“And as for political economy,” continued Kostanzhoglo, without noticing him, and with his face charged with bilious sarcasm, “—as for political economy, it is a fine thing indeed.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Also, a fine paper Edition, cloth, neat, with a Photographic Portrait ( the only one known to have been taken ) by Maull and Polyblank , price 2s.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

To Thenichka, however, then a girl of sixteen, she never referred; and few people even caught a glimpse of the maiden, since she lived a life so modest and retired that only on Sundays could Nikolai Petrovitch contemplate the delicate profile of her face in an aisle of the parish church.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

At first practically everybody came to California under the excitement of the gold rush and with the intention of having at least one try at the mines.
— from The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White

[Pg 119] into halves; scrape four carrots and four parsnips each cut into four pieces.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

“It’s sthuck we are like flies on a fly paper, eh, Captain Russell?”
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

I am sorry to say that this country in respect to religion is in a state almost as lamentable as the darkest regions of the East, and the blame of this rests entirely upon the Greek hierarchy, who discountenance all attempts to the spiritual improvement of the people, who, poor things, are exceedingly willing to receive instruction, and, notwithstanding the scantiness of their means in general for the most part, eagerly buy the tracts which a few pious English Christians cause to be printed and hawked in the neighbourhood.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

on gradually reduces confusion to order, and from perplexity evolves correct decision.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

“She could dig beneath her surface and find practically every chemical element required in the prosecution of modern war....
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

After twenty-five long years of suffering such as few people endure, caused from exposure while in the military service of the United States, I contracted kidney and bladder disease, which shortly afterwards resulted in the formation of a calculus or stone.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

The book consists of essays, poems, short stories, and dramatic dialogue, each within the compass of a few pages, each contributed by a different writer as an example of his work for the year.
— from The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes