They are saddling the horses; Caravan looks in great condition; and a scornful smile seems to play upon the handsome features of Pavis, as in the becoming colours of his employer, he gracefully gallops his horse before his admiring supporters.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

= craf- cræft m. physical strength, might, courage , A, AO, Sol : science, skill, art, ability, talent, virtue, excellence ,
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Have you," she continued, after a short silence, "ever seen Mr. Willoughby since you left him at Barton?" "Yes," he replied gravely, "once I have.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Surely such a phrase conveys approbation and sanction sufficient for both Juliette Drouet and her humble biographer.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Go forth, for thou shalt see what I have seen, And break through all, till one will crown thee king Far in the spiritual city:" and as she spake She sent the deathless passion in her eyes Through him, and made him hers, and laid her mind On him, and he believed in her belief.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She knew that it would be far from behaving like a respectable child at a select seminary to say that it had never occurred to you that you COULD love your father, that you would do anything desperate to avoid being left alone in his society for ten minutes.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Is it possible,” said he, “that where your liberty is at stake you can allow any such scruple to deter you from obtaining it?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character, and as she stood before the canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before; she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I have laid some stress upon this [36] distinction between the conditions of production and those of sale, which perhaps the prohibitionists may consider as paradoxical, because it leads me on to what they will consider as a still stranger paradox.
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

But he comes again, and, so sure as thou shalt sit on the knees of Osiris, so surely shall he sit upon thy throne, Pharaoh.
— from The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The objection has been raised that rectangular objects cannot be placed in a circle without a waste of space, but this does not apply to a dairy barn, as the storage of hay and grain depends upon cubical content, alone, and silos should always be circular, no matter where built.
— from Economy of the Round Dairy Barn by Wilber J. (Wilber John) Fraser

He inclined his ear, [Pg 202] attracted by the recurrent name of Logie which ran through the disconnected babblings, rising again and again like some half-drowned object carried along a swift stream.
— from Flemington by Violet Jacob

Not that I am an advocate for slow hunting:—for the enjoyment of sport, there [30] must be a dash, spirit, and fire; and in creeping along at snail’s speed there can be neither one nor the other.
— from The Life of a Foxhound by John Mills

“The day after they were seen leaving ‘Tin Pot,’ they called at a small settler’s place and took his twa best horses.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood

Still keeping the shadowed side of the battlements, he proceeded cautiously along, and so still was his motion that he passed undiscovered, even by the sentinels who guarded this quarter of the fortress.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter