As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

ANT: Selfish, cynical, egotistical, morose, misanthropic.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down "stupid things!" on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn't know how to spell "stupid," and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

" There are many others of the Negro folk-songs as striking and characteristic as these, as, for instance, the three strains in the third, eighth, and ninth chapters; and others I am sure could easily make a selection on more scientific principles.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

“She could dress my hair with infinite taste; she could trim a hat better than most milliners, and she could even make my dresses.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Suma Yokachiro; and the translator of the first and second Chinese editions, Mr. Ch'ên En-ch'êng—all of them have made direct or indirect improvements in the content or style of the work.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

She grew better; she was about to disengage herself from my arm, but I clasped her tender, soft figure in a still closer embrace; my cheek almost touched hers, from which was wafted flame.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Desde el término de esta navegación el viaje a los Andes se continúa en mula, ascendiendo la falda hasta el Paso del Arenal, por donde se entra al alto valle central del Ecuador, que nos lleva en dirección a Quito, teniendo a la vista el Chimborazo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In the prose drama which attempts honestly to reproduce American social conditions, elder men like Howard and Herne, and later ones like Thomas, Gillette and Clyde Fitch, have done worthy pioneer work.
— from How to See a Play by Richard Burton

Each of the boats named possessed, as part of her fighting equipment, a gun mounted in the bows upon fore-and-aft slides, those belonging to the launch and yawl being 18-pounder carronades, while the first and second cutters each mounted a 12-pounder.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

The plan was, to coast along down the lake as far as Sandy Creek, eight miles from Sackett's Harbor, run up the creek, and thence carry them overland.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

“Mist’r Rattlesnake set an’ look at Sis’ Cat er minit, ’caze yer see he ain’ wake’ up good yit.
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

A treshonore seigneur le roy de Chastell, &c. Et seneschall d’Anglterre, supplie Iohne fitz & heyre Iohne Hastings nadgares counte de Penbroke, de estre receue a son office de porter les grandes esperon, d’oores deuant le roy nostre seigneur ore a son coronement, en mannor cōme William le marischall son ancester les porta il coronoment de roy.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

[261] "An' say," continued Ed Mason, "how are we goin' to attack the house when we get there?
— from The Believing Years by Edmund Lester Pearson

Bill about the length of the head, nearly as high as long, exceedingly compressed, at the base as high as the head, obliquely furrowed on the sides; upper mandible with a horny dotted rim along the basal margin; its dorsal line decurved from the base, the ridge narrow, at the base rounded, the sides rapidly sloped, with three or four curved oblique grooves, the edges sharp, their outline nearly straight, the tip deflected, very narrow, but obtuse; lower mandible with the angle very narrow, and so placed, that the base of the bill is inflected beyond the perpendicular, the dorsal line a little convex at first, towards the end ascending, and nearly straight, the sides perpendicular, the edges sharp; the tip very narrow, obliquely truncate; gape-line extending downwards a little beyond the base of the bill, and furnished with a soft corrugated extensile membrane.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon

, para entregar 40 Rs. de á 8 á Doh ( sic ) B. Ayad, Hamet B. Amara, Bujema, Bentasir, Bumentel, Yha Maaux B. hatafia, jeques de Amayan ( sic ) con el mismo objeto.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos