Spurina, a young man of Tuscany: “Qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum, Aut collo decus, aut cupiti: vel quale per artem Inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho Lucet ebur,” [“As a gem shines enchased in yellow gold, or an ornament on the neck or head, or as ivory has lustre, set by art in boxwood or Orician ebony.”—AEneid, x. 134.] being endowed with a singular beauty, and so excessive, that the chastest eyes could not chastely behold its rays; not contenting himself with leaving so much flame and fever as he everywhere kindled without relief, entered into a furious spite against himself and those great endowments nature had so liberally conferred upon him, as if a man were responsible to himself for the faults of others, and purposely slashed and disfigured, with many wounds and scars, the perfect symmetry and proportion that nature had so curiously imprinted in his face.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Images, as opposed to sensations, can only be defined by their different causation: they are caused by association with a sensation, not by a stimulus external to the nervous system—or perhaps one should say external to the brain, where the higher animals are concerned.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

With variable and unfavorable winds, they worked their way, during the few succeeding days, in a direction of N. N. E. up to latitude 49° 30', where Chirikoff, on the 20th of June, in storm and fog, left Bering and sailed E. N. E. in the direction of the American coast, without attempting to keep with the St. Peter.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

When he had come to their house, there had been always something, either of over-eagerness or of that kind of vexed annoyance which seemed ready to pre-suppose that he was unjustly judged, and yet felt too proud to try and make himself better understood.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

General Buxhöwden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound] ear trumpet, speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

At times it happened that, the relief party having mounted, encountered considerable annoyance in their descent from the barbarians, who were so agile that they allowed them to come up quite close, before they turned back, and still escaped, partly no doubt because the only weapons they had to carry were bows and slings.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

"These are the inscriptions that every hunter must learn to read infallibly, and be they strong or faint, straight or crooked, simple or overwritten with many a puzzling, diverse phrase, he must decipher and follow them swiftly, unerringly if there is to be a successful ending to the hunt which provides his daily food.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The famous climber, Mr Tuckett, has very kindly allowed me to quote from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers , the following description of a narrow escape from an avalanche while descending the Aletschhorn: “We had accomplished in safety a distance of scarcely more than 150 yards when, as I was looking at the Jungfrau, my attention was attracted by a sudden exclamation from Victor, who appeared to stagger and all but lose his balance.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

They fly very carelessly, and often, in swooping about the sky, drop your clubs out of the bag and smash 'em; and they all look so infernally alike that you can never tell your own caddy from the other fellow's, which is sometimes very confusing."
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

After dictating a solemn protest against the compulsion put upon him, the ex-Emperor thanked Maitland for his honourable conduct, spoke of his having hoped to buy a small estate in England where he might end his days in peace, and declaimed bitterly against the Government.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

[C] Let me illustrate this by a single example.
— from Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Browne, Thomas, Sir

The sexes are combined, and they are propagated by buds and single eggs.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

An Englishman who had a little boat, and small enough, was going on Monday without fail, and he had, he said, about sixteen passengers.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

The crew were ordered on deck, but a second explosion threw them all into the sea.
— from The German Pirate: His Methods and Record by Ajax

The result will be proscription if beaten and slavery even if one wins.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero