Emily, overcome by these recollections, left the plane-tree, and, as she leaned pensively on the wall of the terrace, she observed a group of peasants dancing gaily on the banks of the Garonne, which spread in broad expanse below, and reflected the evening light.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

By a ruse they escaped, leaving the sheriff for dead; were recaptured and escaped again.
— from Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots by Caroline Bancroft

The children were rosy, fresh from their baths, and ready to eat like breakfast-loving English.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

He used great facility in building and rebuilding the early locomotives of the R. W. & O.—in keeping them in service, seemingly forever and a day.
— from The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad by Edward Hungerford

But the Theory of Development in its turn helps the mind to believe and realize this enormous lapse of time, with its seemingly never-ending march and flow, rank upon rank, wave upon wave, by finding work and employment for all its almost measureless duration.
— from Essays on Darwinism by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

Now, madam, you have steeped your brains, and ransacked the English language to find refined terms for your panegyric on the Duke, Duchess, and family of Sutherland.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

What has been remarked concerning the content of chivalry is to be repeated for all the other contents which have been proposed in turn, each one or all of them together as the true and proper leading motive; and of these (leaving out the least likely, because we are not here concerned with collecting curious trifles of Ariostesque criticism, but are resuming the essential lines of this criticism with the intention of cutting into it more deeply and with greater certainty), the next thing to mention, immediately after chivalrous ideality or anti-ideality, is the philosophy of life, the wisdom, which Ariosto is supposed to have [Pg 16] administered and counselled.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

Translations of Western literature issued by the Christian Literature Society are read with avidity by a race that esteems literature highly, no matter with what subject it deals, { 169} and who has no worse an epithet for one of its emperors than "book-burner.
— from Changing China by Cecil, Florence Mary (Bootle-Wilbraham), Lady

To distribute the weight equally he placed the packages of ammunition, tobacco, corn and pork, a birch-bark basket of maple sugar he had provided, the blankets, guns, kettle and other things on poles resting on the bottom and running the entire length of the boat.
— from The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

He even, by adroit reference to English life and habits, in contradistinction to Irish, seemed to infer that his experiences were more at home there; and whatever might have been Layton's own secret promptings, there was nothing in the clergyman's manner to provoke the slightest constraint or awkwardness.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever