Now the waiter has taken a long pole and clashed the curtains together.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Reverend Dietrichson speaks of him, in 1844, as prosperous and as occupying a leading position among Chicago Norwegians at that time.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Consul Dudley at Liverpool provided a continuous supply.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He wore a long Prince Albert coat.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

ANT: Laud, praise, approve, commend.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

According to the Biographia Britannica, he was graduated at Cambridge with the degree of Master of Arts and became a learned physician and chemist.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Yet in the first days of his reign, he put to death four consular senators, his personal enemies, and men who had been judged worthy of empire; and the tediousness of a painful illness rendered him, at last, peevish and cruel.
— 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

We’re to have two kinds of jelly, red and yellow, and whipped cream and lemon pie, and cherry pie, and three kinds of cookies, and fruit cake, and Marilla’s famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers, and pound cake and layer cake, and biscuits as aforesaid; and
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Almond, Laurel Perfidy Allspice Compassion.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Gruyer, Anatole : La Peinture au Château de Chantilly.
— from Chantilly in History and Art by Luise Richter

Our opinion is that The Return from Parnassus , after having been acted before a learned public at Cambridge, came into the hands of players who applied the manner in which lyric poets had been criticised in it, to dramatic writers.
— from Shakspere and Montaigne An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works by Jacob Feis

She spent most of Friday in her "den," finishing a little picture and chatting from time to time with the girls who were busy in the adjoining room.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Not that he couldn't fight, but he preferred not if a little practical arbitration could be made to do the work of battle.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Yet the process goes on without ceasing, and in conformity with some law of divine periodicity; but it is Man that is created in the beginning, of his full stature, even as is symbolically recorded in the Book of Genesis; not a hairy quadrumana that by the operation of the laws of natural selection and the survival of the fittest, ultimately and through endless ages, and by the most infinitesimal changes, becomes at last Plato and Caesar, Leonardo and Dante, St. Louis and Shakespeare and St. Francis.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

By a little pushing and coaxing, Nettie made a place for the boxes, and then began her task of removing them.
— from Little Nettie; or, Home Sunshine by Susan Warner

The coarser and heavier fragments are obviously deposited first, that is, as soon as the current begins to lose its force by becoming amalgamated with the stiller depths of the ocean, but the finer and lighter particles are carried further on, and eventually deposited in a deeper and stiller portion of the ocean.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

She was his cousin, Lily Malvezin, sister of Geoffrey Winlow, and wife of a Liberal peer, a charming creature, whose pink cheeks, bright eyes, quick lips, and rounded figure, endowed her with the prettiest air of animation.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The question on the amendment was at length put and carried—45 to 37.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress