Making San Francisco my head-quarters, I paid visits to various parts of the State,—down the Bay to Santa Clara, with its live oaks and sycamores, and its Jesuit College for boys; and San José, where is the best girls' school in the State, kept by the Sisters of Notre Dame,—a town now famous for a year's session of "The legislature of a thousand drinks,"—and thence to the rich Almaden quicksilver mines, returning on the Contra Costa side through the rich agricultural country, with its ranchos and the vast grants of the Castro and Soto families, where farming and fruit-raising are done on so large a scale.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

It is for this reason that I am compelled to be vague in my narrative, and I would warn my readers that in any map or diagram which I may give the relation of places to each other may be correct, but the points of the compass are carefully confused, so that in no way can it be taken as an actual guide to the country.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

And the letter of his great seal, written about, is this; Deus in coelo , Chan super terram , ejus fortitudo .
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

V. demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest &c. (be evidence of) 467; confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify &c. 467 settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Chia Chen and those of the same generation were likewise about to ride their horses, when lady Feng, through her solicitude on Pao-yü's account, gave way to fears lest now that they had reached the open country, he should do as he pleased, and not listen to the words of any of the household, and lest Chia Chen should not be able to keep him in check; and, as she dreaded that he might go astray, she felt compelled to bid a youth call him to her; and Pao-yü had no help but to appear before her curricle.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

At the noise, a large Crab crawled slowly out of the water and, with a voice that sounded like a trombone suffering from a cold, he cried out: “Stop fighting, you rascals!
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

La clase, ¿cuáles son los días de la semana?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

What chance would those tenderfoot kids have against his cunning courage, strength and the odds of numbers?
— from The Frontier Boys in the Sierras; Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt

Curiosity prompted some of us to take a hasty inspection of it, and I could clearly see the rusty ball within the tree.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

I said, “We should worry about the cavalry; the only thing that this cavalry can surround is the organ on the merry-go-round.”
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

They were not yet conquered, and severe work remained to be done, but never again did the Lost Cause come so near success.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

Evidently the recipe for what is considered best in both of the Solari restaurants came from common ownership, for each of these places gave in response to a request for its best recipe, the following: Chicken Country Style Cut a chicken in eight pieces and drop them into some cold milk, seasoning with salt.
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

THE BIRD WOMAN, who is collecting camera studies of birds for a book.
— from Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

In that case, Commandant Santerre, Cattle-butcher Legendre, Patriot Huguenin with the tocsin in his heart; they, and others of authority, will enter in.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This compromise contravened so essentially the general plan of distressing the British forces, that General Washington deemed it necessary to interpose, and represent to the Governor of that province, the mischief to be apprehended from so dangerous a practice.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The flame of the candle cast shadows on the wall.
— from The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc