The beautiful Lady Oldworld (who was Alice Town) was asked one day by a fellow countryman, what she called this person of title and that one, and she replied: "I'm not sure that I know!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

dita′stayeskĭ—“a barber,” literally “one who cuts things” (as with a scissors), from tsista′yû , “I cut,” (as with a scissors).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

These husbandmen till the ground, breed cattle, hew wood, and convey it to the towns either by land or water, as is most convenient.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Ordinary visitors remained on the outside of this partition, but lucky ones were by the saint’s invitation admitted through the partition doors into his half of the room.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before the battle of Shiloh, I had been cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of "crazy;" but that single battle had given me new life, and now I was in high feather; and I argued with him that, if he went away, events would go right along, and he would be left out; whereas, if he remained, some happy accident might restore him to favor and his true place.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Tiny would have been frozen in the cold air, but she crept under the bird's warm feathers, keeping her little head uncovered, so that she might admire the beautiful lands over which they passed.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Note 546 ( return ) [ Tacitus informs us, that the poison was prepared by Locusta, of whom we shall hear, NERO, c. xxxiii.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Last, twenty yeomen, two and two, In hosen black, and jerkins blue, With falcons broidered on each breast, Attended on their lord’s behest: Each, chosen for an archer good, Knew hunting-craft by lake or wood; Each one a six-foot bow could bend, And far a clothyard shaft could send; Each held a boar-spear tough and strong, And at their belts their quivers rung.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Before Lord Orville went, Sir Clement Willoughby called.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

At the third circuit two or three of the stags had their heads together and seemed to be looking our way and commenting.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

But must we not, we whose throat the enemy is seeking to cut, we whose defeat by hunger and by lack of war material nearly every one would witness complacently as an unavoidable fate, must we not defend ourselves from this dreadful danger, which still threatens us, with all our might and with all the means that the German spirit can invent and which the honor of the German people recognizes as legitimate weapons?
— from The Lusitania's Last Voyage Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915 by Lauriat, Charles Emelius, Jr.

Some, who on war or politics could talk very well, will be perpetually haranguing on works of genius and the belles letters; others who are capable of reasoning, and would make a figure in grave discourse, will yet constantly aim at humour and pleasantry, though with the worst grace imaginable.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

If after thirty years of constant ‘reform’ we are sunk so low that we neither can, nor will, use the treasures of the Bodleian Library ourselves, why in that case I say let us give the whole of it away to some country where scholars are yet to be found.
— from Further remarks on the policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

he cried; and then, while she turned a mute attentive face to him, he stood silent as before, like one who has lost his thought, and strives to recall what he was going to say.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

In summer the adults very closely resemble the common Gull, but it is a smaller bird, and the black legs, on which the hind toe is absent, form an unfailing characteristic.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

The gardens of Crystal Palace cover two hundred acres, and are beautifully laid out "with flowerbeds, shrubberies, fountains, cascades, and statuary."
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

When a mould has remained in the solution long enough to receive a complete coating of copper, it may be lifted out with impunity for examination.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The stars are on the moving stream, And fling, as its ripples gently flow, A burnished length of wavy beam In an eel-like, spiral line below; The winds are whist, and the owl is still, The bat in the shelvy rock is hid, And nought is heard on the lonely hill
— from The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake

Had this man by look or word professed other than friendship for me?
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous