The stump of her foremast was the only stick standing; her cabin had been stove in; every gun, except a single one, was dismounted; and her deck was covered with shattered limbs and dead bodies.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

234b peaneg = pening pear-roc , -ruc m. ‘ clatrum ,’ fence with which a space is enclosed , Gl : enclosure, enclosed land , Bo, Chr, KC ; ÆL.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

He led public opinion, but did not march so far in advance of it as to fail of its effective support in every great emergency.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

She is ever gentle except with the Goddess who betrayed her, and the unworthy lover whose lot she is compelled to share.
— from Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang

She is evidently growing extremely nervous.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

Space is the only requisite and if the shelf room is exhausted, the floor space is equally good, except for the inconvenience of stooping.
— from A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library by Melvil Dewey

“How shall I ever get even with you?”
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

To the unobserving mind the murder of George W. Ashburn would seem totally unavenged; but to him who sees in every great event the hand of an over-ruling Providence, evolving good from evil, a different conclusion must be arrived at.
— from The Nation's Peril. Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation. by Anonymous

There is a stage in every great enterprise humanity has ever undertaken when it might be so characterised: and the greatest of all enterprises, when an obscure Jew stood forth to become light and life, not to a tribe or a race, but to humanity, was to the judgers according to appearance of His day, the most Quixotic and impossible of all.
— from The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown

This princess, fresh and young, and fair and wise, The worshipped idol of her father's eyes, Did all her sex in every grace exceed, And had more wit beside than women need.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden