‘“You don’t know this is a private room, I suppose, fellow?” said the gentleman in sky-blue.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

This single modification, which was purely temporary and confined to papers of one political colour, occurred on my first settlement as a political refugee in Switzerland, but lasted only until, through Liszt's exertions, my operas began to be produced all over Germany, in spite of my exile.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

An insignificant and playful rhythm is suitable to the triangle, tambourine, castanets and side drum, a vigourous and straightforward rhythm may be given to the bass drum, cymbals and gong.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Of our own country, the splendid races North or South, and especially of the Western and Pacific regions, it sometimes seems to me their myriad noblest Homeric and Biblic elements are all untouch'd, left as if ashamed of, and only certain very minor occasional delirium tremens glints studiously sought and put in print, in short tales, "poetry" or books.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Either a rational principle is already conceived, as of itself the determining principle of the will, without regard to possible objects of desire (and therefore by the more legislative form of the maxim), and in that case that principle is a practical a priori law, and pure reason is supposed to be practical of itself.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Along the sea-coast footholds had been obtained at Plymouth, Washington, and New Bern, in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris Islands, Hilton Head, Fort Pulaski, and Port Royal, in South Carolina; Fernandina and St. Augustine, in Florida.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

2 with forms referring to a place: right in [such-and-such] a place.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Messer Gentile took order that 475 all things needful should be forthcoming and that she should be tended as she were his proper wife and presently returned in secret to Modona.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He was fond of going about disguised, and some of his freaks of this kind are pleasantly related in Scott's Tales of a Grandfather.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

He advanced among the throng of traitors with a countenance that showed no trace of his emotions, and pleasantly remarked,— "I saw the light in your house while passing, and, thinking that you must be having a gay time together, I have come in to share your pleasure and drain a cup with you."
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris

Of the nine trustees, two are Episcopalians residing in Scotland, one an Episcopalian residing in England, and six are Presbyterians residing in Scotland.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Being called to aid a popular revolution in Samos, the Athenians captured its chief city and re-established their own influence.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

The struggle between the King and Parliament resulted in securing popular control over the posts of the kingdom.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

In replacing valve stems and push rods, it should be made certain that each works freely in its guide before the spring is installed.
— from The Gasoline Motor by Harold Whiting Slauson

Here and there, at levels below this zone, many Alpine species may be found, either transported by accident from their natural home, or finding a permanent refuge in some cool spot sheltered from the sun, and moistened by streamlets descending from the snow region.
— from The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers. by H. N. (Henry Neville) Hutchinson

xxii., one of the most valuable writings of a period rich in such works.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

The widowed one, far from cherishing her grief, made a strong effort to be cheerful; but her gentle smile, like moonlight in a painting, retained its sweetness when the life was gone.
— from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child