Miss Bravassa’s ringlets came out of curl with the heat and anxiety; even Mr. Crummles himself kept peeping through the hole in the curtain, and running back, every now and then, to announce that another man had come into the pit.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Such ailments never last, and have never any really bad effects, nor are they of immediate danger.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

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— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

You then begin the count again reiterating between each number that you will positively open your eyes at the count of five and be wide awake.
— from A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers

The peach-tree inclines to thicken at the top, the small inside branches die, and are removed by every neat cultivator.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

In sailing up the Hudson River, about one hundred miles above New York, you will discover on the west side a rather broad estuary, named by the old Dutch settlers, the Katterskill Creek.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

They are covered with a rich blue enamel named mazarine, after the cardinal of that name.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker

Give your face a Russian bath every night; that is, bathe it with water so hot that you wonder how you can bear it, and then, a minute after, with moderately cold water, that will make your face glow with warmth; dry it with a soft towel.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

So modern was everything that the host had got down Mr. Joseph Ascherberg, the financier, to hold a roulette bank every night against all comers; but he took care that he himself, or his own confidential man, turned the wheel and spun the marble.
— from Where Love Is by William John Locke

Thus pinioned, and receiving blows every now and then, because I did not move fast enough, I was dragged before their chief, who had made a halt, surrounded by his attendants.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier