Sobre estas columnas fundó una administración que todavía no conoce rival en estos países, y parte de cuyas creaciones, como puntos luminosos han lucido hasta en las negras horas del gobierno bárbaro que por tantos años mantuvo detenido el carro del progreso [2] argentino....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The Emperor Oscar looked fixedly at the valet; for a moment the thought rose in him to have the man himself examined, but he at once realized the absurdity of any such suspicion: the man had been his personal servant for years and years, was entirely devoted to him and stood answering Oscar's long stare with calm, respectful eyes, evidently pondering the mystery of the strange riddle.
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

And as I had carefully read everything ever printed on the Romany, and had given a very respectable collection of what was new to me as well as to all my Romany rye colleagues in Europe, I could only grieve to think that such treasures of learning should thus remain hidden in the brain of one who had never at any time or in any other way manifested the possession of any remarkable knowledge.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

Just as De Quincey, having taken a dose of opium and uttered the word " Consul Romanus ," evoked entire pages of Livius , and beheld the solemn advance of the consuls and the magnificent, pompous march of the Roman armies, so he, at a theological expression, paused breathless as he viewed the onrush of penitents and the churchly apparitions which detached themselves from the glowing depths of the basilica.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

When the purple colour reaches either end plunge that end into water, holding it in the water until the purple colour reaches the other end.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

And he directs the Evodes to be dissolved and diluted in water, and introduced into the eyes with a probe, or after inverting the eyelid, when it was used with the view of extenuating recent cicatrices of the eyes, and removing granulations of the eyelids,—“ex aqua autem ad cicatrices recentes extenuendas, et palpebrarum asperitudinem tollendam teri debet, et subjecto specillo aut inversa palpebra, oculis inseri.”
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

“Haud tamen ullum Homericorum carminum exemplar Pisistrati seculo antiquius extitisse, aut sexcentesimo prius anno ante C. N. scriptum fuisse, facile credam: rara enim et perdifficilis erat iis temporibus scriptura ob penuriam materiæ scribendo idoneæ, quum literas aut lapidibus exarare, aut tabulis ligneis aut laminis metalli alicujus insculpere oporteret....
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

Antique French upholstery, Turkish carpets, Russian enamels, English prints, Asiatic vases, Chinese jades, and a hundred other varieties of bibelots combined themselves, under the immensity of the carved stone groinings, into a somehow beautiful whole.
— from The Black Ghost of the Highway by Gertrude Linnell