You cannot mark cloth, silk stuffs or plush by folding them in the above way, cloth and some kinds of silken textures will not take a bend and others that will would be spoiled by it.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

When you are gone away I seem such a coldhearted—" As she knew his sentiment towards her Jude saw that they were getting upon dangerous ground.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

In this fresh joy, 'tis no small part, that shee, Shee, in whose goodnesse, he that names degree, Doth injure her; ('Tis losse to be cal'd best, 500 There where the stuffe is not such as the rest) Shee, who left such a bodie, as even shee Only in Heaven could learne, how it can bee Made better; for shee rather was two soules, [page 266] Or like to full on both sides written Rols, 505 Where eyes might reade upon the outward skin, As strong Records for God, as mindes within; Shee, who by making full perfection grow, Peeces a Circle, and still keepes it so, Long'd for, and longing for it, to heaven is gone, 510 Where shee receives, and gives addition.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Pickpockets who attend the avenues to public places to steal pocket-books, watches, &c. a superior kind of pickpockets.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Up, and my pill working a little I staid within most of the morning, and by and by the barber came and Sarah Kite my cozen, poor woman, came to see me and borrow 40s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Enter, at a distance, KING EDWARD, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and soldiers KING EDWARD.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Campe , adj. See Kempe .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

On whom could the sweet soft voice, the light step, the delicate hand, the quiet, cheerful, noiseless discharge of those thousand little offices of kindness and relief which we feel so deeply when we are ill, and forget so lightly when we are well—on whom could they make so deep an impression as on a young heart stored with every pure and true affection that women cherish; almost a stranger to the endearments and devotion of its own sex, save as it learnt them from itself; and rendered, by calamity and suffering, keenly susceptible of the sympathy so long unknown and so long sought in vain?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For the yellow and blue on either hand, if they are equal in quantity they draw the intermediate green equally towards themselves in Composition, and so keep it as it were in Æquilibrion, that it verge not more to the yellow on the one hand, and to the blue on the other, but by their mix'd Actions remain still a middle Colour.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Who follows courts, must oft with care conceal, And scarcely know what sight and ears reveal.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 01 by Jean de La Fontaine

But when she had brought me into the cot again, she kissed me and clipped me, weeping sorely the while; wherefore I wept, though I knew not why.
— from Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris

You see, if a woman feels that she must have five kinds of cake, and six kinds of preserves, and even ice-cream and jellies in a region where no confectioner comes in to abbreviate her labors, she will sit with closed doors, and do nothing towards the general exchange of life, because she cannot do as much as Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Parsons.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

A crimson spot burned on each cheek, a spark kindled in the soft, tender eyes.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Many shore towns owned whaleboats and gear, each with its trained crew, and some kept a regular lookout, day by day, whose duty it was promptly to announce the appearance of any whale in the offing.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

The fourth detachment was in front and failed to get the order to countermarch, and so kept on almost to Chancellorsville, and did not rejoin us until eight o'clock the next morning (Sunday), having spent the whole night marching.
— from The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia by Edward Alexander Moore

When people saw him crying, and said kindly, "What is the matter, my boy?"
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

Every room was closed and she knew that every room was empty.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

A pilot and the last papers were brought out in a revenue cutter as Stirling kept the ship under bare headway.
— from The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage