The twilight of the room, the Swiss views on the blinds, the geraniums, the thin slices of sausage on the plates, all had a naïve, girlishly-sentimental air, and it was all in keeping with the master of the house, a good-natured little German with a round little stomach and affectionate, oily little eyes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was all old lumber, especially two portraits—one representing a man in a scarlet coat with a wig, and the other a lady with powdered and curled hair holding a rose in her hand, each of them being surrounded by a large wreath of willow branches.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Meanwhile, the Mitylenian and other Lesbian exiles set out, for the most part from the continent, with mercenaries hired in Peloponnese, and others levied on the spot, and took Rhoeteum, but restored it without injury on the receipt of two thousand Phocaean staters.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

At our last encounter The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

—a lawyer deeply read and of limitless experience?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The same reasoning will apply to the indefinite number of supposed indemonstrable truths exempted from the profane approach of philosophic investigation by the amiable Beattie, and other less eloquent and not more profound inaugurators of common sense on the throne of philosophy; a fruitless attempt, were it only that it is the two-fold function of philosophy to reconcile reason with common sense, and to elevate common sense into reason.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He thought, not of the agonies of loneliness endured by any one who begins to think in a new way of their own, not of the inevitable sufferings of a genuine spiritual revolution, but of the outrage of his programme, the outrage to his author’s vanity.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The death of Severianus will admit of less excuse, as it was dictated neither by revenge nor by policy.
— 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

The first three brigades constituted a division, which was placed under the command of General Lachambre, an officer of great energy, and of long experience in the Cuban wars.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

With Charlie Horse preaching religion of the [306] hell-fire-and-damnation brand, Frenchy and other less expert story-tellers filling the intervals of the night watches on deck with ghostly discourse, and adding to this the appearance of St. Elmo's fires at the yard arms after one of the tropic disturbances, it was no wonder that we were a bit on edge where anything that smacked of the supernatural occurred.
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

Chief amongst these was the definition of the many affluents of Lake Eyre.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

Why is there some amount of light even where shadows fall?
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

[Pg 67] The United States Rolling Stock Company Offers for Lease to Railroads, Freight Lines, Mining Companies and others Locomotive Engines, Refrigerator Cars, Box, Stock, Gondola, Dump and Flat Cars, And is prepared to build for Lease and on Contract for cash, or under the CAR TRUST SYSTEM, such Rolling Stock as may be required.
— from A Parody on Iolanthe by D. (Davison) Dalziel

6–8 , 147–173 , 213–230 , 301–310 of eighteenth century, 34 , 183–184 , 406 part played by capitalist farmers in, 200–202 , 213–266 part played by peasants in, 136–173 reaction of on peasantry, 7–8 , 231–280 resistance of peasants to, 302–304 , 317–340 See also Agriculture, Enclosure, Land, Pasture Agreements to enclose, 151–153 , 156–158 , 180–182 Agriculture— capitalist, 6–7 , 200–204 , 210–230 cattle, importance of to, 113–115 , 239–242 changes in methods of, see Agrarian changes commercial development, effect of on, 185–188 , 195–197 common rights, importance of to, 238–242 communal elements in, 128–131 , 159–161 , 205–207 , 243–246 corn growing, part played by in, 105–112 corn laws, effect of on, 112–113 , 197 custom, effect of on, 75–78 , 124–131 , 292–301 enclosure by peasants, effect of on, 152–153 , 158 , 169–173 enclosure by manorial authorities, effect of on, 216–223 farmer of demesne, part played by in, 201–204 , 210–230 for market, 214–216 for subsistence, 111–112 improvements in, 110–111 , 170–172 markets, effect of on, 196–197 , 214–215 mediæval, not incompatible with change, 75–97 , 172 , 404–405 methods of— in Cornwall, 262 , 405 " Devonshire, 167 , 262 , 405 " Essex, 167 , 262 , 405 " Kent, 167 , 262 , 405 " Lancashire, 63 , 65 " Midlands, 65 , 167 , 192 " Norfolk, 63 , 65 , 405 " Northumberland, 63 , 65 , 189–192 " Suffolk, 63 , 262 " Somerset, 110–111 , 171 , 262 , 405 " Staffordshire, 63 , 65 " Wiltshire, 63 , 65 , 212 on demesne farms, 200–230 " monastic estates, 382–383 " peasants' holdings, 105–115 open field system of, see Open field system pasture farming instead of, see Pasture rise in prices, effects of on, 197–200 , 304–310 social importance of, 341–347 speculation, effects of on, 381–383 views as to, of Clarkson, 5 , 189–190 " " Fitzherbert, 5 , 109 , 112 , 117–118 , 150 , 151–152 , 242 " " Norden, 5 , 108 , 110–111 , 118 , 150 , 151 , 171 , 308 woollen industry, effects of on, 6 , 195–197 Alien, see Immigration Alienation of land, effect of free, 86 , 138–139 fines on, 127 See also Speculation Apprenticeship, effect of on marriage, 104–106 Arable land— backbone of peasants' livelihood, 105–108 common rights, necessary for cultivation of, 239–242 conversion of to pasture, 223–230 , 232–233 , 258 corn yielded by acre of, 110–111 enclosure of for better cultivation by large farmers, 10 , 221–224 enclosure of for better cultivation by peasants, 151–153 , 162–164 estimated number of persons maintained by holding of, 261 proportion of to pasture and meadow in Staffordshire, 392–393 proportion of to pasture and meadow on demesne farms, 225–228 proportion of to pasture and meadow on peasants' holdings, 107 reconversion of pasture to— Acts for, 353–355 by Royal Commissions, 359–360 , 366–367 , 374–375 " Council, 360–361 " Justices of Assize, 376 " Justices of Peace, 386 , 418–420 " landlords, 390–391 Aristocracy— acquisition of monastic estates by some of the, 380–384 attack of on Somerset’s land policy, 367–368 , 370–372 contrast between mediæval and that of sixteenth century, 191–194 growth of commerce, effect of, on the, 187–188 , 191–194 Harrington’s account of social changes in the, 38 , 191 landholding peasants not an, 100–102 part played by in Pilgrimage of Grace, 322–324 relations of to tenants in North and South contrasted, 188–191 Tudor policy, effect of on powers of the, 188–195 unpopularity of administrative Courts with the.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

From an early date in the sixteenth century down to the present time the works of Chrysostom have occupied the attention of learned editors.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

I am also grateful to Dr. Gary Puckrein, author of Little England, for his insights concerning the role slavery played in Barbados' ill-starred attempt at independence.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

In giving instructions to agents, manufacturers and others, let each order occupy a separate paragraph.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs