The bones of her legs below the knees looked no thicker than a finger from in front, but were extraordinarily thick seen from the side.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

they associate in large flocks in autumn & winter and are frequently found in flocks of from five to six even in summer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

they associate in large flocks in autumn & winter and are frequently found in flocks of from five to Six even in Summer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This canal served commerce until the century of Rome's Antonine emperors; it was then abandoned and covered with sand, subsequently reinstated by Arabia's Caliph Omar I, and finally filled in for good in 761 or 762 A.D. by Caliph Al–Mansur, in an effort to prevent supplies from reaching Mohammed ibn Abdullah, who had rebelled against him.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

In four minutes it had cleared the four vertical leagues separating it from the surface of the ocean, and after emerging like a flying fish, it fell back into the sea, making the waves leap to prodigious heights.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Cum autem duobus modis, id est aut vi aut fraude, fiat iniuria, fraus quasi vulpeculae, vis leonis videtur; utrumque homine alienissimum, sed fraus odio digna maiore.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

II. adj. of a fox . fyxenhȳd (i) f. she-fox’s skin .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As for flirtation, I formerly indulged in a little, now I shall do so no more, though I am still young.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let grief and fury hasten on revenge; Let Tamburlaine for his offences feel Such plagues as heaven and we can pour on him: I long to break my spear upon his crest, And prove the weight of his victorious arm; For fame, I fear, hath been too prodigal
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

After first Fredericksburg I felt discouraged myself, and doubted whether our rulers could carry on the war.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

B. A venomous snake, Bungarus , the ‘Krait,’ with a fixed fang in front and a few simple teeth behind it.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

Hence, as there were but the captain and [34] me to keep this shuttlecock of a fancy flying, it fluttered before long to the ground; perhaps the quicker, because on the Sunday following our speaking with the Plymouth snow, there happened a piece of work, sharp and real enough to drive all ideas of visions and phantasms out of our heads.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

I gave warning to the man in the bow, who stood a few feet in front of me, and he immediately gave a sharp tug on the tow line, which checked the men ashore.
— from Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

He knelt and pulled the apron free from its fastenings.
— from The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Besides this there are a furniture factory, iron foundry, machine shops, flouring mills, car shops, and a number of smaller industries.
— from Tacoma and Vicinity by Loan and Trust Company Oakland Land

A rainy night may depress a woman nursing a sick child that is not her own—a child already fighting for its feeble, unclaimed, repudiated life, in a world of weeping clouds; but such a night diffuses cheer when the raindrops are heard tapping the roof above beloved bookshelves, tapping the window-panes; when there is low music in the gutter on the back porch; when a student lamp, throwing its shadow over the ceiling and the walls, reserves its exclusive lustre for lustrous pages—pages over which men for centuries have gladly burnt out the oil of their brief lamps, their iron and bronze, their silver and gold and jewelled lamps—many-colored eyes of the nights of ages.
— from The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen

A bone nailed to a tree [Pg 24] a few feet in front of the window attracts crows as well as lesser birds.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

All this and much more I had heard before I saw Madame Grambeau or her abode—a picturesque affair in itself, however humble—consisting originally of a log-house, to which more recently white frame wings had been attached, projecting a few feet in front of the primitive building, and connected thereto by a shed-roofed gallery, which embraced the whole front of the log-cottage, along which ran puncheon steps the entire length of the grand original tree-trunk, as of the porch itself.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

That the book should be the story of a governess was perhaps necessary to the circumstances of the writer: and the governess was [Pg 18] already a favourite figure in fiction.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid