Having carefully observed the horsemen, conversed awhile with the cavaliers, and bidden them farewel, the band wheeled round the court, and, led by Verezzi, issued forth under the portcullis; Montoni following to the portal, and gazing after them for some time.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Adrian, who felt all the fresh spirit infused by returning health, clasped his hands in delight, and exclaimed with transport: "O happy earth, and happy inhabitants of earth!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The most permanent bad results of undue complication of school subjects and congestion of school studies and lessons are not the worry, nervous strain, and superficial acquaintance that follow (serious as these are), but the failure to make clear what is involved in really knowing and believing a thing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Its use, almost exclusively, was now, on Sundays and other occasions of Divine Worship, to admit the Troops, whose benches extended along by the wall on that side the whole length of the church.—The upper windows on all the four sides were now made circular-headed.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

" "But I don't know that I am apt at tending fowls," said the dubious Tess.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The patterns on the gold-worked curtains ran up and down, melting and reforming as the folds shook and quivered to the night wind; and when the talk grew more earnest the jewelled forefinger snapped out little sparks of light between the embroideries.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I have driven away the fiend,” she added.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After the first sight, the elders make presents of money to the junior members of the family and the servants.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

After the second year the war assumed the following shape: Hannibal, having entered Italy by the north, after a series of successes had passed southward around Rome and fixed himself in southern Italy, living off the country,—a condition which tended to alienate the people, and was especially precarious when in contact with the mighty political and military system of control which Rome had there [16] established.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And neither of us is lacking a heart—though it may be; one can't tell, one's self; one has to find out about that from some girl.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

Stung to the quick, he took a proud, unreasoning determination to say not one word in his own defense, and after the first stormy flash that overspread his countenance, he stood with eyes cast down and a white obdurate face that defied all questioning.
— from Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful Days by Flora L. (Flora Louisa) Shaw

There was a jingle of sleigh bells; the reindeer were racing across the frozen snow; and there, in the bright moonlight, was old Santa trimming their tree!
— from The Graymouse Family by Nellie M. (Nellie Mabel) Leonard

[145] Then the eyes grew fixed, and the face slowly settled down into the stillness of death.
— from For John's Sake, and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram

Robert, from the hollow, looking across the far shore, saw lofty, wooded hills and back of them blue mountains.
— from The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

These reforms do not amount to very much as yet, but they are the first steps towards remedying Piers Plowman’s grievances and, considering that it is less than six hundred years since that excellent visionary made his moan over the law and the poor, and the drawback poverty has in the procedure of the Courts, there seems to have been no very unusual delay in Government taking the matter up.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

The dispute of the early settlers with the General Court showed that the people were particular as to the quality of their spiritual food, and this fastidiousness seems to have been handed down from generation to generation, judging from the personnel of the men.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various

I arrived at Leopol the sixth day after I had left Warsaw, having stopped a couple of days at Prince Zamoiski's; he had forty thousand ducats a-year, but also the falling sickness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 25: Russia and Poland by Giacomo Casanova