It could be nothing but the violence of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the shutters; and she stepped boldly forward, carelessly humming a tune, to assure herself of its being so, peeped courageously behind each curtain, saw nothing on either low window seat to scare her, and on placing a hand against the shutter, felt the strongest conviction of the wind's force.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The first woman's rights convention was called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright and Mary Ann McClintock, at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848; Susan B. Anthony made her first speech on temperance in 1849.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

There were ears, half covered by every conceivable semblance of a hat, which still looked stiff and bitten.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The Raven THE RAVEN By EDGAR ALLAN POE ILLUSTRATED By GUSTAVE DORÉ WITH COMMENT BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1884 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

No one ought to blame us for telling what things cost, because everything costs so much.
— from A Woman's Will by Anne Warner

Two beds with white coverlets, coarse but exquisitely clean, stood side by side—"Though we won't use them both.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Dill , an umbelliferous plant, Anēthum graveŏlens , a native of the southern countries of Europe, the fruits, commonly but erroneously called seeds, of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and are employed medicinally as a carminative.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

"I didn't think you were such a cruel boy!" exclaimed Catherine, sarcastically.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

A strange way to attain truth and knowledge: and that which I think the rational part of mankind, not corrupted by education, could scare believe should ever be admitted amongst the lovers of truth, and students of religion or nature, or introduced into the seminaries of those who are to propegate the truths of religion or philosophy amongst the ignorant and unconvinced.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

"Ainsi A est chargé secrètement de faire frapper 25 coups, B est chargé secrètement de l'arrêter à 18; A l'emporte, et les 25 coups s'achèvent....
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

The board organized immediately upon the adjournment of the stockholders’ meeting, and chose D. G. Eshleman, Esq., president; Dr. Henry Carpenter and Rev. J. Max Hark, vice-presidents; J. D. Pyott, clerk; H. C. Brubaker, Esq., corresponding secretary; Geo. K. Reed, treasurer.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

[255] It is commonly but erroneously called Shab-i-Barát.
— from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell