The tree exudes an abundant gum very similar to gum arabic which latter is the product of another species of acacia ( A. Arabica , Willd.).
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The Turkey had not a good voice, so he asked the Grouse to give him lessons.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The woman gazed at it a moment, and then said, in a gloomy voice, “Suppose it’s false?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But, aside from such exceptional cases as Gilbert v. Stone, the two tests agree, and the difference need not be considered in what follows.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His affable manners and gentle virtues secured him, as soon as they became known, the regard and affections of the public.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Seated among these, we looked through a green vista supported by thousands of natural columns, the whitened stems of trees, upon a distant prospect made so radiant by its contrast with the shade in which we sat and made so precious by the arched perspective through which we saw it that it was like a glimpse of the better land.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Iî sunt virî quôrum armîs Germânî victî sunt.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The manners and government of a people who have little commerce with other countries are generally very simple; and the history of what passes in one family or village may serve as a specimen of a nation.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

they look upon you with an eye of contempt, as men who have not a right idea of the universal image of nature, and that do not consider how many predecessors every one of us has had, rich, poor, kings, slaves, Greeks, and barbarians; and though you were the fiftieth descendant from Hercules, they look upon it as a great vanity, so highly to value this, which is only a gift of fortune.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet limbs of a girl. Vanishing, swerving, evermore curving again into sight, Softly the sand-beach wavers away to a dim gray looping of light.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The snow was dimly lighted on the long slope to the library; and straight ahead, in the circle beneath the statue of Washington, the bronze silhouette of a great Virginian stood sharply cut against the luminous haze of the street.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

On the whole we are going very slowly.
— from From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident by Evgenii Sigizmundovich Politovskii

With a sly wink to the crowd, as much as to say, "We'll have some fun with this individual," Winchell assumed a solemn face, and in a ghostly voice said to one of the company: "The poor fellow we were speaking of is dead!"
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

"Of course, I am sorry you are going, very sorry, Charlie; but, even if you go altogether on to the staff, I shall see a good deal of you, for, as the king is always with the army, this must be your headquarters still.
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"That ought to be a good Velasquez," said the Doge.
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

The room rang with the cry, "Incurable idiot!" and Gerrit Van Swearingen cried louder than any, "Go drown thyself, and spare thy mother shame!"
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

And as she stands in her modest way just within the celestial gate, I seem to see a kind hand laid upon her dark head, and to hear a gentle voice saying in her ear, "Friend, come up higher!" H2 anchor SOME ADDITIONAL INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF "HARRIET.
— from Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

At the conclusion of her performance, Frederick and his friends clapped madly, while the vast audience gave very scanty signs of applause.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann