The first regular rehearsal of the three first acts was certainly to take place in the evening: Mrs. Grant and the Crawfords were engaged to return for that purpose as soon as they could after dinner; and every one concerned was looking forward with eagerness.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

These stones are said to be rarely found (1 in 2000 or more) in the perisperm [ 196 ] of the cocoa-nut, and when found are kept by the natives as a charm against disease and evil spirits.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring an engineer as Cyrus Harding knew perfectly well how to manage a balloon.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance; And every one his love-feat will advance Unto his several mistress; which they'll know By favours several which they did bestow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He shut off the current and did an energetic turn at the brake, but not in time to avoid an unnaturally quick turn.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Under this state of things the ethical system of the sage of China suffered a change, as does almost everything that is imported into Japan and borrowed by the islanders, but {111} whether for the better or for the worse we shall not inquire too carefully.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

[1111] We have now seen that scorn, disdain, contempt, and disgust are expressed in many different ways, by movements of the features, and by various gestures; and that these are the same throughout the world.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Here was also Mr. Pierce and Mr. Floyd, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Prizes, and Captain Cooke, to dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes, and everything poor.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I don’t like you,’ I continued, as deliberately and emphatically as I could, to give the greater efficacy to my words; ‘and if I were divorced from my husband, or if he were dead, I would not marry you.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The idea of it has driven some to convulsions and derangement; and every one of the least delicacy feels deeply humiliated at the exposure.
— from Hints to Husbands: A Revelation of the Man-Midwife's Mysteries by George Morant

In the wide handsome hall everything was in order, and the rooms opening from them were cool, and dark, and elegant.
— from The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14 by Various

At that the joy of the king’s daughter grew so great that her own face became comely and delightful, and every trace of ugliness and coarseness vanished.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann

But it contained also some very valuable provisions as to the condition of cowhouses and dairies, and early in 1879 the Privy Council issued an Order providing for the registration of all persons carrying on the trade of cowkeepers and purveyors of milk, for regulating the lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage, and water supply of dairies and cowsheds, for securing the cleanliness of milk stores, milk shops, and milk vessels, and for protecting milk against infection and contamination.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

The effects noted were not confined to the officers and ship’s company, for almost all the stock died from the fumes—mice, cats, a dog, and even a canary bird shared the same fate, though the food of the latter was kept in a bottle closely corked up.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

The resources of China are as great, the capacities of her people as vigorous, and the elements of her ancient civilization as durable as ever: once let the incubus of Manchoo maladministration be removed, that vast and intelligent people will rapidly establish a native Government which will inaugurate an era of progression and improvement.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

says the old man; and there was a whirl of white cloth and dishes and everything else, and then the tablecloth spread itself out on the table as clean as ever you could wish.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome

It was now as comfortable a dwelling as ever.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

But still she demurred, being a very sane, intelligent girl, with an imagination which produced no more alluring mental picture than a cold and draughty drive, a colder and draughtier and even more depressing inspection of a ruined factory, and such small matters as a lost lunch.
— from Bones in London by Edgar Wallace