It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But when the Jews will not in the least yield to the testimonies of this prophecy, which are so manifest, and are also brought by events to so clear and certain a completion, certainly that is fulfilled in them which is written in that psalm which here follows.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

There were two other heavenly mansions, however, one reserved for the dwarfs and the other for the giants; for as these creatures had no free will, and but blindly executed the decrees of fate, they were not thought to be responsible for any harm done by them, and were therefore held to be undeserving of punishment.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The barber grew confused, and brought blood every time.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

2 bundle long things together to form a bunch big enough to be clasped in one or both hands.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The river—with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing shadows o’er the shallows, flinging diamonds from the mill-wheels, throwing kisses to the lilies, wantoning with the weirs’ white waters, silvering moss-grown walls and bridges, brightening every tiny townlet, making sweet each lane and meadow, lying tangled in the rushes, peeping, laughing, from each inlet, gleaming gay on many a far sail, making soft the air with glory—is a golden fairy stream.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

She was neatly clad and clean-faced, and there was nothing perhaps but the long black hair and bright black eyes to remind him of his former apparition.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

In the first row, you make a wheel over each bar; in the second, you make a bar between every two wheels; in the third, the wheels are only made over every second bar; a fourth row of bars which you pick up with a thread completes the interior of the circle, then you work along the bars with overcasting stitches, fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

We listened a long time, with intent faculties and bated breath; every time one of us would relax, and draw a long sigh of relief and start to say something, a comrade would be sure to utter a sudden “Hark!”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

[LXXVIII.] “Item: I give and bequeath to my Executors all my worldly Substance, of what Nature or Kind soever (excepting such Part {311} thereof as is herein after particularly devised) for the following Uses and Purposes, that is to say, to the Intent that they, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, his Executors, or Administrators, as soon as conveniently may be after my Death, shall turn it all into ready Money, and lay out the same in purchasing Lands of Inheritance in Fee simple, situate in any Province of Ireland, except Connaught, but as near to the City of Dublin, as conveniently can be found, and not incumbered with, or subject to any Leases for Lives renewable, or any Terms for Years longer than Thirty-one:” He provides that a considerable sum be laid out in the purchase of lands near Dublin and a building be erected thereon “An Hospital for the Reception of as many Idiots and Lunaticks as the annual income of the said lands and worldly Substance shall be sufficient to maintain:
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

“I don't seem as if she 'd 'a' ben brazen enough to come back so near him,” said Steve.
— from The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

And be big enough to grant to others their undoubted right to see and think from their own standpoint.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter

We fired together, and both balls entered the skull; the light of the eye was extinguished, and the only movement was in the further extremity of the body, which rolled, writhed, coiled, and lashed from side to side.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

Now if the child had been a boy——" The old lady's gaze turned to a portrait that hung over the mantelpiece—that of a gentleman in a blue velvet coat with lace and silver buttons, powdered hair and bold, bright eyes that seemed to smile on the little
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

In the first case, they get the same as before; but every thing on which their gains are expended, is diminished in exchangeable value.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

There is a combination which would entirely change the whole ‘face of the world, and bring back empire to the East.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"And you—if I didn't know Porfias del Norte to be dead and buried—— But even then you'd not be the man.
— from Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win by Burt L. Standish

Their republican system, the minority believed, conferred civil equality and legal rights upon every citizen, knew neither privileged nor degraded classes, made no distinctions, and created no differences between rich and poor, learned and ignorant, or white and black, but extended to all alike its protection and benefits.[3]
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson