Long were to tell What I have don, what sufferd, with what paine 470 Voyag'd the unreal, vast, unbounded deep Of horrible confusion, over which By Sin and Death a broad way now is pav'd To expedite your glorious march; but I Toild out my uncouth passage, forc't to ride Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in the womb Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde, That jealous of thir secrets fiercely oppos'd My journey strange, with clamorous uproare Protesting Fate supreame; thence how I found 480 The new created World, which fame in Heav'n Long had foretold, a Fabrick wonderful Of absolute perfection, therein Man Plac't in a Paradise, by our exile Made happie: Him by fraud I have seduc'd From his Creator, and the more to increase Your wonder, with an Apple; he thereat Offended, worth your laughter, hath giv'n up Both his beloved Man and all his World, To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us, 490 Without our hazard, labour or allarme, To range in, and to dwell, and over Man To rule, as over all he should have rul'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Sopra un nuovo alcaloide contenuto nel caffè.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Neither a religious sense of a certain moral validity in the previous union nor a conscientious wish for candour could hold out against it much longer.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But it cannot be denied, that the Oriental churches are depressed under their iron yoke; that, in peace and war, they assert a divine and indefeasible claim of universal empire; and that, in their orthodox creed, the unbelieving nations are continually threatened with the loss of religion or liberty.
— 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

The first form was used until nearly a century ago, when it was corrupted along with so many things of greater importance.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

As long as the case remained unique no answer could be given.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I have looked after the wild stock of the town, which give a faithful herdsman a good deal of trouble by leaping fences; and I have had an eye to the unfrequented nooks and corners of the farm; though I did not always know whether Jonas or Solomon worked in a particular field to-day; that was none of my business.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The credence!” He stammered, choked, with arms outstretched toward the empty places, toward the denuded walls where naught remained but the useless nails and cords.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

The Hungarians, when their king Ladislaus and bravest soldiers were slain by the Turks, Luctus publicus , &c. The Venetians when their forces were overcome by the French king Lewis, the French and Spanish kings, pope, emperor, all conspired against them, at Cambray, the French herald denounced open war in the senate: Lauredane Venetorum dux , &c., and they had lost Padua, Brixia, Verona, Forum Julii, their territories in the continent, and had now nothing left, but the city of Venice itself, et urbi quoque ipsi (saith [2344] Bembus) timendum putarent , and the loss of that was likewise to be feared, tantus repente dolor omnes tenuit, ut nunquam, alias , &c., they were pitifully plunged, never before in such lamentable distress.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Dolly stood up now, and cast her eyes behind her on the horizon, and all about.
— from A Campfire Girl's Happiness by Jane L. Stewart

The Human Drift Transcribed from the 1919 Mills and Boon edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE HUMAN DRIFT by Jack London Contents: The Human Drift Small-Boat Sailing Four Horses and a Sailor Nothing that Ever Came to Anything That Dead Men Rise up Never A Classic of the Sea A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser)
— from The Human Drift by Jack London

[163] A rapidly increasing population, and unfortunately not a concentrating one, compelled Mr. Berkin’s successor (the writer of this work) to meet its wants by erecting chapel school-rooms, for the accommodation of sixty scholars each, in the hamlets of Woodside and the Hawthorns, the former having been in use since 15th September, 1850, and the latter since 31st December, 1851, to the lasting benefit, he trusts, of many of the rising generation through the Divine blessing on the conscientious efforts of their respective teachers.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

His mode of formation was copied by the English, French, and other European states; but so great was the prejudice in favour of ancient customs, that all his improvements were not adopted until near a century afterwards.
— from Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849 by Richard Cannon

Yesterday was an abominable day; a heated tornado blew from the west from morning until night and continued until this morning, when, without apparent change otherwise, and no clouds, the temperature of the wind entirely altered and we had an exceedingly cool and delightful day.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

I had seen a hundred such, but the unobtrusive neatness and comfort of the spot struck me forcibly; and whilst envying the possessor his peaceful lot, I was inwardly forming a plan to decoy him with me, which I had leisure to mature, for he had left me seated, and was for some time absent.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

Not a one of the gang was sissified enough to be ashamed of being a Christian, and as you know, every single one of us nearly always carried his New Testament with him wherever he went.
— from The Sugar Creek Gang Digs for Treasure by Paul Hutchens

He turned the key, went out, locked the door again, hung the key on its usual nail, and crept to the end of the passage.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; Ð said of tissue.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

One of our most inveterate relic-hunters had his hammer with him, and tried to break a fragment off the upright Needle and could not do it; he tried the prostrate one and failed; he borrowed a heavy sledge hammer from a mason and tried again.
— from The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 by Mark Twain