lemency, I thought, than it had poured and raged all day.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Here is a perfectly crystallised specimen:— D'amour, de grace, et de haulte valeur Les feux divins estoient ceinctz et les cieulx S'estoient vestuz d'un manteau precieux A raiz ardens di diverse couleur: Tout estoit plein de beaute, de bonheur, La mer tranquille, et le vent gracieulx, Quand celle la nasquit en ces bas lieux Qui a pille du monde tout l'honneur.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

And however poets may employ their wit and eloquence, in celebrating present pleasure, and rejecting all distant views to fame, health, or fortune; it is obvious, that this practice is the source of all dissoluteness and disorder, repentance and misery.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

My uncle assured him, he had no intention to give him the least offence, by the observations he had made; but, on the contrary, spoke from a sentiment of friendly regard to his interest—The lieutenant thanked him with a stiffness of civility, which nettled our old gentleman, who perceived that his moderation was all affected; for, whatsoever his tongue might declare, his whole appearance denoted dissatisfaction—In short, without pretending to judge of his military merit, I think I may affirm, that this Caledonian is a self-conceited pedant, aukward, rude, and disputacious—He has had the benefit of a school-education, seems to have read a good number of books, his memory is tenacious, and he pretends to speak several different languages; but he is so addicted to wrangling, that he will cavil at the clearest truths, and, in the pride of argumentation, attempt to reconcile contradictions—Whether his address and qualifications are really of that stamp which is agreeable to the taste of our aunt, Mrs Tabitha, or that indefatigable maiden is determined to shoot at every sort of game, certain it is she has begun to practice upon the heart of the lieutenant, who favoured us with his company to supper.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Contents Contents p.4 Love I Thou, from the first, unborn, undying love, Albeit we gaze not on thy glories near, Before the face of God didst breathe and move, Though night and pain and ruin and death reign here.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

‘The next day the COURT GAZETTE contained a bulletin signed by the three physicians, stating that “her Highness the Hereditary Princess laboured under inflammation of the brain, and had passed a restless and disturbed night.”
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Quid debeas, o Roma, Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen et Hasdrubal Devictus et pulcher fugatis 40 Ille dies Latio tenebris, Qui primus alma risit adorea, Dirus per urbes Afer ut Italas Ceu flamma per taedas vel Eurus 44 Per Siculas equitavit undas.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

painful and gloomy history commences for the Jewish race from the day when the Romans seized upon Jerusalem and expelled its unfortunate inhabitants, a race so essentially homogeneous, strong, patient, and religious, and dating its origin from the remotest period of the patriarchal ages.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

People as retiring, as devoid of self-confidence as you are——" "What about your own self-confidence?" interrupted Arkady.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"Puffs and ruffles and dainty aprons are nice," she replied gently.
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

{343} These problems are really a disease, and the way to cure it is, not to think of them at all.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

But in this campaign Frederick himself narrowly escaped being taken prisoner, and returned a defeated monarch, leaving a shattered army behind him.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

My servants I told that their pay and reward also depended on their implicit obedience.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

In half an hour Don came out again; his collar [Pg 150] was gone, and in his mouth he trailed a long piece of chewed ribbon, which he dropped with the queerest mixture of penitence and reproach at Daisy's feet.
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

He received from him such a prompt answer, removing all doubt that, astounded, he asked the curé where he had studied his theology?
— from The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord by Anonymous

‘Plunder and Rape and Death’’s the hostile cry, ‘Fire to your towns—to Britons slavery!’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

Their only desire is that a country which, on one of its frontiers, marches with an important British Colony, and with which not only that Colony, but Great Britain itself, has large and growing commercial relations, should have such a stable or effective Government as will conduce to its own prosperity, and remove any danger of its losing its independence.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

He loved Gilda for herself alone, with all the adoration which a pious man would have given to his God, and while one moment of his life was occupied in planning a ruthless and dastardly murder, the other was filled with hopes of a happier future, with Gilda beside him as his idolized wife.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

p ate rno amplexu, dicens: "Prospere ueneris fili et gen er , ex h oc , iuuenis amantissime, te in filiu m adopto specialem."
— 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