Simon also erected a very large monument for his father and his brethren, of white and polished stone, and raised it a great height, and so as to be seen a long way off, and made cloisters about it, and set up pillars, which were of one stone apiece; a work it was wonderful to see.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

A plurality of terms is not the necessary condition of intelligence; but objects which are pure, simple, unanalyzable, may be directly known by an intellect.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

When they got to the top of the cutting, they leaned over the fence and looked down to where the railway lines lay at the bottom of what, as Phyllis said, was exactly like a mountain gorge.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The low crotch of the vest revealed a stiff shirt bosom of white and pink stripes.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

If now I can get a basin of water, and pour some of the cold liquid down my throat, I shall be soon all to rights again.
— from Ben Burton: Born and Bred at Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

—In the ready-made first-aid packets will be found a triangular bandage, on which are printed sketches of the manner in which the bandage is applied.
— from The Mary Frances First Aid Book With Ready Reference List of Ordinary Accidents and Illnesses, and Approved Home Remedies by Jane Eayre Fryer

These, by interfering with evaporation of the secretions, prevent proper regulations of the temperature of the scalp, and likewise lead to the retention of a certain amount of excrementitious matter, both of which are prolific sources of rapid thinning and loss of hair in women.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various

Being out with a party shortly afterwards, he grew silent and gloomy, and lagged behind the rest as if he wished to leave them.
— from The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Washington Irving

The ambassador hurried away without saying a word, and as for the assistant chief-of-staff, seeing that he was caught in the act and knowing the fate which awaited him, he went to his house and blew his brains out with a pistol shot.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

At all events such was the impression given to my excited fancy at the time, and, filled with the sense of freedom which this momentary escape from the house and its influences had caused, I hastened to enjoy the beauties of walk and parterre , stopping only when some fairer blossom than ordinary lured me from my path to inspect its loveliness or inhale its perfume.
— from The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green

The Hill School eleven is particularly strong behind the line, where Kiefer, Schuyler, and Monypeny make a trio of backs of which any preparatory school might well be proud.
— from Harper's Round Table, November 19, 1895 by Various