Though rocks and quicksands deep through all my passage lie, Yet Christ shall safely keep and guide me with his eye.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

He who spoke so decisively of the supremacy in the imaginative world of the unveiled human form had not been always, we may think, a mere Platonic lover.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Well, my dear, said he, and I bless God for it too!—I do most sincerely!—And 'tis my greater pleasure, because I have, as I hoped, seen my error so early; and that with such a stock of youth and health on my side, in all appearance, I can truly abhor my past liberties, and pity poor Sally Godfrey, from the same motives that I admire my Pamela's virtues; and resolve to make myself as worthy of them as possible:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In spite of these defects he was much sought after in society as he told a good tale and made people laugh.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Then is there a great brewhouse, and Puddle wharf, a watergate into the Thames, where horses use to water, and therefore being defiled with their trampling, and made puddle, like as also of one Puddle dwelling there, it is called Puddle wharf.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

17 The next two consuls, Marcus Fabius Ambustus a second time, and Marcus Popillius Lænas a second time, had two wars on their hands.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Fern being burned, the smoke thereof drives away serpents, gnats, and other noisome creatures, which in fenny countries do in the night time, trouble and molest people lying in their beds with their faces uncovered; it causes barrenness.
— 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

TRUDGET, s. A trick, a mischievous prank, Loth.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

“I suppose there are more planes like this one,” remarked Jim.
— from Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

And now pretty soon the islands grew closter 34 and closter together, and we wouldn’t no more than go by one lovely one, than another more perfect lookin’ hove in sight, and then another and another, each one seemin’ly more beautiful than the last.
— from Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

The alleged Marco Polo Lo-han bears the number 100, and his name is Shan-chu tsun-che ( tsun-che being a translation of Sanskrit arya , "holy, reverend").
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

I answer that, We can gather to what things life belongs, and to what it does not, from such things as manifestly possess life.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It is supposed by some of the Welsh, and in some notes to a poem the author (Mr. P. Lewellyn) says he has been confidently assured, that the leek, as is generally supposed to be, is not the original emblem of Wales, but the sive, or chive, which is common to almost every peasant's garden.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 by Various

The tendency is rather to form clusters of soil grains which, though touching at many points, leave comparatively large empty spaces.
— from Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe