In front of Brown's General Office building there grows a tiny plot of grass, and this, you may learn, is the only bit of green thing in Packingtown; likewise this jest about the hog and his squeal, the stock in trade of all the guides, is the one gleam of humor that you will find there.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This brand she quenched in a cool well by, Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual, Growing a bath and healthful remedy, For men diseas'd; but I, my mistress' thrall, Came there for cure and this by that I prove, Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

"Yes, you must take it, poor little girl!"
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The eldest* was a termagant, imperious, prodigal, lewd, profligate wench, as ever breathed; she used to rantipole about the house, pinch the children, kick the servants, and torture the cats and the dogs; she would rob her father's strong box, for money to give the young fellows that she was fond of.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

The return of Cantacuzene dispelled the public consternation: the emperor inclined to peaceful counsels; but he yielded to the obstinacy of his enemies, who rejected all reasonable terms, and to the ardor of his subjects, who threatened, in the style of Scripture, to break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This same temper, carried with them into political life, renders them hostile to forms, which perpetually retard or arrest them in some of their projects.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The disgusting part of it was that many of these cousins were rich, so that Lily imbibed the idea that if people lived like pigs it was from choice, and through the lack of any proper standard of conduct.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

And finally the mountain gateway opened, and the immense plain lay spread out below and stretching away into dim distances on every hand, soft and delicate and dainty and beautiful.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

We have also seen that intense pain, like rage, leads to violent outcries, and the exertion of screaming by itself gives some relief; and thus the use of the voice will have become associated with suffering of any kind.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The American woman of the nineteenth century will live only as the man saw her; probably she will be less known than the woman of the eighteenth; none of the female descendants of Abigail Adams can ever be nearly so familiar as her letters have made her; and all this is pure loss to history, for the American woman of the nineteenth century was much better company than the American man; she was probably much better company than her grandmothers.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[***] Bothwell himself escaped in a boat, and found means to get a passage to Denmark, where he was thrown into prison, lost his senses, and died miserably about ten years after; an end worthy of his flagitious conduct and behavior.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

And now, having settled that important point, let us try and get out of this place of wrath, and find Fourth Avenue."
— from Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

They were quite alone, with no envious eyes peering in the dim night light, and Love took his charming sweetheart in his arms and clasped and kissed her many times in passionate love.
— from Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

The Arabs had established themselves firmly on the coast, and thence made continual slave-raids into the interior, penetrating later to the Congo.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Dewey was reported to have said at two different times, in public lectures or speeches during the fall of 1850 and the winter of 1851, that 'he would send his mother into slavery, rather than endanger the Union, by resisting this law enacted by the constituted government of the nation.'
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

She sighed, and went to the rickety bamboo-table, where the inkstand stood on a cracked plate, and the ivory pen lay in demoralized familiarity, with a red [Pg 209] wooden penholder belonging to Anne-Marie.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti

He found that whilst the introduction of 168 quantities of Bacillus coli or Bacillus proteus increased the intestinal putrefaction, lactic bacilli notably lessened it.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books Fcap.
— from A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909 by Methuen & Co.

The fortress had for many years been converted into a prison, and may well bear the inscription which Dante read on the infernal portals, “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.”
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh