Their geometrical plan represented the typographical sign “&,” which signifies “et cetera” abridged, but by isolating the upper mouth of the sign, through which the south and west winds blew so strongly, they could succeed in making the lower part of use.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

All that loving hands could do she had had from husband, children and brothers, but she had longed for the presence of her sister and it filled her with joy and peace.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Again at midnight the two dogs got down into the court and began barking up at the sky.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

[19] It is possible, of course, to open the tragedy with the conflict already begun, but Shakespeare never does so.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

One day he caught a beautiful big fish and the man in the hotel cooked it for their dinner.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

When Sribatsa heard how his wife had been carried away by boatmen, he became mad with grief.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Pursuing their course along Castle Street for about a quarter of a mile, Gerard and Stephen turned down a street which intersected it, and so on, through a variety of ways and winding lanes, till they arrived at an open portion of the town, a district where streets and squares and even rows, disappeared, and where the tall chimneys and bulky barrack-looking buildings that rose in all directions, clustering yet isolated, announced that they were in the principal scene of the industry of Mowbray.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As to the Hesiodic images themselves, the leading remark is, that they catch at beauty by ornament, and at sublimity by exaggeration; and upon the untenable supposition of the genuineness of this poem, there is this curious peculiarity, that, in the description of scenes of rustic peace, the superiority of Homer is decisive—while in those of war and tumult it may be thought, perhaps, that the Hesiodic poet has more than once the advantage."
— from The Iliad by Homer

All the expenses of the first, and seventh or ninth day ceremonies, are borne by the people of the house, who may be those of the family of the girl’s father or husband.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

[Enter CARDINAL and BOSOLA] BOSOLA.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

And yet all this time, while this public school code was being driven into him by precept and example, by coercion and by blows, all this while, every morning at prayers and every Sunday thrice, he heard the other code taught in the school chapel.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

") [ At the end of chorus, a Big Bell booms twelve times; the Circle being finished, Caspar within it, draws his hanger round the lanterns, and at the twelfth stroke strikes it into the turnip-skull.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various

Madame Nordica took unto herself Madame Scalchi, the contralto, and Barron Berthald, a young tenor, who in a night achieved fame, and toured the country giving concerts, but with little success.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

and blue morning glories for your 'climber,' and blue bachelors' buttons and Canterbury bells, and mourning bride, and pretty blue lobelia for low growing plants and blue lupine for a taller growth.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

In more modern times this custom of celebrating a birth by a convivial gathering is commonly spoken of in northern England as: the head-washing, or: weshin’ t’bairn’s head, and is not so much a feast as a free drinking.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

Then she would remember snatches of Lorenzo’s Canzone a Ballo , ‘ Ben venga Maggio ,’ written in the local dialect of the time, and improvise for them a suitable strain.
— from Lamia's Winter-Quarters by Alfred Austin