Between beginning and ending the letter was just such a jolly, newsy epistle as Ken might have written to anyone; but for the sake of that beginning and ending Rilla slept with the letter under her pillow for weeks, sometimes waking in the night to slip her fingers under and just touch it, and looked with secret pity on other girls whose sweethearts could never have written them anything half so wonderful and exquisite.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The summit bore an enormous rock which, seen from a distance, appeared somewhat like a statue.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

How true the Semitic ideas running through the Bible, and especially represented in the legend of Paul in Malta, are to the barbarian nature is illustrated by an incident related in Mr. Brinton’s ‘Myths of the New World.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

First, without the church is graven in stone on the east end, John Brokeitwell, an especial re-edifier, or new builder thereof.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Cette anecdote rappelle celle du bonhomme qui, pour se venger de la société des chemins de fer, prit un billet aller et retour, en se jurant tout bas de ne pas revenir, tout simplement pour faire enrager «ces fourbes-là.» 105.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

But her haughty spirit condescended to the arts of dissimulation: she flattered the bishops and eunuchs, revived the filial tenderness of the prince, regained his confidence, and betrayed his credulity.
— 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

By this chapel of St. Stephen was sometime one other smaller chapel, called our Lady of the Pew, to the which lady great offerings were used to be made: amongst other things, I have read, that Richard II., after the overthrow of Wat Tyler and other his rebels, in the 4th of his reign, went to Westminster, and there giving thanks to God for his victory, made his offering in this chapel; but as divers have noted, namely, John Piggot, in the year 1252, on the 17th of February, by negligence of a scholar appointed by his schoolmaster to put forth the lights of this chapel, the image of our lady, richly decked with jewels, precious stones, pearls, and rings, more than any jeweller could judge the price for, so saith mine author, was, with all this apparel, ornaments, and chapel itself, burnt; but since again re-edified by Anthonie, Earl Rivers, Lord Scales, and of the Isle of Wight, uncle and governor to the Prince of Wales, that should have been King Edward V., etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Uneducated candidates not forbidden by positive enactment " " their admission opposed to the spirit of the institution V. Virtual Past Masters, who they are Visit, right of " only affiliated Mason entitled to it " must be preceded by an examination " requires a certificate to insure it Visitors, examination of, described " must take the Tiler's obligation Voting must always be by a show of hands Voting in trials, obligatory on all members present Voucher must be a competent Mason Vouching for a visitor W. Wardens, Grand.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Dermacentor Koch. j. Adults with four longitudinal rows of large denticles on each half of hypostome; stigmal plate nearly circular, without dorso-lateral prolongation, goblets very large, attaining 43µ to 115µ in diameter; not over 40 per plate, each plate surrounded by an elevated row of regularly arranged supporting cells; white rust wanting; base of capitulum distinctly broader than long, its postero-lateral angles prolonged slightly, if at all; coxæ T with short spurs; trochanter I with small dorso-terminal blade.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

—Big and evenly rosy.
— from The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated With Stories of Orchid-Collecting by Frederick Boyle

For details see Churchman, "Byron and Espronceda," Revue Hispanique , Vol.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

[Pg 406] Round the sun these objects would revolve for ages, but at each revolution—and here is the important point—they would traverse the point from which they were originally launched.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

In 1885, when Bulgaria and 'Eastern Rumelia' successfully coalesced and Bulgaria thereby received a considerable increase of territory and power, the Serbs, prompted by jealousy, began to grow restless, and King Milan, at the instigation of Austria, foolishly declared war on Prince Alexander of Battenberg.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

Taking a train of 100 tons, with engine and tender weighing 75 tons, or 175 tons gross, the first question to determine will be the train resistance, and with reference to this we much want careful experiments on the subject, like those which Sir Daniel Gooch made in 1848, on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, which are even now the standard authority; the general use of oil axle-boxes and long bogie coaches, irrespective of other improvements, would render this course desirable.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

He says he never hurt anyone, and that, he may truly say as his first wish to all was good and benevolent, and ever ready to forgive.” THE AMAZING ELOPEMENT O N a certain evening in March, 1772, the fashionable folk of Bath were as earnestly on pleasure bent as they were wont to be at this season—and every other.
— from A Georgian Pageant by Frank Frankfort Moore

“Call it what you like,” said Beatrix, “but I will not spoil his life, or hang like a millstone round his neck, to become an eternal regret to him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

In this situation I could only hope that, as Beauparlant had my blanket and everything requisite to light a fire, he might have encamped at a little distance from us.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin