THE DRESSING MAKE THUS: TAKE THYME, FLEA-BANE, PEPPER, ORIGANY, HONEY, VINEGAR, REDUCED WINE, DATE WINE, IF YOU LIKE [2] BROTH AND A LITTLE OIL.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He did not hate the Winter now, for he knew that it was merely the Spring asleep, and that the flowers were resting.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

But promise me, ere thou undertakest their deliverance, to go and help me afterwards, and free me and many other ladies that are distressed by a false knight.” “Bring me but to this felon Turquine,” quoth Sir Lancelot, “and I will afterwards fulfil all your wishes.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

But Gania first conducted the prince to the family apartments.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It is a creature that I teach to fight, To wind, to stop, to run directly on, His corporal motion govern’d by my spirit.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The British troops, for the greater display of their numbers, and more formidable appearance, were ranged upon the rising grounds, so that the first line stood upon the plain, the rest, as if linked together, rose above one another upon the ascent.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

“Mr. Syme is saying,” called out Ratcliffe to the French Colonel, “that this man, at least, will never be an anarchist.”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless 163 towers of Ilium— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

On, on; the torches flickering; grotesque shadows
— from Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama by Henry Harrison Lewis

Curtis tells us that “in Scotland one-third of the crop was lost, and the farmers suffered severely in 1828 and the three following years;” whilst “in Suffolk the yield [19] of wheat was one-third less in some districts in 1841 than was expected.”
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
— from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

However, both companies will, I imagine, be complete in a few days: there are now upwards of 30 men in each, exclusive of officers, who are now and have been employed since their enlistment in such service as is thought most safe and encouraging to the Frontier inhabitants, who are here and everywhere else in the back countries quite sunk and dispirited, so that it’s to be feared that on any attack of the enemy, a considerable part of the country will be evacuated, as all seem inclinable to seek safety rather in flight than in opposing the Savage Foe.”
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

We dwelt on the inspired pages of the poets, I, with old age's returning love for the romantic, and increasing reverence for the true, and she, with the intense, bewildered delight of a spirit that hoped all things, and a simple faith that trusted the future would brightly fulfill all the fairest prospects which poetry could portray.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Various

Four years or thereabouts now follow, before any important [Pg 86] change takes place in the child's condition, for it is not until between six and seven years old that the first set of teeth begin to be shed, and the second to take their place.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

My wisdom was of too great value to them for me to depart. . .
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

They were just skirting the easterly base of the Snowdon Hills, where, three thousand feet above them, the rugged mountain peaks look down upon the broad and beautiful Vale of Conway, when a noise of crackling branches ahead startled the wary archer, Wallys, and he said to Lionel: "Look to thine arms, lad; there may be danger here.
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks

Just below the forks of Pigeon Roost Creek the trail that followed its banks widened into a track wide enough for wagon wheels.
— from The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb