The THESEUS, Capt Miller, followed, brought down the GUERRIER's remaining main and mizzen masts, then anchored inside of the SPARTIATE, the third in the French line.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

-ēx , -ēcis vervēx , M., wether ; allēx , F., fish-pickle , also allēc , Ne. -ex , -icis Masculines mostly: apex , point ; cārex , F., rush ; caudex or cōdex , block , book ; cīmex , bug ; cortex , M., F., bark ; culex , gnat ; forfex , M., F., shears ; frutex , shrub ; īlex , F., holm-oak ; illex , M., F., seducer ; imbrex , tile ; latex , fluid ; mūrex , purple-shell ; obice , Ab., M., F., bar , no N.; paelex , F., concubine , pollex , thumb ; pūlex , flea ; pūmex , pumice-slone ; rāmex , blood-vessel ; rumex , sorrel ; silex , M., F., flint ; sōrex , shrew-mouse ; vortex or vertex , whirl ; vītex , F., a shrub .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But I concealed my feelings by an appearance of hilarity that brought smiles and joy to the countenance of my father, but hardly deceived the ever-watchful and nicer eye of Elizabeth.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

27 That the crown is this overbearing part in the English constitution needs not be mentioned, and that it derives its whole consequence merely from being the giver of places and pensions is self-evident, wherefore, though we have been wise enough to shut and lock a door against absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

I am not a judicial woman, so I gave it up," answered Christie, much flattered by his request, and amused at the respectful way in which David looked at her.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

So also the lines that are its sides, of what length it pleases, which joining again to other lines, of different lengths, and at different angles, till it has wholly enclosed any space, it is evident that it can multiply figures, both in their shape and capacity, IN INFINITUM; all which are but so many different simple modes of space.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It might indeed be possible to cover my face; but of what use was that, when I was unable to conceal the alteration in my stature?
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Thus, once on a time, did I also cast my fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He composed this fanatic epistle (A. D. 388) to justify a bishop who had been condemned by the civil magistrate for burning a synagogue.
— 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

Tin came mainly from Britain.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The moment her eyes rested on another silver coin Mother Fetu burst into loud thanks.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

Then the whole thing became clear to me; my election to the chair was a sop to console me for being shunted from the Parish Council.
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 107, December 8th, 1894 by Various

STRANGE PEOPLE Depicting the dress, manners, and customs of the nations of the world; introducing many of the Oriental characters made famous by the Chicago Columbian Exposition and the Midway.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

Not the stark, foul streets of Stalingrad, not the workers with their vapid faces or the Comrades with their cautious, sweating, trembling, fearful non-decisions, not the higher echelon of Comrades, more frightened but showing it less, who would love the beauty of her breasts and loins but not herself for you never love anything but the Stalinimage and Mother Russia herself, not those terrified martinet-marionettes who would love the parts of her if she permitted but not her or any other person for that matter.
— from Recruit for Andromeda by Stephen Marlowe

“His head,” says a popular zoologist, “resembles that of the camel in the absence of a naked muzzle, and in the shape and organization of the nostrils, which are oblique and narrow apertures, defended by the hair which grows from their margins, and surrounded by cutaneous muscular fibres, by which the animal can close them at will.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

In 1568 the Duke of Alva was master of the Netherlands: he was already able to send a considerable force to help the French government, which had once more broken an agreement forced upon it by the Huguenots; the stress of the religious war was transferred to France, and there too the Catholic military force by degrees gained the upper hand.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

I shall never be able to make you understand the case more fully; but that is the sum of it, and he's a consummate rogue."
— from The Wyndham Girls by Marion Ames Taggart

Add to this the little pouch containing materials for betel-chewing, and a long slender knife, both invariably worn at the side, and you have the everyday dress of the young Dyak gentleman.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace