H2 anchor Part II H2 anchor Chapter One Yonville-l’Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not even the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after turning three water-mills near its mouth, where there are a few trout that the lads amuse themselves by fishing for on Sundays.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

" Just then a bell rang, and the green girl said to Dorothy, "That is the signal.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

“Something of that; but very glad to find myself at home once more, Mr Bingley, though very sorry to have such a welcome as a blazing rick at the Abbey farm.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I have seen for the first time on the Missouri at these falls, a species of fishing ducks with white wings, brown and white body and the head and part of the neck adjoining of a brick red, and the beak narrow; which I take to be the same common to James river, the Potomac and Susquehanna.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

—Treaty of peace between England and Sweden; and between Russia and the Spanish Regency at Cadiz.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

[ The ransom and tribute are attested by reason and the Orientals.
— 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

Captain Grouse was never more wanted; he would have amused Lord Marney, relieved his wife and brother, reported all that had been said and done in their neighbourhood during their absence, introduced a new tone, and effected a happy diversion.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I greatly doubt whether the Erewhonians are yet prepared for any better religion, and though (considering my gradually strengthened conviction that they were the representatives of the lost tribes of Israel) I would have set about converting them at all hazards had I seen the remotest prospect of success, I could hardly contemplate the displacement of Ydgrun as the great central object of their regard without admitting that it would be attended with frightful consequences; in fact were I a mere philosopher, I should say that the gradual raising of the popular conception of Ydgrun would be the greatest spiritual boon which could be conferred upon them, and that nothing could effect this except example.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

I suppose so small a bedroom rarely accommodated two men of our inches.
— from Miriam: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills by D. F. E. Sykes

This method of study is generally accepted as the only one applicable to the work of a great painter by any criticism worthy of the name: it should also be recognised as the sole method by which the work of a great poet can be studied to any serious purpose.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

[294] The peacock has also been regarded as the emblem of pride and arrogance, as in “1 Henry VI.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

The play was ready or all but ready, and there was no doubt it would be performed the following Saturday.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

Then Moto bade all be ready, and the word “Piga” (fire) was heard, sharp and peremptory, and the three guns simultaneously belched flame and fire, lit up the form of the then uprising lion, and a savage cry and dull heavy thud upon the earth announced to these anxious souls that the lion’s spring was cut short, and that he was either dying or was dead.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

The schoolhouse was a grim, old, red, one-story building, perched on a bare rock at the top of a hill,—partly because this was a conspicuous site for the temple of learning, and partly because land is cheap where there is no chance even for rye or buckwheat, and the very sheep find nothing to nibble.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The Bilíbid Jail has been reformed almost beyond recognition as the old Spanish prison.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.