She was a severe enemy to the seduction for innocence, and confined her acquisitions solely to those unfortunate young women, who, having lost it, were but the juster objects of compassion: among these, indeed, she picked out such as suited her views and taking them under her protection, rescued them from the danger of the public sinks of ruin and misery, to place, or for them, well or ill, in the manner you have seen.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

" Towards autumn he sailed eastward to the Swedish dominions, and there harried and burnt all the country round; for he thought he had good cause of hostility against the Swedes, as they killed his father Harald.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I was beginning to take alarm, lest she should have been stricken with the strange epidemic that they said had invaded the country about us.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But to believe that this had been predicted would be to admit that the divining powers of Anaxagoras were still more wonderful, and that our knowledge of the nature of things, and indeed every thing else, would be thrown into confusion, were we to suppose either that the sun is itself composed of stone, or that there was even a stone in it; yet there can be no doubt that stones have frequently fallen from the atmosphere.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The Lady Superior even thought that she had latterly been somewhat irreverent to the community.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Now in the generality of free states, the governors and the governed alternately change place; for an equality without any preference is what nature chooses; however, when one governs and another is governed, she endeavours that there should be a distinction between them in forms, expressions, and honours; according to what Amasis said of his laver.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

There was a little backwardness in complying, for the freight looked too much for the boat; but on Riderhood's protesting 'that he had had half a dozen, dead and alive, in her afore now, and she was nothing deep in the water nor down in the stern even then, to speak of;' they carefully took their places, and trimmed the crazy thing.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Besides, Sir, I have heard of a very extraordinary Genius for Musick that lives in Switzerland , who has so strong a Spring in his Fingers, that he can make the Board of an Organ sound like a Drum, and if I could but procure a Subscription of about Ten Thousand Pound every Winter, I would undertake to fetch him over, and oblige him by Articles to set every thing that should be sung upon the English Stage.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But it must seem extraordinary, that the sovereigns of all the different countries of Europe should have exchanged in this manner for a rent certain, never more to be augmented, that branch of their revenue, which was, perhaps, of all others, the most likely to be improved by the natural course of things, without either expense or attention of their own; and that they should, besides, have in this manner voluntarily erected a sort of independent republics in the heart of their own dominions.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The philosophic Seneca had condescended to compose a similar epistle to the senate, in the name of the son and assassin of Agrippina.
— 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

In themselves the annals contain nothing improbable; indeed, what might seem the most unlikely portion of them—that which describes the extension of Sargon's empire to the shores of the Mediterranean—has been confirmed by the progress of research.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

There was general acquiescence in this suggestion; even the tormentor seemed suppressed, [297] but suddenly her eyes glared, her lips hardened, and she said:— "I suppose that scrumptious dress o' yourn was made o' scraps, too?"
— from Caleb Wright: A Story of the West by John Habberton

C3-241 A bullet with yaw has a greater surface exposed to the striking material or air, since the target or air is struck not only by the nose of the bullet, its smallest striking surface, but also by the bullet’s sides.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

“The day was come when all the folks in furs From sables, ermines, to the skins of curs, In great Augusta’s Hall each other rub’d And made it but one common powd’ring tub; Ne’er was that Hall so throng’d in days of yore, Ne’er were there seen such numerous crowds before.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

Too proud to seek a reconciliation with those who had cast him off, he had held no communication with his own family after leaving Germany; and it was not till Ernest was, as we have said, eighteen, that the silence of his home was broken by what seemed a voice from the past.
— from Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, The Christmas Guest by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

Cases not unfrequently happen where patients have repeated attacks of hæmorrhage during the early months of pregnancy, and sometimes to a considerable amount, without any apparent disturbance to the process of gestation, and are delivered of a living healthy child at the full term: on the other hand, we have known instances where the pain of the back was severe, and where, on assuming the erect posture even for a minute, the sense of weight and bearing down in the lower part of the abdomen was so great as to make the patient fear that the ovum was on the point of coming away; still even these threatening symptoms have gradually subsided, and the pregnancy has continued its natural period.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

You should let your wife recline all day long on soft armchairs, in which she sinks into a veritable bath of eiderdown or feathers; you should encourage in every way that does no violence to your conscience, the inclination which women have to breathe no other air but the scented atmosphere of a chamber seldom opened, where daylight can scarcely enter through the soft, transparent curtains.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

Until the passing of the Regulation Act, in 1773, seniority entitled them to succeed to the Council , and finally gave them pretensions to the government of the Presidency .
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Three stones settin' one on top of another means, 'This is sure enough the trail,' 'Special' or 'Particular' or 'Look out'; an' a pile of stones just throwed together means 'We camped here 'cause some one was sick.'
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton