Occasionally, however, a pair of wings will be found in saltire, but such a disposition is most unusual.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"Yes," said Alice doubtfully: "it means—to—make—anything—prettier."
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

the night and morning being cloudy I was again disappointed in making the observations I wished.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Mi fiebre fue a doña Inés My fever opened the tomb quien abrió la sepultura.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

2 Fray Gaspar de San Agustin, O.S.A., who came to the Philippines in 1668 and died in Manila in 1724, was the author of a history of the conquest, but his chief claim to immortality comes from a letter written in 1720 on the character and habits of “the Indian inhabitants of these islands,” a letter which was widely circulated and which has been extensively used by other writers.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

She stumbled through it, pausing now and again to wipe her eyes, and when she had finished, said:- “An’ does it mean that you come by the money honestly?”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Shall I own to you, that, however I may differ from Captain Mirvan in other respects, yet my opinion of the town, its manners, inhabitants, and diversions, is much upon upon a level with his own?
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

In the Philippines a decoction is made of ginger and brown sugar, called tahu by the Chinese who drink it regularly as we do coffee in the early hours of the morning.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

What, after all, did it matter if her looks departed?
— from The Stronger Influence by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

exclaimed Claude, walking up and down in marked agitation.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

It was a day in May, when spring dwells below in the great valleys, early flowers bloom, and clouds sail across the blue sky.
— from The Trail of the Elk by Mikkjel Fønhus

There are depths in music which the melodeon, even when it is called a cabinet organ, with a colored boy at the bellows, cannot sound.
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner

And, doubtless, it may excusably be deemed supernatural that the insect should adopt off-hand precisely that six-sided figure, and precisely that inclination of the angles of the same figure's pyramidal roof or floor, which, only by very refined and recondite investigation, can be scientifically shown to be those best fitted for the purpose.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

I usually ask four questions regarding every immigrant group, and the answer determines, in my own mind at least, the desirability of its coming to the United States.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

Both these results follow when another division is made, and when all the least genera, with from only one to four species, are altogether excluded from the tables.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I looked upon this obstacle as insuperable; but if I had been as indifferent on such questions as young men generally are, there would still have remained a difficulty in my own nature, which is a rooted dislike to everything which is done for social advancement.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton