So Christiana said, "Yes." Then said he again, "Behold, the flowers are diverse in stature, in quality, and color, and smell, and virtue, and some are better than others; also, where the gardener has set them, there they stand, and quarrel not one with another."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

‘I never come across such a vagabond, and my mate says the same.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Who would not mourn that an ample palace, of surpassingly graceful architecture, fill'd with luxuries, and embellish'd with fine pictures and sculpture, should stand cold and still and vacant, and never be known or enjoy'd by its owner?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

[12] tan comunes ... como , as common ... as ; so ... as . V ARIANT : ¿Abundan los grandes almacenes en la América latina tanto como aquí?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Suspicabar quod de Anglorum caudis traditur, nugatorium esse, nec hoc meminissem loco, nisi ipsi Anglicarum rerum conditores id serio traderent: nasci videlicet homines, instar brutorum animalium caudatos apud Strodum Angliae vicum, ad ripam fluvii Medueiae, qui Roffensem, sive Rocestrensem agrum alluit.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

Then suddenly the walls, the bitter confines, are smitten and vanish, and I walk, blinded, perplexed, and yet rejoicing, in this sweet, beautiful world, in its fair incessant variety, its satisfaction, its opportunities, exultant in this glorious gift of life.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Magnificat in D. Written for the Christmas Festival at St Thomas’ Church, and sung at vespers after the sermon.
— from Bach by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams

And it came to pass, when the clubs and spades are veiled and the battle subsideth of itself, the good people return to their respective callings and trades; But the perverse recalcitrants which remain––and Khalid the Baalbekian is among them––are taken by the aforesaid overfed troops to the City Hall and thence to the velayet prison in Damascus.
— from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

In the Rhine we find Perca fluviatilis , and Acerina cernua ; in the Rhone, Perca fluviatilis , and Aspro vulgaris ; in the Danube, Perca vulgaris , Lucio-perca Sandra , Acerina cernua , A. Schraitzer , Aspro vulgaris , and A. Zingel .
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

So long as they were not spies in the service of the enemy it was all right; only he wanted to warn them that they were apt to meet with some roving detachment of Germans at almost any time, since they were overrunning most of the country, appearing suddenly at villages, and demanding food and wine, or surprising isolated stations poorly guarded, so as to hold some important bridge for the coming of a column.
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

And as kings became proud and secular, probably their palaces became grander and larger,--like the palaces of Nebuchadnezzar and Rameses the Great and the Persian monarchs at Susa, combining labor, skill, expenditure, dazzling the eye by the number of columns and statues and vast apartments, yet still deficient in beauty and grace.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

I carried a sling at Verulanium, and there you have it.
— from The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Nature assails us with sorrow, law and custom press us with constraint, and sensibility and virtue alarm us by their continual conflict.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

But like the sphinx, the cliffs are silent and voiceless as the hillocks and sand-dunes along the Nile, that other desert stream, with a history no more ancient and momentous than this.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb