It ended as it was sure to end, in my gradually toying with her from one excitement to another, until she was completely fucked in her thirteenth year.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The accessories are a pleated shirt, with turndown stiff collar, and black bow tie, or even an unstarched shirt with collar attached (white of course).
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It seemed to her for some reason that if her husband were suddenly to turn facing her, and to say, “Olga, I am unhappy,” she would cry or laugh, and she would be at ease.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores Would cast the gorge at this embalms and spices To th 'April day again.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Tall, lean, loosely and feebly put together, he had an ugly, sickly, witty, charming face, furnished, but by no means decorated, with a straggling moustache and whisker.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Her son by the first marriage, Alberic, was compelled to attend at the nuptial banquet; but his reluctant and ungraceful service was chastised with a blow by his new father.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The crime that made McGloin famous was the cowardly murder of an unarmed saloonkeeper who came upon the gang while it was sacking his bar-room at the dead of night.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

—Our music, which can and must change into everything, because [pg 329] like the demon of the sea, it has no character of its own: this music in former times devoted its attention to the Christian savant, and transposed his ideals into sounds: why cannot it likewise find those brighter, more cheerful, and universal sounds which correspond to the ideal thinker?—a music which could rock itself at ease in the vast floating vaults of the soul?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An unexpected sight: who could have looked for human being in such a place?
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

Marignac endeavoured, however, to overcome Stas's conclusions as to the incommensurability of the atomic weights by supposing that in his, as in the determinations of all other observers, there were unperceived errors which were quite independent of the mode of observation—for example, silver nitrate might be supposed to be an unstable substance which changes, under the heatings, evaporations, and other processes to which it is subjected in the reactions for the determination of the combining weight of silver.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Up and up she went, cheered by a welcome shaft of light.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

The first title he had proposed to give to his Discourse on Method was "The Project of a Universal Science which can elevate our Nature to its highest degree of Perfection."
— from The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry into Its Origin and Growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

It was stipulated that in case England should not furnish all the men agreed upon she would compensate by paying at the rate of $150 per annum for every cavalry soldier, and $100 for every foot soldier under the full number.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

When my father conspired, it was not for the emperor, it was against the Bourbons; for M. Noirtier possessed this peculiarity, he never projected any Utopian schemes which could never be realized, but strove for possibilities, and he applied to the realization of these possibilities the terrible theories of The Mountain,—theories that never shrank from any means that were deemed necessary to bring about the desired result.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

How it feeds 278 Local attachment of the 277 Patties (an entrée) 277 Potted 278 Salad 272 Sauce 464 Shell of the 272 Soup 195 To boil 270 To dress 276 Lumbago 2645 Luncheon cake 1765 Luncheons and suppers 2147-48 Lungs, respiration of 2453-6 Macaroni, as usually served with cheese course 1645-7 Manufacture of 135, 1301 Pudding, sweet 1301 Soup 135 Sweet dish of 1450 Macaroons 1744 Mace 371 Macedoine de fruits 1440 Mackerel, the 281 Baked 279 Boiled 280 Broiled 281 Fillets of 282 Garum 283 Pickled 283 To choose 281 Weight of the 279 Voracity of the 282 Maid-of-all-work, after breakfast 2344 dinner 2350-1 Bedrooms, attention to 2352 daily work in 2345 Before retiring to bed 2354 Breakfast, preparation for 2343 Cleaning hall
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

After a very few minutes the fire began to slacken, and some of it I noticed, with an unpleasant sensation, was coming my way.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore