It is well to disguise one’s self as a civilian from time to time.” Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:— “Théodule, your grandnephew.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The lofty walls, gigantic in height—even unproportionably so—were hung from summit to foot, in vast folds, with a heavy and massive-looking tapestry—tapestry of a material which was found alike as a carpet on the floor, as a covering for the ottomans and the ebony bed, as a canopy for the bed, and as the gorgeous volutes of the curtains which partially shaded the window.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In Detroit, Ole Nattestad was one day walking about to view the city, and he says: Here I accidentally came upon a man, whom I immediately recognized by his clothes as a countryman from the western coast of Norway.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

They made haste to bring sheep and cattle from the city, they brought wine also and corn from their houses and gathered much wood.
— from The Iliad by Homer

4 small basket with an open mouth, usually rounded, made of rattan or bamboo, used as a container for the seeds when sowing or for harvested rice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But to assert that such a being necessarily exists, is no longer the modest enunciation of an admissible hypothesis, but the boldest declaration of an apodeictic certainty; for the cognition of that which is absolutely necessary must itself possess that character.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This sum arises partly from his pay’s running up while he remained among the Indians; partly from what he received as a consideration for the difference between his full appointment and the half-pay, to which he is now restricted; and partly from the profits of a little traffick he drove in peltry, during his sachemship among the Miamis.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

2 [AN; c6] have an expensive meal as a change from the usual.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For two years more Goldsmith labored with theology, only to be rejected when he presented himself as a candidate for the ministry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Some angry words then passed with one of the proprietors, and a challenge followed; the friends of both parties tried to arrange the affair, but failed to do so.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

“ Nomenclatura de todos los Lugares, Puertos, Cabos, Rios, Islas, Baxos & a . que se ponen en la Descripcion de la Historia de las Indias Occidentales;” alphabetically arranged, and copied from the original in the National Library at Madrid, as appears from a final note by Don Juan de Santander, thus worded:
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Conscience cried oft, and bade Clergy help him, And also Contrition, for to keep the gate.
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

He seemed to feel the need of exposing himself to danger as a compensation for the storms and terrors of the ocean, which he had no longer to meet.
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Anciently, a certificate from the Sharif was given to all who could afford money for a proof of having performed the pilgrimage, but no such practice at present exists.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It seemed to Nina's morbid sense that Laura overdid it; that the two of them closed round her by a common impulse and a common fear, that they rushed to her wild head to turn her to her course and keep her there.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

The "Northerner", of the St. Louis Line, was a fast boat, and an active contestant for the "broom".
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

The Quotations are arranged Chronologically from the earliest Period to the beginning of the present Century.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various

Through this shot the craft, and then, when sufficient momentum had been obtained, Tom, at a command from the aeronaut, pulled the lever of the elevation rudder.
— from Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor Appleton