Nor are you driven by a coachman clothed in German livery, but by a man bearded and mittened.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He was scarcely twelve, of proud and lofty bearing, and clad completely in wrappings of various-colored scalloped cloths, which gave him the appearance of a somewhat extra-sized penwiper.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Manner and circumstances: rare in old Latin and Cicero: not in Caesar: bellum ambulandō cōnfēcērunt , Caelius in Fam.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Of an essentially contemplative disposition, he was led by a chance conversation in 1809 to reflect upon the ability of the white men to communicate thought by means of writing, with the result that he set about devising a similar system for his own people.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The son of Seneca the Elder, the famous rhetorician, was born at Corduba ( Cordova ), in Spain, and brought to Rome by his parents at an early age.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[56] The same was confirmed in the year 1382, John Northampton being mayor, by a common council in the Guildhall; by which it was ordained that all freemen of this city should, for debt, trespasses, accounts, and contempts, be imprisoned in Ludgate, and for treasons, felonies, and other criminal offences, committed to Newgate, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

LESSON XLIII, § 245 animal, animālis (-ium 1 ) , n., animal avis, avis (-ium) , f., bird (aviation) caedēs, caedīs (-ium) , f., slaughter calcar, calcāris (-ium), n., spur cīvis, cīvis (-ium) , m. and f., citizen (civic) cliēns, clientis (-ium) , m., retainer, dependent (client) fīnis, fīnis (-ium) , m., end, limit (final); plur., country, territory hostis, hostis (-ium) , m. and f., enemy in war (hostile).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"Were you by any chance coming in?"
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

Being a soldier clerk in India is very different from being a civilian clerk in England.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

From this wretched degradation he was in some measure rescued by a connection, culpable indeed, yet such as, if it were judged by the standard of morality established in the country where he lived, might be called virtuous.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It would have been a captious critic indeed that could have called her anything less than very pretty at that moment; with her little face flushed and intent, a mixture of child and woman in the expression of her eyes and about her soft, parted lips.
— from The Boy with Wings by Berta Ruck

His death might be brought about by a cold caught in going out bareheaded, there being, for the moment, no hat in the market of sufficient circumference to meet his enlarged requirement.
— from Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

She was rather uncommonly tall, and had a striking and expressive face, dark hair, dark eyes, which shone with an inward light as soon as she began to speak, and by and by a color came into her cheeks and made her look almost young.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Do birth, breeding and culture count in society to-day when weighed against the power of money?
— from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

In all but aggravated cases, commute it into a minor penalty, especially by sending culprits to the Venetian galleys, since this is an old usage in our family, and as these protect our seas from pirates.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

Reading farming books and calculating crops is not a likely road to perfection in poetry.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

He was one of the signers of the Non-Importation Resolutions (October 20, 1765), after the passage of the Stamp Act, and was among the most active, patriotic and respected Israelites of Philadelphia, being a conspicuous character in public affairs.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf