A strange little laugh flew from her lips; she leaned back against the buttoned leather cushions and shut her eyes, her lips trembling [Pg 2] with laughter.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

] where I never was before; and find it a very silly place, worse than Spring-garden, and but little company, and those a rascally, whoring, roguing sort of people, only a wilderness here, that is somewhat pretty, but rude.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A woman during her monthly courses, a woman who has been lately confined, and a fat woman should not be made to act the part of a man."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Howsoever that may be, you are grievously to be pitied; in which opinion I am not only joined by Mrs. Collins, but likewise by Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter!"
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Asher ben Levi, called Abed al Masih, lived in the fourth century in Sinjar Mesopotamia.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

DON GONZALO: Lo creo; mas las razones I believe it, but lets choose abreviemos; entregadme to end this speech: hand over to me a esa dueña, y perdonadme the Duenna, and indeed forgive me mis mundanas opiniones.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The canal extends to the foot of the mountain, and there, of course, it stops; the passengers being conveyed across it by land carriage, and taken on afterwards by another canal boat, the counterpart of the first, which awaits them on the other side.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He spent myriads of drachmas on his belly, living chiefly at Minturnæ, a city of Campania, eating very expensive crawfish, which are found in that place superior in size to those of Smyrna, or even to the crabs of Alexandria.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Baron Lejeune, Constant, and Méneval have variants of the same story.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Polygamy .--This practice appears to be less common among the Chippewas than the more westerly tribes.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Alice had deemed herself cleverer than she was, by long chalks, and it was not her that woke us.
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But broadly speaking, figures of leaf and flower were more frequently adopted than in preceding periods and designs became less conventionalised and more artistic.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

Not only in governments and political bodies but in every corporation, [Pg 38] club, Dorcas society, base-ball league, church, and grocery store, the superficial observer sees what appears to be harmony and even brotherly unity; it is only the result of preliminary pushing matches by which the equilibrium of offensive and defensive qualities has been ascertained.
— from The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

It has long been known that the eggs of certain bees, lice, crayfishes, and other animals and also plants, are capable of development without fertilisation at all.
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch

The Committee next set about to obtain the services of gentlemen to act as honorary agents, of whom there are now upwards of 1,000; and whose duties are to board, lodge, clothe, and forward to their homes all shipwrecked persons.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

A little farther on we came upon the barracks, a huge, solid, rectangular structure, built by Shalil Pasha in the Moorish style of the Turkish Renaissance, its great portal flanked by light columns and surmounted by the crescent and golden star of Muhammad, and having balconies and small windows ornamented with carving and arabesques.
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

To cull a few instances, ours was that Ignatius, who in church matters put no one not even the Emperor, on a level with the Bishop; who committed to writing, that they might not be lost, certain Apostolic traditions of which he himself had been witness.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

Possibly they may always have lived in London, taking London as a mere geographical expression, but London, considered as a spiritual (or unspiritual) entity, has at one time or other in their lives dawned upon them as a shining and desirable thing, and they have said to themselves, gazing upwards, ‘I want; I want.’
— from The Freaks of Mayfair by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

61 “Oh, but Lois can act splendidly, if she only will ,” said one of the Sophomore by-standers.
— from Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed