[Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] SERIZY (Comtesse de), wife of the preceding, born Leontine de Ronquerolles about 1784, sister of the Marquis du Ronquerolles; married, as her first husband, General Gaubert, one of the most illustrious soldiers of the Republic; married a second time, when quite young, but could never entertain any feeling stronger than respect for M. de Serizy, her second husband, by whom, however, she had a son, an officer, who was killed during the reign of Louis Philippe.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

we continued our rout untill late in the evening when I came too and encamped on the South side about 10 miles below little dry river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" Monarchical institutions have thrown an odium upon despotism; let us beware lest democratic republics should restore oppression, and should render it less odious and less degrading in the eyes of the many, by making it still more onerous to the few.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Sweet Sunday afternoons beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my actual life, replacing them by a career of strange adventures and ambitions in a land watered by living streams, you still recall those adventures and ambitions to my mind when I think of you, and you embody and preserve them by virtue of having little by little drawn round and enclosed them (while I went on with my book and the heat of the day declined) in the gradual crystallisation, slowly altering in form and dappled with a pattern of chestnut-leaves, of your silent, sonorous, fragrant, limpid hours.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The blue-gray bandy legged dog ran merrily along the side of the road, sometimes in proof of its agility and self-satisfaction lifting one hind leg and hopping along on three, and then again going on all four and rushing to bark at the crows that sat on the carrion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Three princes, electors in Germany, bishops; besides Magdeburg, Spire, Saltsburg, Breme, Bamberg, &c. In France, as Bodine lib. de repub. gives us to understand, their revenues are 12,300,000 livres; and of twelve parts of the revenues in France, the church possesseth seven.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two principles, of as universal truth and applicability as any general propositions which can be laid down respecting human affairs.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

[223] In 1849 Baron Lionel de Rothschild was excluded from the Commons because of his failure to swear on "the true faith of a Christian."
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

Davy goes on further to say: "No general principles can be laid down respecting the comparative merits of the different systems of cultivation and the various systems of crops adopted in different districts, unless the chemical nature of the soil, and the physical circumstances to which it is exposed, are fully known."
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

Oh," Miss Berry looked dazed, relinquished the receiver, and moved like a somnambulist out of the cabinet.
— from Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City by Clara Louise Burnham

He had scarcely departed before Lord Downy rang his bell with violence, and a servant entered.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

All the features and tokens of Marygold were there; even the beloved little dimple remained in her golden chin.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne