Then that curst carmagnole, auld Satan, Watches like baudrons by a ratton Our sinfu' saul to get a claut on, Wi'felon ire; Syne, whip!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

[A] lodge, rent a room or sleeping space.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Ich danke,” said the latter, and softly, with a rustle of silk she sank into the chair.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Southerner of the American Revolution owned slaves; so did the Southerner of the Civil War: but the former resembles the latter as an Englishman resembles a Frenchman.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

One would suppose it natural that the interposition of a reasonable object should stimulate boldness, and therefore lessen its intrinsic merit, and yet the reverse is the case in reality.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Note 4 ( return ) [ See the decay and repairs of St. Sophia, in Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii.
— 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

There is a rustling of stiff silks; a tread of backward and forward footsteps to and fro across the chamber.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Except for a ray of sun shining through the window, she saw nothing, and she said to her self: “He must be hidden.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

As he entered, the Captain-General said to him, “Señor Alcalde, in order to avoid any repetition of scenes such as you witnessed this afternoon, scenes that I regret, as they hurt the prestige of the government and of all good Spaniards, allow me to recommend to your especial care Señor Ibarra, so that you may afford him means for carrying out his patriotic intentions and also that in the future you prevent his [ 292 ] being molested by persons of any class whatsoever, under any pretext at all.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

These words seemed to reanimate the sunken spirits of the knight, and like a ray of sunshine shed a smile over his features.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

The present building has undergone repeated restorations, but some ancient pillars still remain with sculptured capitals, and there is also a representation of St. Sidwell, or Sidwella, whose attributes are a well and a scythe.
— from Exeter by Sidney Heath

Persia, ancient religion of; swastika; seven divisions of Cosmos, four-fold rule, 325 , 484 .
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

"The family was a rich one," she said, "and everything was most splendid.
— from What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

[Pg 186] a rich musical note; another has the deep sonorous boom of a cathedral bell, another rings sharp and shrill, and a row of stalactitic sheets answers when touched with a gamut of notes.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

The first thing she did after investing in a remnant of some sort, or a second-hand article, was to carry it the rounds of Dullerton, and insist on everybody’s guessing how much it cost.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

No longer the Lettice of short skirts and flowing locks, but an elegant young lady who swept forward with a rustle of silken skirts, and held up the sweetest pink and white face in the world to receive her father’s kiss of greeting.
— from Sisters Three by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

But nothing more came; and the old gentleman droned on about other things till poor Ben felt that he must either go to sleep like the Squire, or tip the stool over by accident, since "nestling" was forbidden, and relief of some sort he must have.
— from Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

115 On the other hand, when a man and a woman, tied to each other by deep and genuine affection, decide to live together as husband and wife, though not joined in legal wedlock, the censure which public opinion passes upon their conduct seems to an unprejudiced mind justifiable at most only in so far as it may be considered to have been their duty to comply with the laws of their country and to submit to a rule of some social importance.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The noise rose up, a riot of such sum, That, high in Heaven, Perkons heard the sound.
— from Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse by Andrejs Pumpurs