2. You see at the first view, That this aphorism divides itself into three branches, which deserve severally to be treated of, viz.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

A courtesan worthy of the name is a beautiful woman, gracious and amiable, at whose home gather men of letters and men of the world; the first magistrates, the greatest captains: and who keeps men of all professions in a happy state of mind because she is pleasing to them, she inspires in them a desire for reciprocal pleasure: such an one was Aspasia who, after having charmed the cultured people of Athens was for a long time the good companion of Pericles, and contributed much, perhaps, towards making his century what it was, the age of taste in arts and letters.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It is impossible that any deed could have been wrought with a more thorough deliberation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

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— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

It is probably not the business of the universities to agitate reforms nor to attempt directly to influence public opinion in regard to current issues.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

says she; “it is an odd time a day to think about dinner.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I owed all these visits to the favor of M. and Madam de Luxembourg; this I felt, and my heart on that account did them all due homage.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My soul was steeped in this awful dreariness—and in fear.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

She felt as if she would like very much to smooth off the curling hair that lay thick and damp on his white, gleaming brow, but dared not.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

As for the notion of infinite space and ‘that everlasting night,’ of which the astronomical dabblers have made so much, it is nothing but a bleak fiction.
— from Papers from Lilliput by J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

There was thus left a space under where the rope was fastened, and sheer down from that a drop into the hall below.
— from Dead Man's Love by Tom Gallon

On the other hand, his tenancy of the Abbot at 'Clotone' had been broken up, half a hide of it passing to Ascelin de Waterville.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

'Tis truly a dismal life, and Mrs. Siddons has called home Sally, and Mr. Davies is making holyday at Brighthelmston, and there is nobody to make out Whist with good old Mr. Jones.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

while the perogue lay on her side, finding I could not be heard, I for a moment forgot my own situation, and involluntarily droped my gun, threw aside my shot pouch and was in the act of unbuttoning my coat, before I recollected the folly of the attempt I was about to make, which was to throw myself into the river and indevour to swim to the perogue; the perogue was three hundred yards distant the waves so high that a perogue could scarcely live in any situation, the water excessively could, and the stream rappid; had I undertaken this project therefore, there was a hundred to one but what I should have paid the forfit of my life for the madness of my project, but this had the perogue been lost, I should have valued but little.—After having all matters arranged for the evening as well as the nature of circumstances would permit, we thought it a proper occasion to console ourselves and cheer the sperits of our men and accordingly took a drink of grog and gave each man a gill of sperits.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He didn't want to lie there and die of starvation, he wanted to kill himself and be done with it without further misery—and it was a part of the ridiculous futility of his life, his baffled and broken and insignificant life, that he couldn't even kill himself competently—that he lay there suffering and ineffectual and full of self-pity, a prey to memories and harassing visions of the pas
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

For more than two hours Pierre went from one hall to another, dazzled by the masterpieces, bewildered by the accumulation of genius and beauty.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Strahinya laughed aloud when he heard all this; “O my brother,” said he, “thou aged dervish!
— from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch