reached on the 11th, but Jackson approached cautiously, and did not reach there till the 12th, when, finding that Frémont had united his forces, he did not attack, but returned to McDowell, whence he took the direct road to Harrisonburg, and then marched to attack Banks at Strasburg, Ewell meeting and joining him in this movement.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

On the 7th of June the Scottish Estates met, and James excluded such of the representatives as he knew were hostile to his object of establishing the English Church in all its forms and authority, as the State Church of Scotland for ever.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous