Now, besides the vulgarity of such expressions, there is much in slang that is objectionable in a moral point of view.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

There are many ways of bringing about this interference, I mean of bracketing in the same expression two independent meanings that apparently tally.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Admonished by such examples, the Ismenian matrons frequent the new worship, and offer frankincense, and reverence the sacred altars.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

But very small children can recall such experiences, though in most cases their recollection is worthless, their circle of ideas being so small that the commonest experiences are excluded from adequate description.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The much criticized “unnatural union of sugar and meats” of the ancients still exists today in many popular examples of cookery: lamb and mint sauce, steak and catsup, mutton and currant jelly, pork and apples (in various forms), oyster cocktail, poultry and compôte, goose with apple and raisin dressing, venison and Cumberland sauce, mince pie, plum pudding—typical survivals of ancient traditions.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The place lies on the direct road from Lacedaemon to Olympia, about twenty furlongs from the temple of Zeus in Olympia, and within the sacred enclosure there is meadow-land and wood-covered hills, suited to the breeding of pigs and goats and cattle and horses, so that even the sumpter animals of the pilgrims passing to the feast fare sumptuously.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

All the time she examined me curiously and when I looked at the photograph-album she explained: "This is my uncle....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Next day he gave orders that all should employ themselves in making preparations and getting themselves into a fit state of body.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

If I say, that in any creature breathing is only a function indispensable to vitality, inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a certain element, which being subsequently brought into contact with the blood imparts to the blood its vivifying principle, I do not think I shall err; though I may possibly use some superfluous scientific words.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It cost some effort to induce Miss Badlam to let them go out of her hands.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

We know that mind has the power to maintain substance even though it may not be able to create substance—the latter is still an open question.
— from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This water we see exists on Mars, but in very scant amount, so that if life of any sort exists there, it must be chiefly dependent on the semi-annual unlocking of the polar snows for its supply, inasmuch as there are no surface bodies of it over the rest of the planet.
— from Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

There was a good deal of applause, but also considerable hissing from the religions element, so I made a speech explaining that I meant no disrespect to "Old Hundred" by placing it in such close connection with "Yankee Doodle," and that the melody which had to a certain extent been adopted as a national air was on that account worthy of being played with any hymn.
— from Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason

An allegory is sometimes so extended that it makes a volume; as in the case of Swift's "Tale of a Tub," Arbuthnot's "John Bull," Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," etc. Fables and parables are short allegories.
— from The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Alfred Ayres

But the chapter De Deo Creatore did not pass [pg 397] so easily, though it might have been expected that, at the end of four months, the Bishops would have arrived at some agreement on that point.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger