See, fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the Chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Our conversation turned upon living in the country, which Johnson, whose melancholy mind required the dissipation of quick successive variety, had habituated himself to consider as a kind of mental imprisonment.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Republic I. A NALYSIS. … Enough of this: the other assertion of Thrasymachus is far xxii more important—that the unjust life is more gainful than the just.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

His two long poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," contain much poetic fancy; but it must be said of both that the subjects are unpleasant, and that they are dragged out to unnecessary length in order to show the play of youthful imagination.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

He removed the oppressive restrictions which had been laid upon commerce, and granted all the uncultivated lands in Italy and the provinces to those who would improve them; with an exemption from tribute during the term of ten years.
— 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

It is made of various sizes, but the usual length is about three feet.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Mr. Brooke, who had before heard only imperfect hints of it, and was very uneasy that he had "gone a little too far" in countenancing Bulstrode, now got himself fully informed, and felt some benevolent sadness in talking to Mr. Farebrother about the ugly light in which Lydgate had come to be regarded.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The upper lines indicate the scope of greatest expression.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The shortness of the arms, as compared with the height of the upper limb, is striking.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance

Turning from a final cheer to friendly Matthew, Weyburn at the rudder espied one of those unenfranchised ladies in marine uniform issuing through the tent-slit.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

And as the divisions approached within range Jackson's left poured a deadly fire of musketry upon them, which mowed down brave men in the Union lines in swaths, leaving broad gaps where men had stood.
— from Battles of the Civil War by Thomas Elbert Vineyard

[1153] to which the unhappy lexicographer is doomed, and is known to have written his splendid imitation of Juvenal with astonishing rapidity
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

If I catch you by the upper lip I'm a good fisherman.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in New England; or, An Exciting Quest in the Maine Wilderness by Frank Gee Patchin

He predicts, rather too glowingly perhaps, that in another generation even “the unskilled laborer, if sober and industrious, will have a house of his own, a library, a piano and a horse and carriage,” with all the comforts that these imply.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

of Fahrenheit, and highly inflammable, it dissolves resins and volatile oils, and is, therefore, used largely in perfumery.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

Pour in custard until only the surface of the upper layer is visible, but not enough to float them.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

For Tonga read Westminster—where a good deal of tongue —ah!—goes on—and we get a result something like this:— "After the usual luncheon interval, the Leader of the Opposition and the ex-Umpire-General faced the delivery of the First Commissioner of Stumps and the Scorin' Secretary.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894 by Various