Garcaeus and Leovitius will have the chief judgment to be taken from the lord of the geniture, or where there is an aspect between the moon and Mercury, and neither behold the horoscope, or Saturn and Mars shall be lord of the present conjunction or opposition in Sagittarius or Pisces, of the sun or moon, such persons are commonly epileptic, dote, demoniacal, melancholy: but see more of these aphorisms in the above-named Pontanus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

One glass of wine kills nobody; and yet if a man falls, and knows that in that glass he sacrifices principle and conscience, every drop may be poison to the soul and body.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In 1882 Professor Skeat published "A Concise Etymological Dictionary," which is something more than an abridgment, and a book which should find a place in all libraries of reference.
— from How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

The air seemed pure and clear enough during our two weeks' stay, but every one admitted its very unwholesome character.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

Miss Saville did not find Wilton so pleasant a companion, either during their ride or the luncheon which preceded it, as he had been at dinner the day before.
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander