She then returned to her uncle, the old gun, or son of a gun, as the case may be, and he taught her to write and speak Latin, which was the language of literature and polite society at that period.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

It may be worth while to select a particular story, and to trace its probable progress through these stages.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

During this conversation, Narvaez's chief officers had, by degrees, all arrived to pay their respects to Velasquez, which they did with every show of courtesy, as Velasquez was a man of elegant carriage and powerful stature, and had a winning countenance; his beard looked majestic, a heavy gold chain hung from his shoulder in graceful folds, and sat well on this courageous and spirited officer.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

At present we are admiring plain silver and are perhaps exacting that it be too plain?
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

and the cudgel will leap forth among the people, and play such a dance on their backs that they will not be able to stir or move for a week, and it will not leave off until thou sayest, 'Into the sack, Cudgel!'"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He stammered some awkward, profane sentences about the——-Willis and Morgan business having escaped his memory, but that he “remembered it now,” and then, under pretence of giving Fan some medicine for an imaginary cough, drew out of the battle and went away, a vanquished man.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

pátad 3 v [B3(1); c1] lie scattered all over a place, such as things for sale, things in disarray, dead bodies, litter.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He took it carefully into his arms, looked upon it with an almost paternal smile, and I heard him say, as I approached,— ‘And this, too, he has forsaken!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

From the production standpoint, signal equipment was divided into several general classifications: (1) telephone and telegraph apparatus; (2) radio apparatus; (3) line-construction materials; (4) batteries; (5) wire and cables; (6) field glasses; (7) wire carts; (8) photographic supplies, pigeons, and pigeon supplies; and (9) chests, kits, and tools, mechanical signals, electric signals, meteorological apparatus, and wrist watches.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

"What you will, you have only to ask," said the little one: "silver and gold, and precious stones, and costly furniture—all shall be thine in less than an instant."—"Silver and gold, and precious stones, and all such glittering fine things will I none," said [Pg 200] the farmer; "they have turned the heart and broken the neck of many a one before now, and few are they whose lives they make happy.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

But this, it must be confessed, was a puzzling subject, and offered continual ground for speculation; for princes and princesses, stolen away in their childhood, were extremely fictitious personages, even to an imagination which had written a novel; and Agnes could not help a thrill of apprehension when she thought of Louis and Marian, of the little romance which Rachel had made up between them, and how her own honourable father and mother would look upon this unhappy scion of a noble house—this poor boy who had no name.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There was hardly any subject which he touched, of which he did not take some view more or less original; and his reasoning was always particularly simple and to the point.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

The case of a middling-sized rocket will take up paper of four or five sheets thick; having cut your papers to a proper size, and the last sheet with a slope at one end, fold down one end, and lay your former on the double edge, and when you have rolled on the paper within two or three turns, lay the next sheet on that part which is loose, and roll it all on.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

The Numidians, party after party, skirmishing and retreating, drew the general almost to their camp, to the fatigue of his men and horses.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy