Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Cosí adunque invitando spesso la giovane Rustico, et al servigio di Dio confortandolo, se la bambagia del farsetto tratta gli avea, che egli a talora sentiva freddo, che un' altro sarebbe sudato; e perciò egli incominciò a dire alla giovane, che il diavolo non era da gastigare, né da rimettere in inferno, se non quando egli per superbia levasse il capo; e noi, per la grazia, di Dio, l'abbiamo sí sgannato, che egla priega Iddio di starsi in pace: e cosí alquanto impose di silenzio alla giovane.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I found it hard to preserve my self-control, when I looked round, and saw women who were nurses, as I was, and only one shade lighter in complexion, eyeing me with a defiant look, as if my presence were a contamination.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

As when in the depth of air adverse winds rise in battle with equal spirit and strength; not they, not clouds nor sea, yield one to another; long the battle is doubtful; all stands locked in counterpoise: even thus clash the ranks of Troy and ranks of Latium, foot fast on foot, and man crowded up on man.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The removal by a District Grand Lodge, or a subordinate lodge, is called "exclusion."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In England, ejection from a membership by a subordinate lodge is called "exclusion," and it does not deprive the party of his general rights as a member of the fraternity.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Sir Leicester is content enough that the ironmaster should feel that there is no hurry there; there, in that ancient house, rooted in that quiet park, where the ivy and the moss have had time to mature, and the gnarled and warted elms and the umbrageous oaks stand deep in the fern and leaves of a hundred years; and where the sun-dial on the terrace has dumbly recorded for centuries that time which was as much the property of every Dedlock—while he lasted—as the house and lands.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The repetition of single lines is common enough.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

If it rains more than twice [pg 375] as often, we may be sure that some law is concerned; either there is some cause in nature which, in this climate, tends to produce both rain and a westerly wind, or a westerly wind has itself some tendency to produce rain.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The Southern leaders in Congress even tried to deprive the President of his Constitutional veto—tried to starve the army, and even to protract the session of Congress.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

When the bride was so long in coming, everybody looked at King Olaf to see if he were uneasy.
— from From a Swedish Homestead by Selma Lagerlöf

Somewhat later, if carefully examined with a lens, little round, white bodies may be seen scattered among the filaments.
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

The modern contrivance for making a bishop a tenant on a short lease is calmly exposed.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

This reference to Napoleon's childlessness and the dependence of his system on his single life is clear enough.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

acid in particular is corrosive in its action when taken in concentrated solution, losing its corrosive effect and becoming irritant when more dilute.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward