Page 30 GRAMMAR REVIEW.--LESSON VI Comparison of adjectives and adverbs.-- Than in comparison.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Three persons only assisted at this important conference, the minister Apharban, the praefect of the guards, and an officer who had commanded on the Armenian frontier.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

To this it must be added that portraits in drawing are never so like as are those in colours, not to mention that the engravers, who have no draughtsmanship, always rob the faces (being unable or not knowing how to make exactly those minutenesses that make them good and true to life) of that perfection which is rarely or never found in portraits cut in wood.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Justice must, after all, take its course.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

No one can tell any great truth about her which has not already been written, and all that I can do is to give a few more facts about Miss Keller's work and add a little to what is known of her personality.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It seemed an age, though it could not have been more than ten minutes later when I came to.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Cadaverine picrate is insoluble in boiling absolute alcohol, the other picrates soluble; so the mixed picrates are boiled with absolute alcohol, and the insoluble cadaverine filtered off.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Sir William Chambers, “an amateur,” as Thrupp is careful to point out, designed it in 1761 for George III.
— from Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution by Ralph Straus

“In that way,” she added almost timidly, “I can be a mother to him after all.”
— from The Erratic Flame by Ysabel De Teresa

This is the meaning which must be attached to the word by (above all) those "in charge" of sick, whether of numbers or of individuals, (and indeed I think it is with individual sick that it is least understood.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

He must carefully select and arrange the incidents, compose them into an effective group, and by the power of language make them memorable and alive.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

They have never been for hours at a time in contact with an elementary intelligence.
— from Poems By a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling

And rolling forward with a number of unarmed attendants came one of the huge gilded coaches of the time, passing at great risk to itself and all that it contained, through or over the yet incomplete barriers farther up in the street.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 3 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Indeed the truest truth is that which is the expression of the deepest feeling, and if there is an absolute truth it can only be known and expressed by him who has the absolute feeling or Being within himself.
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter

After a time, I could not say how long, I heard some one coming over to my bed.
— from Nobody's Boy Sans Famille by Hector Malot