In 1834-35, the princess gave balls which the Comtesse Felix de Vandenesse attended.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

You still believe in equality, and yet you do the work of the corporations, and the corporations, from day to day, are busily engaged in burying equality.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

cinbān n. chin-bone, jaw-bone , Æ. cinberg f. defence of the chin or cheek, cheek-guard , Ex 175.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

My constitution is not to care for drink but as following eating and washing down my meat, and for that reason my last draught is always the greatest.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This then was the answer given to Croesus from Delphi; and as regards the answer of Amphiaraos, I cannot tell what he replied to the Lydians after they had done the things customary in his temple, 43 for there is no record of this any more than of the others, except only that Croesus thought that he also 44 possessed a true Oracle. 50.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But he never seemed to care for Dick, though he had been so fond of him once.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Far above him a faint breeze stirred the greenery, and the white petals of some unknown flower came floating down through the gloom.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Instantly the flexible limbs of the child assumed the appearance of deformity and distortion, as, with his back humped up, and his master’s stick in his hand, he hobbled about the room, his childish face drawn into a doleful pucker, and spitting from right to left, in imitation of an old man.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ANT: Cold, frigid, desponding, distrustful, croaking, misgiving, suspicious, cautious, unventuresome, timid, anxious, diffident, solicitous.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Now and then, through the hanging smoke, terrible figures flitted, painted black and red, the feathers of the hawk and eagle braided in their long scalp-locks; but save for these glimpses, the soldiers knew the presence of their sombre enemy only from the fearful rapidity with which their comrades fell dead and wounded in the ranks.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

he was not permitted to execute the plans his noble heart conceived, for death snatched him from his labors, ere the boon he contemplated for the world was ready to be given.
— from The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam by John Frost

When the emperor is incapacitated by grave causes from discharging his functions, the same thing also takes place.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

His own religion was serious, practical, intelligible; and he had a sternness of sound judgment, before which all flighty pretensions and false confidences fell down or fled away.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

But while the alternation of her hot and cold fits drove her most devoted courtiers out of patience, there was one symptom that remained invariable throughout all her paroxysms, the rigidity with which her hand was locked.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

I sighted the Norway coast four days later, in latitude 63° 19', at noon of the 11th August, and pricked off my course to follow it; but it was with a slow and dawdling reluctance that I went, at much less than half-speed.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Indians kept coming from distant regions to visit the Prophet.
— from Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Edson Leone Whitney

Police Constable Farrow did not hurry.
— from The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy

Augsburg, P. Ulhard & A. Reinheckel , 129 Colonna, F. de. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. 1499.
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard