The Twentieth Corps drew back and took post at the railroad-bridge, and the Fourth Corps (Stanley) moved to his right rear, closing up with the Fourteenth Corps (Jeff.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[The Muse of the Department.] DEY (Comtesse de), born about 1755.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Very soon his escape would be discovered, the hunt would be up, he would be caught, reviled, loaded with chains, dragged back again to prison and bread-and-water and straw; his guards and penalties would be doubled; and O, what sarcastic remarks the girl would make!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I say whiteness —for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained by a high rate of evaporation, its water level dropping a meter and a half every year!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Exulting in some brief triumph, or cast down by a defeat, there he sat so wild and restless, so feverishly and intensely anxious, so terribly eager, so ravenous for the paltry stakes, that she could have almost better borne to see him dead.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

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— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Mr J. Crotthers (Disc. Bacc.) attributes some of these demises to abdominal trauma in the case of women workers subjected to heavy labours in the workshop and to marital discipline in the home but by far the vast majority to neglect, private or official, culminating in the exposure of newborn infants, the practice of criminal abortion or in the atrocious crime of infanticide.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In consideration of which kind neighbourly office of Nicholas Frog, in that he has been pleased to accept of the aforesaid trust, I, John Bull, having duly considered that my friend, Nicholas Frog, at this time lives in a marshy soil and unwholesome air, infested with fogs and damps, destructive of the health of himself, wife, and children, do bind and oblige me, my heirs and assigns, to purchase for the said Nicholas Frog, with the best and readiest of my cash, bonds, mortgages, goods and chattels, a landed estate, with parks, gardens, palaces, rivers, fields, and outlets, consisting of as large extent as the said Nicholas Frog shall think fit.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

'Yes,' he went on to the Kamboh, 'I was in haste, and the cart, driven by a bastard, bound its wheel in a water-cut, and besides the harm done to me there was lost a full dish of tarkeean.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

[61] Just noting that an ancestral origin of this kind is implied by the fact that in low types of Metazoa a hollow sphere of cells is the form first assumed by the unfolding embryo, I draw attention to the point here of chief interest; namely that the primary differentiation of this hollow sphere is in such case determined by a difference in the converse of its parts with the medium and its contents; and that the subsequent invagination arises by a continuance of this differential converse.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

When the sun thus rises early And keeps shining all day rarely, Up he draws the larks to meet him, Earth's bird-angels, wild to greet him; Up he draws the clouds, and pours Down again their shining showers; Out he draws the grass and clover, Daisies, buttercups all over; Out he wiles all flowers to stare At their father in the air— He all light, they how much duller, Yet son-suns of every colour!
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

She wore a calico dress, but at her throat was a soft little bow of ribbon.
— from The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

The three men set to work, vigourously cutting down brushwood and lopping off small boughs of trees with their swords.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

First of all, then, she was so completely deceived by appearances, that she believed the exact opposite of the truth in each particular.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

And now those wonderful kingdoms of song that the dark musicians established all night by magical chords dropped back again to the sway of that ancient silence who ruled before the gods, and the musicians wrapped their cloaks about them and covered up their marvellous instruments and stole away to the plains; and no one dared ask them whither they went or why they dwelt there, or what god they served.
— from Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany

Volume 20: Milan Produced by David Widger MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH, Volume 4e—MILAN THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: Milan by Giacomo Casanova

That very evening the chevalier de Beauvoisis and his friend said everywhere that this M. Sorel who was, moreover, quite a charming young man, was a natural son of an intimate friend of the marquis de la Mole.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

We can divide by any number which goes as wholes into the parts which make up the ratio.
— from The Second Story of Meno A Continuation of Socrates' Dialogue with Meno in Which the Boy Proves Root 2 is Irrational by Unknown