“Oh! Monseigneur!” “AU REVOIR, Monsieur Bonacieux, AU REVOIR.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

For an instant the Colonel looked nonplussed, and just a bit uncomfortable; and Mrs. Sellers looked actually distressed; but the next moment the head of the house was himself again, and exclaimed: “All right, my boy, all right—always glad to see you—always glad to hear your voice and take you by the hand.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

But in the main the injury for which the manufacturer and bookbinder are responsible must be attributed rather to ignorance of the effect of the means employed to give the leather the outward qualities required for binding, than to the intentional production of an inferior article.
— from Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries by John Cotton Dana

The most important subject of local politics that came up for discussion was an attempt recently made by a reforming local governor to take a census of the men of Jilu.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

We have but to compare these lines with the skulls of the Egyptians, Kurds, and the heroic type of heads in the statues of the gods of Greece, to see that there was formerly an ancient race marked by a receding forehead; and that the practice of flattening the skull was probably an attempt to approximate the shape of the head to this standard of an early civilized and dominant people.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

That, then, was what unhappiness meant, not a mood of refined and romantic melancholy, but a raging fire of depression that seemed to burn his life away, both physically and mentally, with intervals of drowsy listlessness.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

They therefore encamped in a rich meadow, by a rippling stream.
— from The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The election of a representative may be a religious thing.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

After their arrival, most of their time was spent in feasting and rioting, more becoming a returning triumph than an entrance into a new country.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

" By the same inspired interpretation, the "Stone" becomes both a symbol of superhuman power, being "cut out without hands;" and a type of Christ, the Ancient of Days, in His coming to the earth as a resistless Monarch; banishing all rule and authority.
— from Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer