The charred and blackened stumps on the few acres that had been cleared during the preceding year were everything but picturesque; and I concluded, as I turned, disgusted, from the prospect before me, that there was very little beauty to be found in the backwoods.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The other, with an effort at a scornful smile, which could not, however, collect the nervous working of his mouth into any set expression, looked at the soldiers, and looked about at the marshes and at the sky, but certainly did not look at the speaker.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Verily, with a bad conscience doth he stalk over the roofs.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

to become corrupt, depraved, Ro. 3.12.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

un buen compañero de viaje.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

B12] for the body or a part of the body to be completely disabled.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But Cranfield did not immediately answer, for his eye had, been caught by an ornament in the shape of a heart which Faith wore as a brooch upon her bosom.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Didn’t you say his own share had been cut down?”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Right excellently has the poet set forth in the following lines the sympathy and accordance between the unreasoning and reason:— "Thus were her beauteous cheeks diffused with tears, Weeping her husband really present then.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The monument of the Birago family, which is placed above the last, though sculptured as late as 1455 by Cristoforo dei Luvoni, shows little artistic advance on the Trecento works.
— from The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes

On the contrary, with a modesty almost akin to dullness—having had no idea of his own influence over the maiden—he was disposed to regard the recent events—the death of Munro and the capture of Rivers—as they relieved her from a persecution which had been cruelly distressing, rather calculated to produce a degree of relief, to which she had not for a long time been accustomed; and which, though mingled up with events that prevented it from being considered matter for rejoicing, was yet not a matter for one in her situation very greatly to deplore.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

A quantity of branches and brushwood had been cut down, and lay scattered about.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

She was his cousin, but cousins did marry now and then, and since the marriage would consolidate family interests, he imagined their relations would approve.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

342 illustrates a good insect cage, and a box containing damp moss and covered with mosquito netting will make fairly comfortable quarters for salamanders ("lizards") and toads.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

Moore had previously been in business in Buffalo, at 225 Main Street, under his own name; an announcement in the 1854 Buffalo City Directory (the Commercial Advertiser ) describes his firm as successor both to C.C. Bristol and to Moore, Liebetrut & Co.
— from History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

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— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

“With submission, Sir Percy, but Chockey does nothing at all but cry out her eyes from morning till night, and went on her knees a-beseechin’ me to find Her Ladyship, which all I could coax out of her by my best endeavors at wheedlin’ the seck, Sir, was that she last saw Her Ladyship standin’—” “Where! where?” gasps Sir Percy, seizing Mr. Grigson by the arm with a grip of steel.
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews