My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Abajo revuelan clamoreando las pintadas guacamayas y se oye la voz de los verdes papagayos habitadores de la zona tórrida; en tanto que arriba gime la paloma torcaz y se cierne en las nubes el águila altanera. . . . .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The civil power again triumphed over that (p. 196) of the military, and circumstances existed which rendered the subversion of liberty very difficult.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Excessive joy or excessive grief will often paralyse the nervous system, including the action of the heart and the respiratory functions, and occasion the appearance of sudden death as well as shocks, blows upon the head, fright, strokes of lightning, violent displays of temper; also certain drugs now in common medical use, such as Indian hemp, atropia, digitalis, tobacco, morphia, and veratrum.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

This drew him over to another kingdom, and settled him in a scene of life very different from what he had formerly known; but, that he understood, and discharged his employment with skill and capacity, appears sufficiently by his discourse on the state of Ireland, in which there are many solid and judicious remarks, that shew him no less qualified for the business of the state, than for the entertainment of the muses.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

To remain here and live as I have done was open to him; he could have succeeded me in this wild spot without the bitterness of feeling the fall that led to it; but, in the restless spirit of our race, he might some day or other have emerged, and I dreaded to imagine what a semi-savage Luttrell would be; strong of limb, vigorous, daring, and ignorant, with pride of blood and poverty to stimulate him.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

She was sitting on the seat outside, looking very despairing.
— from Geoffrey Hampstead: A Novel by Stinson Jarvis

Spiacéu o le, vnpleasant, displeasing.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

If they did make an assault, we had bayonets, and they had not, and we could sell our lives very dearly in a rough-and-tumble.
— from The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

Before night {380} I knew that she was playing at the Royal Roscius, and that she lived in a street of little villas down Hammersmith way.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

Since you have been away she has refused two offers, one of them from a second secretary of legation, Viscount de R—-, and at the present moment she holds in holy horror all suitors.
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez