As we move on from Thornhill with Vaughan on the left and Markham on the right, the name of another rather memorable early missionary recurs, whose memory is associated with both these townships—Vincent Philip Mayerhoffer.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

let her come into the drawing-room after dinner; and request Miss Eyre to accompany her.’”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Besides I have a great accumulation of notes, and I fancied I could reduce them into a report more efficiently in comparative seclusion.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As for myself, I sat down and rubbed my eyes, wondering if I had been asleep.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Valesius alleges several testimonies to confirm this character; to which I shall add the evidence of the presbyter Constantine, (A.D. 488,) who, in the life of St. Germain, calls the Armorican rebels mobilem et indisciplinatum populum.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If the progression of parts is correct, if discords are properly prepared, -152- sudden and remote modulations, even of the harshest and most uncommon kind will be comparatively simple and may be approached with some degree of confidence.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

There be monuments in this church,—of Robert Liliarde, or Hiliarde, esquire; Margaret, daughter to the Lady Audley, wife to Sir Thomas Audley; William Grevill, esquire, and Margaret his wife; one of the heirs of William Spershut, esquire; Dame Katherine, wife to John Stoke, alderman; Robert Merfin, esquire; William Undall, esquire; Lord Ospay Ferar; Sir George Brewes, knight; John Browne; Lady Brandon, wife to Sir Thomas Brandon; William, Lord Scales; William, Earl Warren; Dame Maude, wife to Sir John Peach; Lewknor; Dame Margaret Elrington, one of the heirs of Sir Thomas Elrington; John Bowden, esquire; Robert St. Magil; John Sandhurst; John Gower; John Duncell, merchant-tailor, 1516; John Sturton, esquire; Robert Rouse; Thomas Tong, first [365] Norroy, and after Clarenceaux king of arms; William Wickham, translated from the see of Lincoln to the bishopric of Winchester in the month of March, 1595, deceased the 11th of June next following, and was buried here; Thomas Cure, esquire, saddler to King Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, deceased the 24th of May, 1598, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

My only companions had been unamiable children, and ignorant, wrong-headed girls; from whose fatiguing folly, unbroken solitude was often a relief most earnestly desired and dearly prized.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

4. Not to admit any determinate quantity, or any relation of quantity, as the cause of a certain effect, if the effect is produced by different or opposite measures and relations; or if these measures and relations may exist, and yet the effect may not be produced.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

‘Bless you, honey!’ cried she, affectionately returning my embrace.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

All this was horror, but how faint the view To what too soon all real must ensue, Shall I relate how sunk each noble name?
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

The walls were of plain planks painted a dark red: the roof, on which I could almost rest my elbow, was neatly endued with a coating of tar.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

[21] The above relations may easily be expressed from this point of view by comparing the atomic volumes.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

I was now delighted, however, to find such general confidence, which augmented that of the Marechal, and rendered more easy the execution of our project against him; punishment he more and more deserved by the indecency and affectation of his discourses, and the audacity of his continual challenges.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 15 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

In it are represented many extraordinary and even fantastic plans for the lay-out of gardens, including no less than nine in the form of labyrinths.
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews

The man who preaches the gospel is by all reasonable men expected to do as much labor as his strength will permit.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

om the highest biological standpoint, conditions under which the so-called rights of others are recognized must ever be regarded as exceptional conditions—that is to say, as partial restrictions of the instinctive power-seeking will-to-live of the individual, made to satisfy the more powerful will-to-live of the mass.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

“Say, you’re a regular Mormon!” expostulated Sid.
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick

The latter lady was leaning meditatively, her arm on a side of her chair, like a pensive queen, with a ready, mild, embracing look for the company.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster