Paul looked up blankly as the keeper unlocked the cell, admitted Babbitt, and left them together.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Then, upon this level surface construct a block as large as is required, and when it is finished, leave it for not less than two months to dry.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

You must have a "sunset nature" to appreciate a sunset, and you must be sanctified wholly to see in Christ a beauty and loveliness which no Murillo and no Raphael and no Del Sarto have yet put on canvas.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Except ye be converted and become as little 25 children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If you are a stranger in the city, and bring a letter of introduction to your hostess, send this letter up stairs with your card, that she may read it, and know how to welcome you when she comes down stairs.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

During ten minutes he alone kept the crowd at bay; at last Comminges appeared, pushing Broussel before him.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a lie &c. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As in Santa Croce, it is cut across by a line of chapels, thus giving the whole a T shape, and what represents the apse is merely a deeper and taller recess behind the high altar.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

After him appeared Giuseppe Zola, born, according to Crespi, at Brescia, a landscape painter, of a taste devoted to no single master, but formed upon many.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

Such titles show that he was thinking in bibliographical terms, for Andreas's book and the Augsburg catalogue are bibliographies and Leclerc's journal was a review of current publications.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

Mrs. Baird, dressed in a rough tweed walking suit, carried a book, and looked, save for her gray hair, as young as either of the Seniors.
— from Polly's First Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill

On the stage now all complexions are brilliant, and light tresses are pronounced to be more admirable than dark.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

As he rose again to his feet, another burst above him, and a ragged fragment of the hot iron tore down along his very side, laying open his clothing, and bruising and lacerating his arm.
— from The Captured Scout of the Army of the James A Sketch of the Life of Sergeant Henry H. Manning, of the Twenty-fourth Mass. Regiment by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

This question has been carefully and conclusively answered by a learned scientific writer, who shows that polygamic marriage never exists in an advanced state, as instanced by the history of Judaism and Mohammedanism; that a strict form of monogamic marriage is essential to political greatness and true progress in civilization.
— from The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. by P. Hampson

Two days afterwards, as Jumper was crossing a brook, a lily-white duck, who had been concealed by the rushes, flew at him with open beak and gobbled him up.
— from The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition by Unknown