I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At the same time no one can repeat any thing that Varilas has ever said that deserves Repetition; but the Man has that innate Goodness of Temper, that he is welcome to every Body, because every Man thinks he is so to him.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Lake Mæotis, which receives the river Tanais as it flows from the Riphæan Mountains 2784 , and forms the extreme boundary between Europe and Asia, is said to be 1406 miles in circumference; which however some writers state at only 1125.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The third by receiving wages for work done, and this either by being employed in some mean art, or else in mere bodily labour.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The merchant had no heart to eat; but Beauty endeavoured to appear cheerful, sat down to table, and helped him.
— from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

We travelled to Eastbourne, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Edinburgh, [230] Glasgow, and other cities, yet ever and anon the shabby old Dutchman seemed to turn up at odd times and places, as though springing from nowhere.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

As the next day was Sunday, I had leisure to reflect upon the singular behavior of the doctor the evening before; but either the affair was in itself too complicated, or else my memory had suffered from the effects of my strong potations, and I could arrive at no satisfactory conclusion.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The bishop, however, refused to give him leave and bade him “go to hell,” which he forthwith did, “moaning as he went, in melancholy tones, that seemed to issue from the bowels of the earth, ‘Burning, burning, everlastingly burning in hell!’
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

It did not transpire whether Robert was much disappointed at finding he was to have no further benefit from being the eldest son; perhaps the idea that Emma, by becoming entirely dependent on him, would be liable to be subject to all his caprices, and might be made a complete slave of in his house, soothed away the bitterness of his mortification.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

In 1718, two years after Colonel Fielding's experience at Princes, Mrs Fielding died, leaving six young children to her husband's care, two sons and four daughters, Henry, the eldest being but eleven years old.
— from Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden

Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

The basis of their shipping system is a color scheme, each railroad being designated by a different color—that is, the New York Central is represented by green, the Erie by blue, etc.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

At least, if any have won to rest In the fair, green land of the ever blest By earning their right therein to dwell, Jesus Garcia deserved it well, For in the blast that strewed his train, Torn in fragments, along the plain.
— from Frontier Ballads by Joseph Mills Hanson