How did I wonder at the panels on either side of the pulpit, in each of which was carved and painted a flaming red tulip, bolt upright, with its leaves projecting out at right angles!
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Now let’s go away and leave the incense to do its healing work, and to-morrow we’ll come and put a fresh rose-bed and burn new incense.’
— from The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs by E. (Edith) Nesbit

To these propositions he received a very discouraging answer from his brother's minister, containing a positive and final refusal of any increase of allowance, obtaining only the Nabob's permission to retire into the Company's provinces.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The democrats moreover, who were probably somewhat uneasy at their alliance with that too powerful general, were not displeased to see a counterpoise and perhaps a future rival associated with him in the person of Marcus Crassus.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

To my mind the reason is obvious, since the genuine superphysical manifestations cannot be summoned at will by any medium, the latter, rather than allow his audience to go away unsatisfied, invariably makes use of conditions, under cover of which—failing the genuine phenomenon—he can always produce a fraudulent representation.
— from Ghostly Phenomena by Elliott O'Donnell

The horse was small but beautiful, a sorrel with long mane and tail; had he been hoodwinked he might perhaps have been mistaken for a Cordovese jaca ; he was broad-chested, and rotund in his hind quarters, and possessed much of the plumpness and sleekness which distinguish that breed, but looking in his eyes you would have been undeceived in a moment; a wild savage fire darted from the restless orbs, and so far from exhibiting the docility of the other noble and loyal animal, he occasionally plunged desperately, p. 369 and could scarcely be restrained by a strong curb and powerful arm from resuming his former head-long course.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Colour is a feature in Gift I, in beadwork, [220] in the tablets, in paper folding, cutting and plaiting, and besides these there are crayons and paints, and frequent reference is made to the child’s pleasure in the colour of flowers.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

Cattle and horses are also used to draw heavy carts and ploughs, and for riding long distances.
— from People of Africa by Edith A. How

This proposition, to which any officer fit to wear a sword would have cheerfully accepted, Proctor at first rejected, and yielded at last only because no other terms would be listened to.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley