Lest anybody should feel a curiosity to know how Kit was clad, it may be briefly remarked that he wore no livery, but was dressed in a coat of pepper-and-salt with waistcoat of canary colour, and nether garments of iron-grey; besides these glories, he shone in the lustre of a new pair of boots and an extremely stiff and shiny hat, which on being struck anywhere with the knuckles, sounded like a drum.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.
— 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.

In 1916, Jules Le Page, Darlington, Ind., was granted two United States patents on cutting rolls to cut and not grind or crush corn, wheat, or coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We staid at this great convent all night, guests of the hospitable priests.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

He did defend to me Sir W. Coventry as not guilty of the dividing of the fleete the last year, and blesses God, as I do, for my Lord Sandwich’s absence, and tells me how the King did lately observe to him how they have been particularly punished that were enemies to my Lord Sandwich.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Huron chief, therefore, stepped eagerly out a little from the throng, to a spot whence he might catch a nearer glimpse of the features of the man, whose decision was likely to produce so deep an influence on his own fortunes.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

They even represented to the diocesan authorities that such confessions attained no good object, but actually to a large extent led to sin and temptation.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is probably largely the result of training and tradition, and great changes are now going on in the direction of women finding occupations for themselves.
— from Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear by Arthur Christopher Benson

Upon this common and neutral ground Orange-man and Ribbon-man, Tory, and Nationalist, were perforce brought into harmonious contact; and "The Boyne Water" lost half its virus as a political psalm when it was embalmed side by side with the "Wild Geese" or "Willy Reilly."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

I will not scruple to attribute this to Malice, Ignorance, and Inability; and I am confident I can convince all Noblemen, Gentlemen, or others who will honour me with their Commands, that every design in the book can be improved, both as to Beauty and Enrichment, in the execution of it, by
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

The weather was delightful, and the grapes, though not yet ripe, were hanging in heavy bunches from the vines, giving promise of much wealth to come; the hay season had commenced, and numerous groups of happy-looking peasants were busy in every field; in short, it was a march upon which I shall never look back without pleasure.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

An Aladdin country; a new growth; one of the most amazing and picturesque bits in the history of our amazing country.
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber

Expressed in English by the auxiliary verb have , followed by the participle passive in the accusative case and neuter gender of the singular number .
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The Ant Thrushes, as originally defined by us, constitute a natural group of Birds peculiar to, and very abundant in, the tropical regions of the New World.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

“I don’t care about newspapers, generally, of course,” Sylvia went on, with her little air of finality, “but I like him to read them, because I can knit all the time, and count the stitches.
— from Donna Teresa by Frances Mary Peard

Goin' round and round in a circle, and never getting out.
— from Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland