For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

From the best estermate we were enabled to make as we decended the Columbia we Conceived that the nativs inhabiting that noble Stream (from the enterance of Lewis's river to the neighbourhood of the falls the nativs Consume all the fish they Catch either for food or fuel) From Tow ar ne hi ooks River or a fiew mils above the Great falls to the grand rapids inclusive anually prepare about 30,000 lbs of pounded fish (Chiefly Salmon) for market, but whether this fish is an article of Commerce with their neighbours or is exclusively Sold to, and Consumed by the nativs of the Sea coast, we are at a loss to determine the latter of those positions I am dispose to credit most, as I cannot imagine what the white merchents objet Could be in purchaseing fish, or where they Could dispose of it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Keep heart, and endure till prosperous fortune come.' Such words he utters, and sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and keeps his anguish hidden deep in his breast.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The same Preface further contains some account of the three principal Middle-English dialects (p. xl), and Outlines of the Grammar (p. xlv).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“If they want to force us to kill or be killed—” Another fit of coughing on the part of the poor silversmith prevented further conversation, so the workmen and apprentices retired to their homes, carrying with them hammers and saws, and other implements, more or less cutting, more or less bruising, disposed to sell their lives dearly.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The volcanic upheaval of the nation, after that firing on the flag at Charleston, proved for certain something which had been previously in great doubt, and at once substantially settled the question of disunion.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

This appears to me sufficiently to explain why men in democracies, whose concerns are in general so paltry, call upon their poets for conceptions so vast and descriptions so unlimited.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can scarce hold him yonder.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

Accompanied by the lightest of porters, fit colourless servitor at Death’s door when Mrs. Gradgrind knocked, Louisa rumbled to Coketown, over the coal-pits past and present, and was whirled into its smoky jaws.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

But that proud Paynim forward came so fierce, And full of wrath, that with his sharp-head speare, Through vainly crossed shield ° he quite did pierce, 310 And had his staggering steede not shrunke for feare, Through shield and bodie eke he should him beare: Yet so great was the puissance of his push, That from his saddle quite he did him beare: He tombling rudely downe to ground did rush, 315
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

We all approve it, Madam, and are proud Fair Cleomena shall a Witness be Of what we do to serve her, And see the easy Conquest we shall make Upon the Persons of her Enemies.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

A man standing near, pipe in mouth, and hands in pockets, observing the same scene, was astonished that her sad yet passionate face could so change under the spell of laughter.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

There, rivers of fire poured forth cascades spangled with all the variegated brilliancy with which the chemist's art can embellish the work of the pyrotechnist.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Does the perfect form convey something of the same thing that physical force—an army in arms, a battleship—conveys?
— from The Money Master, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

He had a decided preference for certain sorts of food, probably from early associations.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Across the full width of the hospital stretched the great drawing-room of the hotel, now a recreation place for convalescent soldiers.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This might have had some application to the matter of the seventh charge; which alleged that “the hands of Mr. Adams were reeking with the blood of the poor, friendless Connecticut sailor.”
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress