A single selection is given to show how, in the nobler passages, even Pope may faintly suggest the elemental grandeur of Homer: The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the Indians are extravegantly fond of sheet iron of which they form arrow-points and manufacter into instruments for scraping and dressing their buffaloe robes—I permited the blacksmith to dispose of a part of a sheet-iron callaboos which had been nearly birnt out on our passage up the river, and for each piece about four inches square he obtained from seven to eight gallons of corn from the natives who appeared extreemly pleased with the exchange- H2 anchor [Lewis, February 7, 1805] 7th February Thursday 1805.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On the front of his sale-board hung a little placard, like a kettle-holder, bearing the inscription in his own small text: Errands gone On with fi Delity By Ladies and Gentlemen I remain Your humble Servt: Silas Wegg He had not only settled it with himself in course of time, that he was errand-goer by appointment to the house at the corner (though he received such commissions not half a dozen times in a year, and then only as some servant's deputy), but also that he was one of the house's retainers and owed vassalage to it and was bound to leal and loyal interest in it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

They also say, that the most important privilege in man is, the being able to persuade his soul to either good or bad.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Then came her freedom, for she had no mother, So that, her father being at sea, she was Free as a married woman, or such other Female, as where she likes may freely pass, Without even the incumbrance of a brother, The freest she that ever gazed on glass; I speak of Christian lands in this comparison, Where wives, at least, are seldom kept in garrison.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

sacar t extract, get out, get, draw (out) ( from , de or dat. ); discover; —— de un error free from an error.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Nikolay Parfenovitch Nelyudov had been intending for three days past to drop in that evening at Mihail Makarovitch's, so to speak casually, so as slyly to startle the eldest granddaughter, Olga Mihailovna, by showing that he knew her secret, that he knew it was her birthday, and that she was trying to conceal it on purpose, so as not to be obliged to give a dance.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The circumjacent country is equally destitute of trees for the uses of shade or building, but some large beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders: a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso, 109 was cut down: the necessary timber was transported to the camp by the vigor and dexterity of Tancred; and the engines were framed by some Genoese artists, who had fortunately landed in the harbor of Jaffa.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The whole place presents its very best appearance this current month—the full flush of the trees, the plentiful white and pink of the flowering shrubs, the emerald green of the grass spreading everywhere, yellow dotted still with dandelions—the specialty of the plentiful gray rocks, peculiar to these grounds, cropping out, miles and miles—and over all the beauty and purity, three days out of four, of our summer skies.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

To make the brine, use a heaping pint of salt to each gallon of water.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

Grave, but in ecstasy, they play on the harp or the theorbo, on the Viol d'Amore or the rebeck, singing the eternal glory of the most Holy Mother.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Use half a teacup of common salt or sea salt to each gallon of water.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

About eight ounces of the double sulphate to each gallon of distilled or rain water is a good proportion to use when making up a bath.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

After a short sitting they arose, and four of the number, Saulus being one, passed to the acacia table, where [pg 86] they seated themselves, each grasping one of its horns, and turning a fixed gaze into the transparent deeps of the great crystal which hung in their midst.
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood

“But just wait until you see the elephant get over the ground,” he retorted.
— from The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

INGREDIENTS.—6 oz. of salt to each gallon of water.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

"Having once arrived at the conclusion that some book had been used as the basis of the cryptogram, my next supposition that each group of three sets of numbers showed the page of the book, the number of the line from the top, and the position of the required word in that line, seemed at once borne out by an analysis of the figures themselves.
— from Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight