The waters were high so that the bottoms were generally overflowed, leaving only narrow causeways of dry land between points of debarkation and the high bluffs.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"You have gone and changed your clothes," observed dowager lady Chia, "before being introduced to the distant guest.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

[He yawns] Ever since the Professor and his wife have come, our daily life seems to have jumped the track.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

dominus ; in oblique case OF. dam ; Lat. dominum , see Bartsch and Roland.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The crowd of devils lined off before him, taking their departure and crushing out through the gate with no end of noise and confusion.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Agen (a ˙ -zhan ˙ ), one of the oldest towns in France, capital of department Lot-et-Garonne on the Garonne, 74 miles south-east of Bordeaux; see of a bishop; manufactures sailcloth and other articles, and has an extensive trade.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

As when a Gryfon through the Wilderness With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stelth Had from his wakeful custody purloind The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes: 950 At length a universal hubbub wilde Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd Born through the hollow dark assaults his eare With loudest vehemence: thither he plyes, Undaunted to meet there what ever power Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes Bordering on light; when strait behold the Throne Of Chaos, and his dark Pavilion spread 960 Wide on the wasteful Deep; with him Enthron'd Sat Sable-vested Night, eldest of things, The consort of his Reign; and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon; Rumor next and Chance, And Tumult and Confusion all imbroild, And Discord with a thousand various mouths.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Four or five of the rarer types of stanza are, however, made up of a combination of different lines.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Secretary of State under the Restoration, the Marquis, anxious to re-enter political life, set about preparing for his candidature to the Chamber of Deputies long beforehand.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

As they are not necessarily engrossed by the cares of daily life—as they have never been so, any more than their fathers were before them—they have learned to take an interest, for several generations back, in the labors of the mind.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Sex did not puzzle her, only its cabined seclusion from the general current of daily life.
— from Painted Veils by James Huneker

In his civil or domestic life, there is nothing so gallant, so respectable, and so disinterested.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

A great slab of native basalt eroded by seventy years of sun and rain bore the barely discernible epitaph: “Ci Git Edouard Michel Halley Capitaine de Corvette Officier de la Légion d'honneur Fondateur de la colonie de Vait-hua Mort au champ d'honneur Le 17 ——bre, 1842” I read it to my friends.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

XVI Most men of the world, through vanity, caution or disaster, let themselves love a woman freely only after intimate intercourse.
— from On Love by Stendhal

PDC, PPD, PR, PS; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Eduardo FREI Ruiz-Tagle; Party for Democracy (PPD), Sergio BITAR; Radical Party (PR), Carlos GONZALEZ Marquez; Sociaistl Party (PS), German CORREA; Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Jovino NOVOA; National Renovation (RN), Andree ALLAMAND; Center-Center Union (UCC), Francisco Juner ERRAZURIZ; Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), Volodia TEITELBOIM; Allende Leftist Democratic Movement (MIDA), Mario PALESTRO Other political or pressure groups: revitalized university student federations at all major universities dominated by opposition political groups; labor - United Labor Central (CUT) includes trade unionists from the country's five largest labor confederations; Roman Catholic Church Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory Elections: Chamber of Deputies: last held 14 December 1989 (next to be held December 1993); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (120 total) Concertation of Parties for Democracy 71 (PDC 38, PPD 17, PR 5, other 11), RN 29, UDI 11, right-wing independents 9 President: last held 14 December 1989 (next to be held December 1993); results - Patricio AYLWIN (PDC) 55.2%, Hernan BUCHI 29.4%, other 15.4% *Chile, Government Senate: last held 14 December 1989 (next to be held December 1993); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (46 total, 38 elected) Concertation of Parties for Democracy 22 (PDC 13, PPD 5, PR 2, PSD 1, PRSD 1), RN 6, UDI 2, right-wing independents 8 Executive branch: president, Cabinet Legislative branch: bicameral National Congress (Congreso Nacional) consisting of an upper house or Senate (Senado) and a lower house or Chamber of Deputies (Camara de Diputados) Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Corte Suprema)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Always de forester let de poor folks come into de wood and carry off de limbs dat fall, and de dead trees.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

The writer had returned from his undertaking, and had returned successful—successful beyond his wildest hopes—this was emphasised—and would follow on upon the letter at the very earliest opportunity, not more than a couple of days later at the outside, he hoped.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

If, then, the majority of members chosen by the middle class oppose Domestic Legislation, the middle class is suspected of not being truly national—the sincerity of the People is made doubtful—an impediment is opposed to Repeal, which the Repeal Association properly strive to upset.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

When the first part of Childe Harold came out, dull London society was bewitched by the music and novelty of this enthusiastic lyric of Nature, with its incomparable interweaving of scenery and feeling: The sails were fill'd, and fair the light winds blew, As glad to waft him from his native home....
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese