The magic carpet of the Arabian Nights finds its parallel to-day in the enchanted mat of the Chinese conjuror, which carries him from place to place, at a height of twenty or thirty feet in the air.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

For-helen , v. to conceal, HD; forholen , pp. , S, HD; forhole , S, HD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

An old maid stood at the window; she had hung chickweed over the cage, and the little linnet which it contained hopped from perch to perch and sang and twittered merrily.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In the end Chichikov’s dispatch-box was brought from the koliaska, and Khlobuev received thence ten thousand roubles, together with a promise that the remaining five thousand should be forthcoming on the morrow; though the promise was given only after Chichikov had first proposed that THREE thousand should be brought on the day named, and the rest be left over for two or three days longer, if not for a still more protracted period.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Today one can hardly feel Page 107 that such a career would have been suited to the man or regret that events took the course they did.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

In the court he found Penelon, who, with a rouleau of a hundred francs in either hand, seemed unable to make up his mind to retain them.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But I am sure the younger of our nature, That surfeit on their ease, will day by day Come here for physic.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She ceased: her father promised; whereupon She grew so cheerful that they deemed her death Was rather in the fantasy than the blood.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Besides Ranelagh and Vauxhall, I have been at Mrs Cornelys’ assembly, which, for the rooms, the company, the dresses, and decorations, surpasses all description; but as I have no great turn for card playing, I have not yet entered thoroughly into the spirit of the place: indeed I am still such a country hoyden, that I could hardly find patience to be put in a condition to appear, yet, as I was not above six hours under the hands of the hair-dresser, who stuffed my head with as much black wool as would have made a quilted petticoat; and, after all, it was the smallest head in the assembly, except my aunt’s—She, to be sure, was so particular with her rumpt gown and petticoat, her scanty curls, her lappethead, deep triple ruffles, and high stays, that every body looked at her with surprise: some whispered, and some tittered; and lady Griskin, by whom we were introduced, flatly told her, she was twenty good years behind the fashion.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Peter found himself coming home for Pat's bedtime with increasing frequency.
— from The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun

But he that had but one argument left, that on all occasions served to convince her, had at last recourse to that, which put her in good humour, and hanging on his neck, she kindly chid him for putting such a trick upon her lady.
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

At fifteen he ran away from home, and joining a strolling company, acted Roxana in woman's clothes: his friends pursued him, and, changing his dress for that of a girl of the time, he tried to escape them, but in vain.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

Her good sense, her steady cheerfulness, her firm principle, were always awake for Ellen's good, ever ready to comfort her, to cheer her, to prevent her from giving undue way to sorrow, to urge her to useful exertion.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Among the crowd there are women; the widow with veiled head, and tearful eyes; the mother clasping her dead child; the poor slave, cowering beneath the lash of the taskmaster, and stretching out her chained hands for pity.
— from The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton

He went back into the legendary past where imagination could have free play, linked together the great heroic sagas of Greece with the scanty materials presented by the prehistoric legends of Rome, and kindled the whole work to life by his rich historical imagination and his sense of the grandeur of the Rome that was to be.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

The sun, swinging in a low arc, cocked a lazy eye over the southern peaks, and Hollister carried his first pack-load up to the log cabin while the moss underfoot, the tree trunks, the green blades of the salal, and the myriad stalks of the low thickets were still gleaming with the white frost that came with a clearing sky.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

At 7.30 the bell rings for compline, which often lasts till 9 o’clock, for there is compline to sing, De Profundis , prayers for the dead, litany of the blessed Virgin, and hymn and prayers to our holy Father St. Benedict, meditation, and the closing hymn, after which we go in procession, singing “Ave, Maria,” to the dormitory, when each sister, kneeling at the entrance of her cell, closes her eyes, and sings: Mother of Jesus, night is come, And wearily we fall to sleep; Ask Him to guard our cloister home, From powers of ill His flock to keep.
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.

But Cuba has fine ports, and with her acquisition, we can make first the Gulf of Mexico, and then the Carribean Sea, a mare clausum .
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall