I let Mrs. Fairfax precede me into the dining-room, and kept in her shade as we crossed that apartment; and, passing the arch, whose curtain was now dropped, entered the elegant recess beyond.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

et tamen implent flumina, domus ejiciunt, timenda ergo ruina multiuidinis, si non magnitudinis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Although the science of politics was in its infancy, he relied on the dawning enlightenment to establish rational liberty, and the equality between classes and religions which is the perfection of politics.
— from Lectures on the French Revolution by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

It discovered objections to every accepted doctrine, exceptions to every rule.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The subjects of the decorations embrace the entire range of the domestic and public life of the people, among them
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

Le plaisir fut de voir le travail inutile, Des Belles de toute la Ville Pour s'attirer & mériter le choix Du Prince leur Seigneur, q'un air chaste & modeste, Charmoit uniquement & plus que tout le reste, Ainsi qu'il l'avoit dit cent fois. D'habit & de maintien toutes elles changerent, D'un ton devot elles tousserent, Elles radoucirent leurs voix, De demi pied les coëffures baisserent, La gorge se couvrit, les manches s'allongerent, A peine on leur voyoit le petit bout des doigts.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

[352] pocius Fol. 3 b | circumuallando roborare, et resu m pto sp irit u uiuidiore, reliquos om ne s, hinc in de ad modu m nauis uelificantis et equora uelocit er sulcantis, impetuosissime diuisit, ense t er ribilit er fulminante, et hostiu m cruore sepius inebriato, don e c sue om ne s acies ad ip su m illese et inde m pnes t r ansmear en t. Quo cu m p er uenirent sui co m militones, congregati ci r ca ip su m do mi n u m suu m , exc er citu m magnu m et fortem co n flau er unt.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

On the very day when the popular Lord Kitchener, dropping even the et rex meus of Wolsey, frankly asked the nation for 100,000 men for his army, and when it was a matter of life and death that every encouragement should be held out to working men to enlist, the War Office decided that this was the psychological moment to remind everybody that soldiers on active service often die of typhoid fever, and to press inoculation on the recruits pending the officially longed-for hour when Sir Almroth Wright's demand for compulsion can be complied with.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

Had he lived to a later day, he would most probably have been found a foremost leader of Fenianism; and from what I knew of him, I can say he would have been a more dangerous enemy to English rule than any of those dealers in the petty larceny of rebellion we have lately seen among us.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

Captain Jones, hearty and hospitable in these last hours, had provided what he called a snack, and both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz.
— from Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

It must be understood, of course, that the amount of electricity generated in any dynamo is precisely measurable, and that by no possibility could the energy thus developed exceed the energy required to move the coils of wire.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams