The Cretan labyrinth was a building as stately, complex, and luxurious as any in the ancient world.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But her brother wished her to go and live with him, and keep house for him at Bannockburn, and she consented and left the Institution.
— from Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb by W. R. (William Robert) Roe

If a savings-bank book, a bond, a stock certificate, a life-insurance policy, a note or check of a third person (but not one made by the giver), or any chattel property is delivered to the donee, the gift is binding and irrevocable; but otherwise the [Pg 295] donee gets absolutely nothing and the donor's executor is entitled to the property attempted to be disposed of by gift, and must treat it as part of the assets of the estate.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

So I set out very early in the morning accompanied by another Sister, carrying a little basket with things for one or two nights.
— from Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan

There is also the Griffith John College of the London Mission, a normal school of the American Baptists, a Swedish college; and Lord Cecil and Oxford and Cambridge Universities propose to start their great university here.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

But Lorna took me by the hand as bravely as she could, and led me into a little passage where I could hear the river moaning and the branches rustling.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Her veil was half raised as she spoke; she was accompanied by Diomed himself, and by a slave carrying a lantern before them—the merchant and his daughter were returning home from a supper at one of their neighbors'.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When they stopped for tea, instead of running home as usual, she drank it cold out of a flask she had brought, ate a bun and some chocolate, and lay down on her back against the hedge.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy