From a literary view point Milton's prose would be stronger if less violent, and a modern writer would hardly be excused for using his language or his methods; but we must remember the times and the methods of his opponents.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

“More grace than boy, say I,” laughed Valentine, and the only punishment which Proteus had to bear for his treacheries against love and friendship was the recital in his presence of the adventures of Julia-Sebastian of Verona.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The red-headed boy and quite a flock of kids of about his age were sitting on the sidewalk, outside the fence, arguing something in loud voices, and finally he heard them agree to leave it to Uncle Ike, and then they piled over the fence and came up to the porch, and the red-headed boy was the spokesman.
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Yre , n. 1 iron, XIII a 44; Yrne , V 199; Yrnes , pl. irons (supporting injured leg), VIII a 130.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

Doubtless a searching and impetuous soul Might learn from its own motions that some task Like this awaited it about the world; Might seek somewhere in this blank life of ours For fit delights to stay its longings vast; And, grappling Nature, so prevail on her To fill the creature full she dared thus frame Hungry for joy; and, bravely tyrannous, Grow in demand, still craving more and more, And make each joy conceded prove a pledge Of other joy to follow—bating naught Of its desires, still seizing fresh pretence To turn the knowledge and the rapture wrung As an extreme, last boon, from destiny, Into occasion for new covetings, New strifes, new triumphs:—doubtless a strong soul, Alone, unaided might attain to this, So glorious is our nature, so august Man's inborn uninstructed impulses, His naked spirit so majestical!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

"When Jack went East to that directors' meeting he stopped over Sunday in Lloydsboro Valley, and Betty was home from Warwick Hall on her Easter vacation, and he saw her again, and well— they're engaged!
— from Mary Ware's Promised Land by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Rowland asked, with a sympathetic inflection, looking vaguely at the roughly modeled figure.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

This is seen in leaking vessels, and in fullers when they fan or blow their cloths.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Sulphur, selenium, and tellurium, form an isomeric group; that is, they form a sequence, with analogous qualities, for sulphur is the most volatile; selenium, a simple substance found in iron pyrites in Sweden, is less volatile; and tellurium is the least volatile and with regard to their atomic sequence, the atomic weight of sulphur is 16, that of tellurium is 64, and half the sum of these numbers is 40, the atomic weight of selenium, the mean term.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

"Well, they're most faithful to what they consider their duty, then," said Patty, laughing, for even as she spoke they were whizzing through a straggling, insignificant little village, and dogs of all sizes and colours seemed to spring up suddenly from nowhere at all, and act as if about to devour the car and its occupants.
— from Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells

The soldiers stood about, speculating in low voices and gradually quieting as the word passed about on the uneasy wings of gossip that Ermine had shot Butler in the arm, wounding [Pg 242] him badly, and that the scout had gone into the earth or up in the air, for divil the hide nor hair of him could the guard find.
— from John Ermine of the Yellowstone by Frederic Remington