Gretta was saying....” “O, the room is all right,” replied Gabriel.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

“ B. B. Merony. ” (49) Status of eastern band (p. 180 ): For some reason all authorities who have hitherto discussed the status of the eastern band of Cherokee seem to have been entirely unaware of the enactment of the supplementary articles to the treaty of New Echota, by which all preemption and reservation rights granted under the twelfth article were canceled.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night: On Christmas Eve the bells were rung; On Christmas Eve the Mass was sung; That only night in all the year Saw the staled priest the chalice rear.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Of course old Mombi had no intention of being found by Glinda; so, while her enemies were marching up the street, the witch transformed herself into a red rose growing upon a bush in the garden of the palace.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Cetewale , sb. zedoary, a root resembling ginger, MD, C2, Prompt., SB; setewale , MD, HD; setwale , Prompt.; setuale , Prompt.; sedewale , MD; sedwale , MD; 41 zedewale , Alph.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

SYN: Control, soften, allay, regulate, repress, govern, temper.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There be also in that country passing great serpents, some of six score foot long, and they be of diverse colours, as rayed, red, green, and yellow, blue and black, and all speckled.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

T HIS Indenture made the twenty sixth Day of April, Anno Regni Regis Georgii magnæ Britanniæ, &c. Septimo, Domini, Millessimo, Sepcentessimo viginti duo, between Roger Scot, late of the City of Bristol Mariner, of the one Part, and the Royal African Company of England, their Captain General and Commander in Chief, for the Time being, on the other Part , Witnesseth, that the said Roger Scot, doth hereby covenant, and agree to, and with, the said Royal African Company, their Captain General, and Commander in chief for the Time being, to serve him, or his lawful Successors, in any of the Royal African Company’s Settlements on the Coast of Africa, from the Day of the Date of these Presents, to the full Term of seven Years, from hence next ensuing, fully to be compleat and ended; there to serve in such Employment, as the said Captain General, or his Successors shall employ him; according to the Custom of the Country in like Kind.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

He expected to find a city which would be one roseate and romantic revel, given over to joys of the flesh, to wine-drinking and confetti-throwing, overrun with hussies, gone mad with lascivious waltzes, reeking with Babylonish amours.
— from Europe After 8:15 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

He was somewhat stout and short, with a round, ruddy, good-natured countenance, a bald forehead, and white hair on either side of it.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

Dawn was turning the quiet valley and distant mountains into a riotous rosy glory, when, as they drove slowly up to her house, Austin gently raised the gossamer scarf which had blown over Sylvia's face, half-hiding it from him.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes

As we have already remarked, respecting general abstract terms, a large portion of the language of ordinary life is the language of classification.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

Now at the very back of the fire I see a rising red glow.
— from The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas by William Henry Frost

With restraining agencies removed, religion, government, king, all swept away, that hideous brood born of vice, poverty, hatred, and despair came out from dark hiding-places; and what had commenced as a patriotic revolt had become a wild orgy of bloodthirsty demons, led by three master-demons, Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, vying with each other in ferocity.
— from A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele

"I will appear," I said at last, "I will appear and run round generally, but I promise nothing more.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates