The struggle which arises between elements thus unnaturally brought together causes shivering.
— from Timaeus by Plato

To the right end of the lever is affixed a sapphire bar, or stylus, with a ball end of a diameter equal to that of the cutting point of the recorder.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

We parted in the same way as before, except that this time the marquis remained with Zenobia.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sly is discovered in a rich nightgown, with Attendants : some with apparel, basin, ewer, and other appurtenances; and Lord , dressed like a servant.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But is opinion to be sought without and beyond either of them, in a greater clearness than knowledge, or in a greater darkness than ignorance?
— from The Republic by Plato

My father—his army same weapons as Black Emperor's.
— from The Revolt of the Star Men by Raymond Z. Gallun

[463] The world can never know the cruelties perpetrated under a system which relieved the tribunals from accountability, and consequently any supervision was a benefit, even that imperfectly exercised by the distant Suprema.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

And she has a right to feel that way, because, without the public knowing anything about it, he rescued, if I may use that term, that marvellous girl, that wonderful Southern girl, that girl who was stone deaf, blind, and dumb from scarlet-fever when she was a baby eighteen months old; and who now is as well and thoroughly educated as any woman on this planet at twenty-nine years of age.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

“I have come to look after ‘milord Cardot,’” she added, speaking with a burlesque English accent.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It is hardly necessary to say we all breathed easier as the waterspout sailed majestically away, and in a few minutes was out of sight.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

And both were mellowed and reënforced by the hint that such a noble assault, beside being safe, would also be extremely profitable—that it would convert very dubious debts into very good debts, and dispose forever of a diligent and dangerous competitor for trade, especially in Latin America.
— from Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken