If they meant to execute him at La Greve, it could scarcely be worth while to gag him, as they had nearly reached the place of execution.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

so after him?' "It is May Ellen's wedding day, The sky is blue and fair, And many a lord and lady gay In church are gathered there.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Also Colonel the Duke de Choiseul, nephew of Choiseul the great, of Choiseul the now deceased; he and Engineer Goguelat are passing and repassing between Metz and the Tuileries; and Letters go in cipher,—one of them, a most important one, hard to decipher; Fersen having ciphered it in haste.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It was upon the whole a very distinguished party, for independently of the lesser theatrical lights who clustered on this occasion round Mr. Snittle Timberry, there was a literary gentleman present who had dramatised in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels as fast as they had come out—some of them faster than they had come out—and who was a literary gentleman in consequence.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In a large number of cases, as with the salivary and lacrymal glands, intestinal canal, &c., the power of attention seems to rest, either chiefly, or as some physiologists think, exclusively, on the vaso-motor system being affected in such a manner that more blood is allowed to flow into the capillaries of the part in question.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

As a goldsmith takes the material of an image and hammers out of it another newer and more beautiful form, so also the soul after casting off the body and letting go ignorance, creates for itself another newer and more beautiful form, either that of the Fathers or the Gandharvas or the Gods, or Prajāpati or Brahma, or other beings (IV. iv. 4).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

So true is the Italian proverb: Ogn’un ama la giustizia in cosa d’altrui.—[Every
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One funnel-shaped depression in the morass, of a livid green in color from some lichen which festered in it, will always remain as a nightmare memory in my mind.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

I once owned a little garden in Canada, but never a dog-daisy grew there.
— from Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

This was called “I'm Grandpa,” the title being printed in large black letters; the companion picture was entitled “I'm Grandma,” a little girl in cap and “specs,” wearing mitts, and knitting.
— from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

It was found to contain great riches, and Lucy gave its contents and herself to Bracidas.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

She says if roses and lilies grow in courts, why did he pluck the primrose of the field, which some country swain might have won and valued!
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

So diaphanous and ethereal is this marvellously expressive young medium, music, that the composers could only pin a strain here and there to concrete form—as a bit of lace from a lovely garment is caught by a thorn.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

If Bridgeman had only said a light garret, I could have {303} accommodated him.
— from Five Acres Too Much A truthful elucidation of the attractions of the country, and a careful consideration of the question of profit and loss as involved in amateur farming, with much valuable advice and instruction to those about purchasing large or small places in the rural districts by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

“I keep forgetting you’re not still a little girl I can pick up and hug.”
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Soil and location: Grows in cool, moist situations. Enemies: The foliage of the spruce is sometimes affected by red spider , but is apt to be more seriously injured by drought, wind, and late frosts.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison