I do not know the play; but, as Maria says, if there is anything a little too warm (and it is so with most of them) it can be easily left out.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

They plunged into the red-curtained tavern, which was not only cosy, but even luxurious inside.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Ac. 21.24. 2 Co. 12.15; to spend, waste, conosume by extravagance, Lu. 15.14.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

H2 anchor Chapter 5.XLII—How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it. (‘This and the next chapter make really but one, tho’ Mr. Motteux has made two of them; the first of which contains but eight lines, according to him, and ends at the words fantastic fountain.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

[ The whole series of the tyranny of Hormouz, the revolt of Bahram, and the flight and restoration of Chosroes, is related by two contemporary Greeks—more concisely by Evagrius, (l. vi. c. 16, 17, 18, 19,) and most diffusely by Theophylact Simocatta, (l. iii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Correspondingly accurate statistics are not accessible for China but in the Shantung province we talked with a farmer having 12 in his family and who kept one donkey, one cow, both exclusively laboring animals, and two pigs on 2.5 acres of cultivated land where he grew wheat, millet, sweet potatoes and beans.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

It would thus appear that the nectar has a very pronounced taste, and that, in consequence, birds either like it intensely or positively dislike it.
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

This gentleman, unfortunately without any knowledge of plants, trees, or landscape beauty, launches out into the dreary sea of quotations from old books about gardens, and knows so little of where he is going, that he is put out of his course by every little drift of wind.
— from Garden Design and Architects' Gardens Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic by W. (William) Robinson

[Pg 59] are not common, but every large museum has specimens of them.
— from Diggers in the Earth by Eva March Tappan

Copyright , By Estes & Lauriat , 1879.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

Five eagle plumes are attached to the cloud backs (eagles live with the clouds); the body is surrounded with sunlight; the lines of red and blue which border the bunch upon the back denote sunbeams penetrating storm clouds.
— from Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson

It has been given to all work in which the scissors are active agents, whether in cutting out the outlines or in incising the pattern, as in much of the linen and muslin embroideries of our day, now called “Madeira work,” of which a great deal was made in the first part of the century by English ladies who designed and collected patterns from each other, and gave the produce of their industry as gifts to their friends for collars, cuffs, and trimmings.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Two large consignments of goods were received about the last date at Columbus by Elizabeth L. Comstock for the same object.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

There will certainly be enough left for you to eat your dinner without remorse."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

In this electronic version first lines can be easily located via searches.
— from Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts