[519] More swift : The sinners in the First Bolgia are divided into two gangs, moving in opposite directions, the course of those on the outside being to the right, as looked at by Dante.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Such a character would be a deep-dyed stigma upon any human being.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

It might be to remind us, sprinkling over us, as it were, the Lenten ashes of an intellectual contrition, that our thoughts are air even as our bodies are dust, momentary vehicles and products of an immortal vitality in God and in nature, which fosters and illumines us for a moment before it lapses into other forms.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Galen saith, That the roots and leaves hereof are good for such persons that have their bodies drawn together by some spasm or convulsion, or other infirmities; as the rickets (or as the college of physicians would have it, Rachites, about which name they have quarrelled sufficiently) in children, being a disease that hinders their growth, by binding their nerves, ligaments, and whole structure of their body.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I seized my hat and trying not to look at Apollon, who had been all day expecting his month's wages, but in his foolishness was unwilling to be the first to speak about it, I slipt between him and the door and jumping into a high-class sledge, on which I spent my last half rouble, I drove up in grand style to the Hôtel de Paris.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How Arthur accorded the two brethren, and delivered the twenty knights, and how Sir Accolon died.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

During the whole course of his life, he suffered, at times, dangerous fits of sickness, especially after the conquest of Cantabria; when his liver being injured by a defluxion (131) upon it, he was reduced to such a condition, that he was obliged to undergo a desperate and doubtful method of cure: for warm applications having no effect, Antonius Musa 232 directed the use of those which were cold.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Between the ridges, the clear, transparent water was edged with gray-green cedars, white-flowered mountain ashes, alders and other bushes, and dotted with wooded islands.
— from The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

Two facts are incontrovertible: (1) that Flinders had discovered and charted the whole of the south coast of Australia from Fowler Bay to Encounter Bay--except the south of Kangaroo Island, which is represented by a dotted line on his charts--before he met Le Geographe on April 8, 1802; and (2) that the French officers knew that he had done so.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

These patients present a pallid appearance, are affected with headache, (without febrile symptoms,) and constriction of the chest; to which may be added dark bronchial expectoration and deficient appetite.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

Lapham suddenly lifted his bulk up out of his swivel-chair, and led the way out into the wareroom beyond the office partitions, where rows and ranks of casks, barrels, and kegs stretched dimly back to the rear of the building, and diffused an honest, clean, wholesome smell of oil and paint.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

He had at first alarmed religious authority by his political theories on the relations of Church and State, next on the reformation of the Church itself; finally he created excessive scandal by attacking dogmas and by discussing the sacraments.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

Then the fare buttoned his coat around him, jumped on the box, and drove east on Massachusetts Avenue.
— from The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

Its blue sky and calm waters, its verdant groves and majestic mountains, its graceful villas and flowering shrubs, put one in mind of a lovely woman who employs her charms to beguile and destroy those who confide in her.
— from Tales of the Sea, and of Our Jack Tars by William Henry Giles Kingston

I don't intend to be so very bad as Dorcas shall represent me to be.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson