In fact, when a certain dame chanced to have the good fortune to anticipate a hated rival in the race there very nearly ensued a most lamentable scene—which, to many of those who had been desirous of doing exactly the same thing, seemed a peculiarly horrible instance of brazen-faced audacity.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

We are concerned with looking at Joshua Rigg's sale of his land from Mr. Bulstrode's point of view, and he interpreted it as a cheering dispensation conveying perhaps a sanction to a purpose which he had for some time entertained without external encouragement; he interpreted it thus, but not too confidently, offering up his thanksgiving in guarded phraseology.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

When day did daw, and cocks did craw, The morning it was foggie; An unco tyke, lap o'er the dyke, And maist has kill'd my Hoggie! H2 anchor Raving Winds Around Her Blowing Tune—“M'Grigor of Roro's Lament.”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

A table, somewhat rheumatic in its limbs, was drawn out in front of the fire, and covered with a cloth, displaying cups and saucers of a decidedly brilliant pattern, with other symptoms of an approaching meal.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

As in the flesh of any creature still Is odour and savour and a certain warmth, And yet from all of these one bulk of body Is made complete, so, viewless force of wind And warmth and air, commingled, do create One nature, by that mobile energy Assisted which from out itself to them
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Then thro' the lakes Montgomery takes, I wat he was na slaw, man; Down Lowrie's Burn he took a turn, And Carleton did ca', man:
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The arts of deceit and cunning do continually 30 grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Come, sit thee down upon this flow'ry bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[50] Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, the highest authority in England on such matters, had expressed the same conclusion; and the Royal Astronomical Society had cabled its felicitations on the discovery.
— from Biography of Percival Lowell by A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence) Lowell

There are plenty of writers, too, like William Black and Clark Russell and Conan Doyle, concerning the lasting value of whose stories there might easily be a question, yet who do often contrive to be healthily amusing, and who furnish the means of creating a pleasant and restful vacuity in lives otherwise too full.
— from Talks on the study of literature. by Arlo Bates

During the visit of the boys on the island, John had a crude dock constructed, and as the Pioneer was of light draft, this was not a difficult thing to do, so that the passengers could land from the ship directly on the solid platform.
— from The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands by Roger Thompson Finlay

To this stormy and precarious, but organized and clearly defined condition, the St. Bartholomew had caused anarchy to succeed.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot

I have seen a shy young woman completely changed because she happened to sit upon a certain deep cushioned sofa of rose-colored damask.
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe

They are called double calipers and are the most convenient because two dimensions can be determined by them.
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen

The early introduction of negro slaves, almost exclusively males, the affinity between them and the Indians, the state of common servitude and close, daily contact produced another race.
— from The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk

In the mean time, the rapid ascending current necessarily involves an indraught from around, and consequent descending currents to supply it.
— from Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden

“I am Captain de Courcy,” the French officer said; “happily, although the French and English have taken opposite sides on this question, we can esteem and honor each other as brave and civilized adversaries.
— from The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty