The crown in full rarely receives the title “yenork” nowadays,—it is usually a “wheel” or “evif gen.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The snowy whiteness of the grounding is relieved by dainty buffs, pale pinks, and softest écrus, deep yellows shot with brown, orange streaked with vermilion, or straying into crimson, chocolate merging into black, and interlined with lemon—by colours, in fact, run riot, and all glistening wet beneath the clearest crystal water, that in the centre of the crater deepens into a heavenly blue.
— from Saddle and Mocassin by Francis Francis

By another perforation at the same place, the water was found at the depth of 328 feet below the surface clay; it first rose rapidly to the height of 189 feet, and then, in the course of a few hours, ascended to an elevation of eight feet above the level of the ground.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

“Behold my entrance,” said he; “and, if you permit me, my egress—” “The frog gets not out of the well so easily as he came in, friend,” returned Rienzi, smiling.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He declared that the attack on Le Zéphyr was a mere accident: that his company had entered the morne, led by the bloodhounds in pursuit of some negroes, from whom they wanted certain information for Rochambeau, respecting the localities; that they had thus become acquainted with the almost impracticable pass by which they had entered; that, when the hounds had destroyed the children, and proved that there were inhabitants in the morne, the situation of Le Zéphyr had been discovered, and afterwards the rank of its inhabitants; that the temptation of carrying off these hostages to Rochambeau had been too strong to be resisted; and hence the attack.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

My choice is for reality rather than art.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

She pretended to have learned this intelligence by accident, and to communicate it from respectful regard; and advised her to go to London herself at the same time, that she might see into his designs, and be some check upon his pleasure.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

The young ones come in from recess red, not with the brilliant glow of winter, but a sort of scalded red.
— from Back Home by Eugene Wood