She has a puckered forehead, a peering expression, and probably rounded shoulders.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the sporting world sharps and flats are often called “rooks and PIGEONS ” respectively—sometimes “spiders and flies.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Yet how long would a people remain so, in such a country?
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The perfect often denotes a present resulting state: as, vīcīne, periī, interiī , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

There is a pretty rustic smoking-room over the Swiss boat-house, in which the gentlemen sit and smoke in the summer evenings, and whence they are summoned by Clara and Alicia to drink tea, and eat strawberries and cream upon the lawn.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[591] As far as psychical research studies report of these phantasms it approaches the realm of ‘the Fairy Queen Proserpine’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Well, then, do not be angry with them; for are they not as good as a play, trying their hand at paltry reforms such as I was describing; they are always fancying that by legislation they will make an end of frauds in contracts, and the other rascalities which I was mentioning, not knowing that they are in reality cutting off the heads of a hydra?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

In explaining the succession which is worked out between buyer and seller for the purpose of creating a prescriptive right, such as a right of way over neighboring land to the land bought and sold, it was shown that one who, instead of purchasing the land, had wrongfully possessed himself of it by force, would not be treated as a successor, and would get no benefit from the previous use of the way by his disseisee.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those that will hear me speak, let ’em stay here; Those that will follow Cassius, go with him; And public reasons shall be rendered Of Caesar’s death.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Indians compare the appearance of the cliff to that of a sheet of ice, and say that the western summit was formerly crowned by a projecting rock, since destroyed by lightning, which formed a part of the great bridge which Uʻtlûñ′ta attempted to build across the valley.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Newton Stewart , 10 m. N.W. of Omagh, stands amidst pleasing river scenery on the Foyle.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

This Court declare that it is their full sense and determination that such persons as are or hereafter shalbe approued to 53 be freemen of this Corporation shal take y e Oath that is already established vpon record to be administered to y e respectiue freemen: And further, that all such as shal refuse to take the said oath, though otherwise approued p r sons yet shal not p r take of the privilidges of those that have bene formally incorporated into this civil society, vntil y e said Oath be administred vnto them:
— from Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New England by Charles Evans

The masculine pituitary type is one determined by the rule of the anterior pituitary, representing superlative brain tone and action, good all-around growth and harmonious general function, the ideal masculine organism.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

He bade the maid trim up the child’s cap and make the best of her array, and presently reached some stairs leading up to the park.
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry , and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave , as Poor Richard says.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

'Tis, however, a folly soon punished; for, Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt , as Poor Richard says.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

By the treaty which restored peace to Europe for a generation, the old dominions of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Holland, and Italy were restored, and the Bourbons again reigned over the ancient provinces of France.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

2. No automobile or motor vehicle shall be driven or operated upon any public road, street or driveway at a greater rate of speed than eighteen miles an hour, or upon any public road, street or driveway within the built up portions of any city, town or village, the limits of which shall be fixed by the municipal officers thereof, at a greater rate of speed than eight miles an hour, except where such city or town may by an ordinance or by-law allow a greater rate of speed, provided the speed limit shall not apply to race courses or speedways.
— from History of Texas Land by Texas. General Land Office