Her Dress and Figure put me in mind of the following Description in Otway 1 .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A few phrases may be regarded as compound conjunctions.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Then Esop thus his fable told: The Frogs, a freeborn people made, From out their marsh with clamor
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

When everything had been taken from me,—watch, money, and a multitude of trifles of small value,—I supposed I was free, and forthwith put my cold hands into my empty pockets and began an inoffensive jig to warm my feet and stir up some latent courage—but instantly all pistols were at my head, and the order came again: They stood Mike up alongside of me, with strict orders to keep his hands above his head, too, and then the chief highwayman said: “Beauregard, hide behind that boulder; Phil Sheridan, you hide behind that other one; Stonewall Jackson, put yourself behind that sage-bush there.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But apart from purely moral considerations, it is evident that there must have been practical dangers surrounding the early social chaos amid which the first immigrants in Europe found themselves.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In order to this, before I touch upon it directly, it will be necessary to lay down a few Preliminary Maxims, viz .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

" Thus spoke Hector; and the Trojans, fools that they were, shouted in applause, for Pallas Minerva had robbed them of their understanding.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Home, and at dinner was very angry at my people’s eating a fine pudding (made me by Slater, the cook, last Thursday) without my wife’s leave.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And, for a few peaceful moments, the orator brooded, frowningly, over the quotation.
— from Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

I thought of Milton abandoned to poverty and blindness; of witty and ingenious Butler consigned to the tender mercies of bailiffs; and starving Otway: they had lived neglected and despised, and, when they page 265 p. 265 died, a few poor mourners only had followed them to the grave; but this Byron had been made a half god of when living, and now that he was dead he was followed by worshipping crowds, and the very sun seemed to come out on purpose to grace his funeral.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

But my shipmates returning from the land of Nod, and a certain clamor within my own body having caught my ear, I became convinced that to break my fast would make me happier than anything else just at that time, and I was soon as contented as an alderman at five P. M. About two hours after this we reached our fishing place, which was twenty miles east of Nantucket.
— from Letters from a Landscape Painter by Charles Lanman

For a fortnight past my father has objected to my going on account of the disturbances throughout Germany; in the Rhine provinces, Darmstadt, Brunswick, Capel, and Saxony, where the new king has already ascended the throne.
— from Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 2 (of 2) by Maurycy Karasowski

But we do not care so much for ourselves or for them as for poor Mr. Little, who is exceedingly feeble, chiefly confined to his room, and so forlorn in this strange, homeless land.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

She could scarcely have chosen a more fitting subject, for there are few places more interesting than a famous book bindery.
— from The Secret Mark An Adventure Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

That Castilians would be indignant at learning that any foreign potentate meditated the dismemberment of that empire of which Castile was the head might have been foreseen.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The first Board of Administrators, composed largely of members of the original committee of investigators, was as follows: President, Miss Virginia Potter; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Felix Adler, Mr. John Graham Brooks, Mrs. Theodore Hellman, Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, Mrs. Henry Ollesheimer; Treasurer, Mr. J. G. Phelps Stokes; Secretary, Mr. John L. Eliot; Assistant Secretary, Miss [3] Louise B. Lockwood; Director, Professor Mary Schenck Woolman.
— from The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman