It was a ham it was a square come well it was a square remain, a square remain not it a bundle, not it a bundle so is a grip, a grip to shed bay leave bay leave draught, bay leave draw cider in low, cider in low and george.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

All communication is like art.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

One of the apartments of the palace was decorated with a carpet of silk, sixty cubits in length, and as many in breadth: a paradise or garden was depictured on the ground: the flowers, fruits, and shrubs, were imitated by the figures of the gold embroidery, and the colors of the precious stones; and the ample square was encircled by a variegated and verdant border.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

CHAPTER LXII Am Rhein The above everyday events had occurred, and a few weeks had passed, when on one fine morning, Parliament being over, the summer advanced, and all the good company in London about to quit that city for their annual tour in search of pleasure or health, the Batavier steamboat left the Tower-stairs laden with a goodly company of English fugitives.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It was opened; the farmers would come in, look around, peer behind the counter, finally go down cellar and make a search, and then declare they would not trade at a temperance store; but, as they found here the best goods and lowest prices, with square dealing, they could not afford to go elsewhere and the store soon enjoyed a large business.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

There remaineth in the parish church of St. Peter upon Cornhill in London a table, wherein is written, that Lucius founded the same church to be an archbishop’s see, and metropolitan or chief church of his kingdom, and that it so endured the space of four hundred years, until the coming of Augustine the monk, and others, from Rome, in the reign of the Saxons.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

His hat was laying on the floor—an old black slouch with the top caved in, like a lid.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And now, when weighed down by the pains and aches of old age, when the head inclines to the feet, when the beginning and ending of human existence meet, and helpless infancy and painful old age combine together—at this time, this most needful time, the time for the exercise of that tenderness and affection which children only can exercise toward a declining parent—my poor old grandmother, the devoted mother of twelve children, is left all alone, in yonder little hut, before a few dim embers.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

They came in large and small parties, sometimes several hundred or more, including squaws and children.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers

It was the old German superstition, that any one who should eat the heart of a bird would thenceforth comprehend its language; and one modern philologist of the same nation (Masius declares) has so far studied the sounds produced by domestic fowls as to announce a Goose-Lexicon.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

However, the yarn you told them about your hearing of the Challanas in London and New York as brave Christians and not savages, and all that, saved you; by keeping your head, you {130} saved it, and if it had not been for the way you spoke and the impression you made they would undoubtedly have kept you their prisoner.”
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers

Every night there is a feast among the great officers of the court: the reserve of the Turkish character is laid aside, and friends and relations cement their union by mutual intercourse.
— from History of the Moors of Spain by Florian

Most people thought that he had made a false calculation in leaving Attica, which is a rough country and ill adapted for the movements of cavalry, to throw himself into the champaign and open tracts of Bœotia, when he knew that the strength of the barbarians lay in their chariots and cavalry.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

One day, however, she came in looking and feeling particularly savage.
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Matilda coloured deeply at something in this speech, and her cousin inveighed loudly against Emma's resolution.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

So Caepio invaded Lusitania, and traversed the land as far as the territories of the Vettones and Callaeci; Viriathus declined a conflict with the superior force, and by dexterous movements evaded his antagonist (614).
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

An example will serve more fully to explain what we have asserted, throw its correctness into light, and facilitate the application.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'