In the figure with the white tunic from Velazquez's "Surrender of Breda," here reproduced, note the wonderful variety on the edges of the white masses of the coat and the horse's nose, and also that the sharpest accents are reserved for such non-essentials as the bows on the tunic and the loose hair on the horse's forehead.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

This, with his fees and returns from several noblemen, and the small earnings of his plays must have formed the bulk of his income.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

The suffix -uj- may be used to form words indicating that which contains, bears, or is a receptacle for , some number or quantity of that which is expressed by the root.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

As they hurried up to the coach, which was now in the open street and all ready for starting, Nicholas was not a little astonished to find himself suddenly clutched in a close and violent embrace, which nearly took him off his legs; nor was his amazement at all lessened by hearing the voice of Mr. Crummles exclaim, ‘It is he—my friend, my friend!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still; 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long long thoughts.'" Answers also received from Sea Nymph, Nell Gwynne, Tattie Coram, Iceberg, An Irish Girl, W. R., The Duke of Omnium, Stella, Sunday Nose, E. M. T. , and Taffy .
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Every morning, after buying his penny paper at the corner of the Faubourg Saint Honore, he bought two rolls, and then went to his office, like a culprit who is giving himself up to justice, and got to his desk as quickly as possible, always feeling uneasy; as though he were expecting a rebuke for some neglect of duty of which he might have been guilty.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The Crillon-quotation on page 62 is due to Mr. W. M. Salter (who employed it in a similar manner in the 'Index' for August 24, 1882), and the dream-metaphor on p. 174 is a reminiscence from some novel of George Sand's—I forget which—read by me thirty years ago.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

They include:— S. rossii , the agent of East African relapsing fever; S. novyi , the agent of North American relapsing fever; S. carteri , the agent of Indian relapsing fever; S. berbera , the agent of North African and Egyptian relapsing fever.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

“All right, fellows,” said Ned, as the meeting adjourned, “let’s meet at Dave’s tomorrow morning
— from Copper Coleson's Ghost by Edward P. Hendrick

His love for art was so pronounced that his father, like the father of Mendelssohn, let him follow his bent, and at fourteen he was placed under the tutelage of Steffeck, an old-timer, whose pictures nowadays seem a relic from some nightmare of art.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

Jacko was now well, and ready for some new mischief; and Minnie, who heard a ludicrous account of the story, laughed till she cried.
— from Minnie's Pet Monkey by Madeline Leslie

No G. A. R. for Samuel; no excursions, no celebrations, no picnics for him.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith

He had too great a reverence for scholarship not to wish me to become a scholar if possible; though he more than once said to me somewhat sadly, "Master books, but do not let them master you.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 by Various

Arrangements are made for the depositing (sheltered from the weather) of various pieces of useful apparatus, such as speaking-trumpet, telescope, signal-flag, perhaps a rifle for shooting narwals, compass, etc.
— from Memorials of the Sea: My Father Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by William Scoresby