The world can alter the manner of that; can either have it as blessed continuous summer sunshine, or as unblessed black thunder and tornado,—with unspeakable difference of profit for the world!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Hither by and by come Sir Richard Ford and also Mrs. Esther, that lived formerly with my Lady Batten, now well married to a priest, come to see my Lady.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“They are both crazy,” said Rakitin, looking at them with amazement.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The next day, M. Dessessart’s valet came to d’Artagnan’s lodging, and gave him a bag containing seven thousand livres.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“And a bad citizen,” said Fathom, “cannot, if he would, provided he has met with his deserts; a sharper may as well forget the shape of a die, or a discarded soldier the sound of a drum.”
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

No one was admitted but Count Seeau's sister and young Count Seinsheim.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This is why the highest functions of the intelligence have always been considered specific manifestations of the soul.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Deborah, I know, rather wished to go, and went so far as to order a new bonnet for the occasion: but when the time came she had a bad cold; so they sent her a very polite account of what they had done.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

[A; b6] clean s.t. in water by swishing it around.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To some others at these times hee teacheth how to make Pictures of waxe or clay: That by the rosting thereof, the persones that they beare the name of, may be continuallie melted or dryed awaie by continuall sicknesse.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

Stealing, among Lacedaemonians. Stepmother, flower which dies at name of; the herb phryxa a protection against. Steward at banquets. Stilpo, and Poseidon; references to; attacked by Colotes. Stoics, views of God; improbabilities spoken by; common conceptions against; contradictions of the; origin of doctrines of, with Homer.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The original book was published by HUNT & EATON at New York, and by CRANSTON & STOWE at Cincinnati.
— from Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft

Oh, my lord, I have set my poor people a dastardly example, and brought cruel shame upon my cloth; for its sake and for theirs, if not for my own, let me at least leave among them a tangible sign and symbol of my true repentance.
— from Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

"You haven't looked at Boy Comfort," she said.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

A blue carpet strewn with lilies covered the floor, fluttering curtains of blue silk and white muslin, the old windows.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Flesh and blood could stand no more.
— from The Man Who Ended War by Hollis Godfrey

Even that sweetest solitude of all, when he wrote the “Revolt of Islam” in summer shades, to the sound of rippling waters, was willingly exchanged for the society of the one dearest and best companion:— “So now my summer-task is ended, Mary,
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton