But drink some of this;” and the count took a bottle from his pocket, containing a red liquid, of which he poured a few drops into the glass.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And next to being in a country of their own, there could be no better fate for them than to be together in a land of civil and religious liberty, of whose Constitution Christianity forms no part and where their collective votes would practically guarantee them against future persecution."
— from The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People by Edward Alsworth Ross

And that flock of disgruntled spirits who sat around waiting for an election that would never come and ran like old war-horses at the scent of gun-powder to group themselves, as soon as a row started and the bell began to ring for order, in two factions on either side of the president's chair, could never have imagined that the young deputy, on many a night, broke off his study with a temptation to throw the thick tomes of records against the wall, yielding finally, with thrills of intense voluptuousness, to the thought of what might have become of him had he gone out into life on his own in the trail of a pair of green eyes whose golden lights he thought he could still see glittering in front of him between the lines of clumsy parliamentary prose, tempting him as they had tempted him of yore!
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

When will the children be taught to ask all the cold and ragged little ones, whom they have seen during the day wistfully gazing at the displays in the shop-windows, to share the joys of Christmas eve?
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

However fair, they might be capricious and revengeful, like other women.
— from Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley

In the midst of the terraces a great platform was run out at the level of this long path, containing a rosery laid out with paths in a simple geometrical pattern.
— from Early Renaissance Architecture in England A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625 by J. Alfred (John Alfred) Gotch

When will children be taught to ask all the cold and ragged little ones whom they have seen during the day wistfully gazing at the shop-windows, to share the joys of Christmas-eve?
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

Seeing that previous to its introduction the number of bright reds, not being crimson, nor of a crimson cast, was limited to vermilions, pure scarlet, red chrome, and red lead, of which the first alone were permanent, there was room on the palette for a strictly durable and somewhat transparent pigment like cadmium red, with its many distinctive properties.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Not real lace ones, of course; she would have to do better even than a thousand before she could afford real lace ones, with everything else to match; but this, after all, was only a beginning.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

The devout Christian, who through the grace of the crucified and risen Lord "of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets did write," and who has "tasted the good word of God," will not long hesitate for an answer.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg