I gladly availed myself of such a respite, and followed her into a large and beautiful conservatory, plentifully furnished with flowers, considering the season—but, of course, I had little attention to spare for them.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

‘Did your father love her?’ Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest peculiar to her; an interest gone astray like a banished creature, and hiding in solitary places.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

They took him to a room where other prisoners were waiting and here he stayed until court adjourned, when he had another long and bitterly cold ride in a patrol wagon to the county jail, which is on the north side of the city, and nine or ten miles from the stockyards.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In Ireland it survived in a stray instance or two into this century, and songs like "William Riley" attest the sympathy of the peasant with the eloping couple.) (d) A veteran, one of the Doughty, must be such a man as will attack one foe, will stand two, face three without withdrawing more than a little, and be content to retire only before four.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The library, which was formed, or at least arranged, by Casanova, and which remains as he left it, contains some 25,000 volumes, some of them of considerable value; one of the most famous books in Bohemian literature, Skala’s History of the Church, exists in manuscript at Dux, and it is from this manuscript that the two published volumes of it were printed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

2 one who promotes a love affair by carrying messages, arranging meetings and the like.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He seemed to feel that as long as Bounderby could make no discovery without his knowledge, he was so far safe.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

O my God; a large and boundless chamber!
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

At least, a beautiful cravat, I should have said—no, a belt, I mean—I beg your pardon.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

Four minutes later a light artillery barrage came down on and just in front of our assembly trenches, causing slight casualties.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

"<1> If a purely technical expression may be pardoned here, it could be said that the motor image,<2> that is, the coordinated muscular tensions which make the group feeling of the fundamental rhythm, is always latent, and becomes conscious whenever anything conflicts with it.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes

Children that had strayed away from their elders in the crowd; tired mothers who did not know where to warm the baby’s milk, and were grateful for a little aid; bewildered country people who sought information concerning the best way to leave their rigs so that they would be perfectly safe while they did the sights—yes, there was really no limit to the ways a wide-awake scout, anxious to do his full duty, could extend that helping hand—a part of his profession.
— from The Boy Scouts as County Fair Guides by Robert Shaler

" "Never?" "Well—not if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—" She drooped her head a little lower, and he waited again, intensely hoping for a flash of indignation, or at least a brief cry of denial.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

It will be seen from the above that the Chinese Tripitaka is a literary and bibliographical collection rather than an ecclesiastical canon.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

In view of these facts, we cannot regard the glowing language of Babbage an exaggeration, when he says, “The soul of the negro, whose fettered body, surviving the living charnel-house of his infected prison, was thrown into the sea to lighten the ship, that his Christian master might escape the limited justice at length assigned by civilized man to crimes whose profit had long gilded their atrocity, will need, at the last great day of human accounts, no living witness of his earthly agony: when man and all his race shall have disappeared from the face of our planet, ask every particle of air still floating over the unpeopled earth, and it will record the cruel mandate of the tyrant.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

[17] We have attached letters A, B, C, to indicate the correspondences of the ancient instruments, and cyphers 1, 2, 3, to indicate the correspondences of the modern instruments.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It is into this chaotic method of gaining experience that the teacher comes with her interpretive power—she sees in it the beginnings of all the big things of life—and like a bigger child she joins, and like a bigger child she improves.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

Ecce novus surgit redivivus Æson ab undis Fortior, arma petens, juvenili pectore miles ..., "Redivivus is taken in the active sense; it's a license, or at least a bold construction.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About