The costermonger often speaks of his dinner, when he has beef, as a “bit o’ BULL ,” without any reference to its being either tough or tender, but he never speaks of mutton as “sheep.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it, as every man doth.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘Tis a generous desire to wish to die usefully and like a man, but the effect lies not so much in our resolution as in our good fortune; a thousand have proposed to themselves in battle, either to overcome or to die, who have failed both in the one and the other, wounds and imprisonment crossing their design and compelling them to live against their will.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Though I be engaged to one forme, I do not tie the world unto it
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This reservoir was supported by twelve iron bulls, each three of which turned in a different direction.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

It should be noted that whenever the incidents become especially tragic or romantic or weird or poetic, the ‘homeliness’ of the style goes—the style at once rises p. 329 to the occasion, it becomes not only rich, but too rich for prose.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

The berths shall be properly constructed, and be separated from each other by partitions, as berths ordinarily are separated, and each berth shall be at least two feet in width and six feet in length; and the interval between the floor or lowest part of {119} the lower tier of berths and the deck beneath them shall not be less than six inches, nor the interval between each tier of berths, and the interval between the uppermost tier and the deck above it, less than two feet six inches; and each berth shall be occupied by not more than one passenger over eight years of age; but double berths of twice the above-mentioned width may be provided, each double berth to be occupied by no more and by none other than two women, or by one woman and two children under the age of eight years, or by husband and wife, or by a man and two of his own children under the age of eight years, or by two men personally acquainted with each other.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

Every person of rank carefully abstained from coming near us, Kochai Sahac, being the channel of reference to the chief Suri-Wong Montree, who is not among the persons of the highest rank, but only acting [6] Barkalan, the chief, whose office this is, being either too old, or otherwise incapable of attending to his duties.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

But touching it, booms echo to our ear Of graver import, unimpeachable.
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy

However, for the present, my good cousin, I trust your mind will be sufficiently employed on the reflections to which our conversation has given rise, to make you forget the treachery and deceit of Donna Theresa—qualities which, you seem to insinuate, belong exclusively to our order.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

To each of these was allotted the character of some noted speaker in the House, who did his best to personate the individual by every trait of manner, voice, and action, while a grave, imposing-looking man, named Doran, was a capital counterfeit of the “Speaker.” O'Shea explained to Heathcote that the great advantage of this scheme consisted in the way it secured one against surprises; no possible interruption being omitted, nor any cavilling objection spared to the orator.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever