The air without is impregnated with raindew moisture, life essence celestial, glistening on Dublin stone there under starshiny coelum.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

On the south side of Thames street, beginning at the east end thereof, there is first the said Smart’s key, so called of one Smart sometime owner thereof; the next is Belinsgate, whereof the whole ward taketh name; the which (leaving out of the fable, thereof feigning it to be built by King Beline, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ), is at this present a large water-gate, port, or harborough, for ships and boats, commonly arriving there with fish, both fresh and salt, shell-fishes, salt, oranges, onions, and other fruits and roots, wheat, rye, and grain of divers sorts, for service of the city and the parts of this realm adjoining.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

It grows on dry sandy ground for the most part, and as well on the higher as the lower places under hedge-sides in almost every county of this land.
— 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

At the Court, the evil genius of Dee stood ever by his side, saluting the philosopher with no friendly voice, as “the arch-conjuror of the whole kingdom!”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

But in foreign trade there are commonly some additional grounds of Diversity, since the various countries of the earth have received from the hands of God a diversity of original gifts, in climate, soil, natural productions, position, and opportunity.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry