Through this crowd of paupers and beggars, a beautiful coach passed now and again.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Its value as an instrument of research consists in that it allows the investigator to put questions which he formulates to himself in abstracto , but can put concretely to the native informant.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Cowering generations had tried to soothe the remorseless avengers by complimentary phrases.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He planned an expedition to climb Sachem Mountain, and wanted to camp overnight at Box Car Pond.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

His family had been taking him around buying Christmas presents.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Broun , adj. brown, C, PP; brun , sb. brown horn, S.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Count Mirabeau, who has got his matrimonial and other Lawsuits huddled up, better or worse; and works now in the dimmest element at Berlin; compiling Prussian Monarchies, Pamphlets On Cagliostro; writing, with pay, but not with honourable recognition, innumerable Despatches for his Government,—scents or descries richer quarry from afar.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In this manner had he proceeded for the space of ten months, during which he acquired a competent knowledge of the city of Paris, when his curiosity was attracted by certain peculiarities in the appearance of a man who lived in one of the upper apartments belonging to the house in which he himself had fixed his habitation.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

i. (1662) was “An act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At the very time that Sue was tossing and staring at her figures, the policeman and belated citizens passing along under his window might have heard, if they had stood still, strange syllables mumbled with fervour within—words that had for Jude an indescribable enchantment: inexplicable sounds something like these:— " All hemin heis Theos ho
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

you have always been called profane.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Since the Suvla landing no further active operations had been attempted, but constant pressure was maintained on the Turkish lines by our trench garrisons in [Pg 94] mining and bombing, while our artillery continually harassed him in his advanced and rearward positions.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

In a moment she was crying on his neck; and, as he looked over her shoulder, he saw a blue coat passing out of the door, and that was the last of Lord Saltire for the present.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

With them was a sallow, ill-favoured personage, whose closely-cropped black hair, steeple-crowned hat, plain Geneva band, and black cloak, proclaimed him a Puritan.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

Among other sentiments it has been ascertained that they possess those of pride and vanity, which are not only exasperated by scorn and contumely—as when they are called the scum of the earth, the riff-raff, and the rabble—but also by contemptuous patronage: by all sorts of badges, whether metallic or verbal.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Mention of the “great and brilliant Victory” was made in the King’s Speech at the opening of Parliament, its organiser received the thanks of both Houses, as well as of the Parliament of Ireland, and many foreign potentates and British Corporations paid him honour.
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler

A boy can [Pg 48] stand on one leg as well as a Holland stork; and the boy who found a warm spot for the sole of his foot was likely to stand in it until the words, "Come, stir your stumps," broke in discordantly upon his meditations.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner