The next day the English fleet viewed the Spanish fleet coming along like the towering castles in height, her front crooked like the fashion of the moon, the wings of the fleet were extended one from the other about seven miles, or as some say eight miles asunder, sailing with the labour of the winds, the ocean as it were groaning under it, their sail was but slow, and yet at full sail before the wind.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The institution of definite chieftainship, to which are shown such extreme marks of deference, with a sort of rudimentary Court ceremonial, with insignia of rank and authority, is so entirely foreign to the whole spirit of Melanesian tribal life, that at first sight it transports the Ethnographer into a different world.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Asken , v. to ask, S, S2; eskien , MD; aschen , MD; eschen , MD; esse , MD, S2; ocsien , MD; acsien , MD, S2; axien , MD, S2; axen , S, S2, S3, C2, C3, W, W2; escade , pt. s. , S; easkede , S; haxede , S; esste , S2.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Llegó esta formidable carta a Ugíjar al mismo tiempo que la noticia de la muerte del tío Juan Gómez; todo lo cual afectó por tal extremo al viejo abogado que no volvió a echar más luz, [110-2] y murió de allí a poco, no sin escribir a última hora una 10 terrible epístola, llena de insultos y maldiciones, a su sobrino el maestro de la capilla de la catedral de Ceuta, acusándole de haberle engañado y robado, y de ser causa de su muerte.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

On painting and sculpture see E. Moor, The Hindu Pantheon , London, 1810; Burgess, Notes on the Bauddha [ 437 ] Rock Temples of Ajanta , Bombay, 1879; Griffiths Paintings of the Buddhist Cave Temples of Ajanta , 2 vols., London, 1896–97; Burgess, The Gandhāra Sculptures (with 100 plates), London, 1895; Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship (illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ), London, 1868; Cunningham’s Reports , i. and iii. (Reliefs from Buddha Gayā); Grünwedel, Buddhistiche Kunst in Indien , Berlin, 1893; Kern, Manual of Buddhism , in Bühler’s Encyclopædia , pp. 91–96, Strasburg, 1896; H. H. Wilson, Ariana Antiqua , London, 1841.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

and why in this solemn drawing-room when the study is so comfortable?” “I quite understand why you ask, sir,” said Eugénie, making a sign that her father might be seated, “and in fact your two questions suggest fully the theme of our conversation.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Unusquisque abundat sensu suo , every man abounds in his own sense; and whilst each particular party is so affected, how should one please all?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To be sure, there are some sporadic efforts, mere reiterations.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

It was quite a sensation some eighteen months ago.
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

The very mode of progression had something joyous in it; it seemed a hop and a step and a spring, suiting each motion to the tune of the air—when suddenly the singer, with a long bound, stood before me.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

She saw, then, with a dramatic flash of recognition, Thurston and Mr. Crashaw sitting behind the table; then, with a still stranger emotion, Miss Avies as one of the white-robed choir.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

And it was a shame,' said Ensign Maccombich, who usually followed his Colonel everywhere, 'for that Tibbert, or Taggart, or whatever was his name, to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.'
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

However, charming as such spontaneous effusions may be on account of their freshness, they do not possess the artistic value of an elaborately constructed and carefully finished work.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

Portmanteaus were exchanged for a pair of light leather saddle-bags, artistically embellished with squares of bright Persian carpet let in at the side, and purchased in the bazaar for twenty-two keráns, or about seventeen shillings English money.
— from A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by Harry De Windt

think that the way so plainly beaten, and so seemingly easy, must surely lead them to the same point.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

[Pg 404] showing windmills and water-mills in motion and ships sailing, electrical machines, a musical clock, puppets representing Joseph's dream, and prospects of London and of royal palaces.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman