It impresses us as a giant with a mind comprehensive and discriminating enough to care for the great and small concerns of all the town.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Ay!” said Hawkeye, considering the deer-skin thong and apron, with a cold and discouraging eye; “the thing might do its work among arrows, or even knives; but these Mengwe have been furnished by the Frenchers with a good grooved barrel a man.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

[Pg 379] Chapter XXV FACTORY PREPARATION OF ROASTED COFFEE Coffee roasting as a business—Wholesale coffee-roasting machinery—Separating, milling, and mixing or blending green coffee, and roasting by coal, coke, gas, and electricity—Facts about coffee roasting—Cost of roasting—Green-coffee shrinkage table—"Dry" and "wet" roasts—On roasting coffee efficiently—A typical coal roaster—Cooling and stoning—Finishing or glazing—Blending roasted coffees—Blends for restaurants—Grinding and packaging—Coffee additions and fillers—Treated coffees, and dry extracts T he coffee bean is not ready for beverage purposes until it has been properly "manufactured", that is, roasted, or "cooked".
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She was clear and distinct enough; the porter at the rail-road had seen a scuffle; or when he found it was likely to bring him in as a witness, then it might not have been a scuffle, only a little larking, and Leonards might have jumped off the platform himself;—he would not stick firm to anything.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It was now paved with marble, and, notwithstanding the fire which had been kindled about an hour, struck me with such a chill sensation, that when I entered it the teeth chattered in my jaws—In short, every thing was cold, comfortless, and disgusting, except the looks of my friend Baynard, which declared the warmth of his affection and humanity.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

for there is a sad poverty of variety in species, the trees being chiefly of one monotonous family—redwood, pine, spruce, fir—and so, at a near view there is a wearisome sameness of attitude in their rigid arms, stretched down ward and outward in one continued and reiterated appeal to all men to “Sh!—don’t say a word!—you might disturb somebody!” Close at hand, too, there is a reliefless and relentless smell of pitch and turpentine; there is a ceaseless melancholy in their sighing and complaining foliage; one walks over a soundless carpet of beaten yellow bark and dead spines of the foliage till he feels like a wandering spirit bereft of a footfall; he tires of the endless tufts of needles and yearns for substantial, shapely leaves; he looks for moss and grass to loll upon, and finds none, for where there is no bark there is naked clay and dirt, enemies to pensive musing and clean apparel.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Thus, the interests of society require, that contracts be fulfilled; and there is not a more material article either of natural or civil justice: But the omission of a trifling circumstance will often, by law, invalidate a contract, in foro humano, but not in foro conscientiae, as divines express themselves.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The jazz'll go to his head, and he'll stand clapping and demanding encores till his hands blister.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Sometimes five Imprimaturs are seen together dialogue-wise in the piazza of one title-page, complimenting and ducking each to other with their shaven reverences, whether the author, who stands by in perplexity at the foot of his epistle, shall to the press or to the sponge.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

The true proportion is one-third, and this to apply to all the circulation and deposits, except those which are special.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

She suffered and analyzed her feelings as Cuvier and Dupuytren explained to friends the fatal advance of their disease and the progress that death was making in their bodies.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

* * * “The passenger boats, once so common in the canals, are fast disappearing; like the diligences, they have been replaced by the system of tram-cars which now cross the country, but here and there this old-fashioned means of communication between the towns and villages still survives, and it is certainly a delightful experience to make a journey on market day in one of these arks.
— from The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 May 1, 1914 by Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf

All proceeds, changes and dies, except the sense of misery in my bursting heart.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But Fani cried out with delight, and he seized Mrs. Stanhope's hand and looked at her so beseechingly, and he promised to work as hard as he could, and do everything to please her if he might only go.
— from Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri

A clever and daring enterprise to capture Aubigny-au-Bac was then undertaken; in the words of Gen. Hull, “initiated and carried out entirely under the orders of the Brigadier-General commanding the 169th Infantry Brigade, who deserves great credit for the successful exploit.”
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward

"Don't you know about caterpillars, aunty dear?" exclaimed the boy, holding fast to his box.
— from Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri

THE BEAR AT BAY One by one the tired hunters and dogs struggled into camp all disappointed, except the dogs, which could not tell us what had befallen them since morning.
— from Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington

In the convulsions which have in recent times broken up this so long quiet and stable portion of the earth's crust (and which have resulted in depositing in thousands of cracks and cavities the ores we now mine), portions of the old table-land were in places set up at high angles forming mountain chains, and doubtless extending to the zone of fusion below.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various