But come, Madam; suppose, to-morrow morning, he was to send for you to the great council chamber, and there you should find at his elbow a lovely young Prince, with large black eyes, a smooth white forehead, and manly curling locks like jet; in short, Madam, a young hero resembling the picture of the good Alfonso in the gallery, which you sit and gaze at for hours together—” “Do not speak lightly of that picture,” interrupted Matilda sighing; “I know the adoration with which I look at that picture is uncommon—but I am not in love with a coloured panel.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Then the doctor had said that she would not bear crossing much; she ought to have her own way; and it was nothing less than murder in her eyes for any one to presume to stand up and contradict her.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The British, colonist must see something which will Page 420 distinguish him from the colonists of other nations.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

DON JUAN: Bien, Ciutti; mientras Sevilla Good Ciutti; while Seville tranquila en sueño reposa reposes in tranquil sleep creyéndome encarcelado, believing me imprisoned otros dos nombres añado another two names will be added a mi lista numerosa.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Anon there rose a rumour in the city that a cripple had been healed by certain marvellous strange knights.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

'I shall be governed by circumstances, madam,' said the Count, 'this barbarous spot was inhabited by my ancestors.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Mince Pie, (Old Dutch): Seven bowls chopped tart apples, three bowls chopped meat, seven pounds of sugar, one gallon cider (not sweet), seven nutmegs, four tablespoonsful cinnamon, two tablespoonsful cloves, two pounds of raisins, one pound of currants, one pound of citron, salt and pepper."
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton

He had also been clothed more suitably, after having got rid of the rag which covered him.
— from Abandoned by Jules Verne

SEE Cannon, Walter B. CANNON, MARIAN. San Bao and his adventures in Peking.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“Don’t do that, Blenheim!” cried Mrs Shackle.
— from Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn

[Footnote: Carbonic add being considerably more soluble than other gases possible under the circumstances.—ED.]
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

The boys can make some in a minute.”
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon