"Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace," said the Dormouse; "not in that ridiculous fashion."
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

All day long he had been watching from the forest that skirted the highroad a large French convoy of cavalry baggage and Russian prisoners separated from the rest of the army, which—as was learned from spies and prisoners—was moving under a strong escort to Smolénsk.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The then existing double-headed eagles of Austria and Russia probably supply the reason why, when the German Empire was created, the Prussian eagle in a modified form was preferred to the resuscitation of the older double-headed eagle, which had theretofore been more usually accepted as the symbol of Empire.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

‘And before I go, gentlemen,’ said the excited Mr. Pickwick, turning round on the landing, ‘permit me to say, that of all the disgraceful and rascally proceedings—’ ‘Stay, sir, stay,’ interposed Dodson, with great politeness.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

So he got into a boat and rowed, pulling silently, close up to the keels of the enemy; and gradually, by screwing in an auger, he bored the planks (a device practiced by Hadding and also by Frode), nearest to the water, and soon made good his return, the oar-beat being scarce audible.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

[Pg 232] A RARE PICTURE SHOWING MOCHA COFFEE GROWING ON TERRACES IN YEMEN, ARABIA
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

'Oh, all right,' Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

He who would combine both modes of a relationary practice, such as that of medicine and surgery, should be well acquainted with the form and structures characteristic of all regions of the human body; and it may be doubted whether he who pursues either mode of practice, wholly exclusive of the other, can do so with honest purpose and large range of understanding, if he be not equally well acquainted with the subject matter of both.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

It was covered with shingles, with a roof projecting some four feet over the wall, and was surmounted at the front gable by a tower, about twelve feet square.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

"We have had a rough preliminary survey, and the result is distinctly encouraging," he read.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

“It looks a rum place,” said Dick.
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

"Enlist, serve time, and retire with a full pension, all on the same blasted spaceship, the Polaris !" Transcriber’s Note Typographical errors corrected: familarity changed to familiarity but's changed to buts word changed to work Possible typographical error left as is: All ready possibly should read Already Standardized hyphenation: paralo ray changed to paralo-ray upperclassmen changed to upper-classmen
— from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell

Then in ruby crown and royal purple she served them all.
— from The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald