Through him all my good is conueighed vnto me; and to him all my endeavours shall be contributed as to the ocean."
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

Mrs. Bird, looking the very picture of delight, was superintending the arrangements of the table, ever and anon mingling admonitory remarks to a number of frolicsome juveniles, who were effervescing in all those modes of untold gambol and mischief that have astonished mothers ever since the flood.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For she says, for all she's been so set again' having one extry in the house, and making extry spoons and things, and putting her about in her ways, you shall have a shelter in her house, if you'll go to her dutiful, and she'll uphold you against folks as say harm of you when they've no call.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Alps, the highest and most extensive system of mountains in Europe, included between lat.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I know he doth deserve As much as may be yielded to a man; But Nature never fram’d a woman’s heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice; Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on, and her wit Values itself so highly, that to her All matter else seems weak.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

And when I entered told me that himself And Merlin ever served about the King, Uther, before he died; and on the night When Uther in Tintagil past away Moaning and wailing for an heir, the two Left the still King, and passing forth to breathe, Then from the castle gateway by the chasm Descending through the dismal night—a night In which the bounds of heaven and earth were lost— Beheld, so high upon the dreary deeps It seemed in heaven, a ship, the shape thereof
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

There were no spectacular acrobatics, such as only the young can perform, but for all-around development they had a most excellent system.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Doctor was a philosopher, a metaphysician, a philanthropist, and in the highest and most earnest sense a minister of good on earth.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Another programme in my collection, dated the Théâtre Scarboro, Friday evening, August 4th, 1837, announces “For a limited engagement of three nights the Three Talented Highlanders and most extraordinary Second-Sighted Young Highlanders.”
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

Each society endeavored to hold a meeting every Sabbath for Divine worship.
— from Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. (James Calvin) McFeeters

And the judgment with which the new arrangement met the requirements of the community may be regarded as proved by the circumstance that now, after the lapse of nearly half a century, it is maintained in active operation, and is admitted by all parties not only to be of the greatest practical benefit, but also to have a moral effect scarcely less valuable in the degree in which it has stimulated the application of private munificence to the great work of Church extension.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

And prayer is made, and praise is given, By all things near and far; The ocean looketh up to heaven, And mirrors every star.
— from The Tent on the Beach, and other poems Part 4 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

As he rose to go he said,— 'Well, if you want to hear a more explicit statement of our wrongs, our principles, and our hopes, and you don't mind rubbing shoulders with English workmen for an hour or two—and if you're not too strict Sabbatarians, by-the-way—you might come down to a Radical club in Soho.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

If so, we may infer that morality--the proper conduct of men as regards one another in social relations--is better understood among us than it was among the patriarchs four thousand years ago; and hence, that as nations advance in civilization they have a more enlightened sense of duty, and practically a higher morality.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord