Hence they put them up with a light heart on the cackling of their côteries, and they and their children had to live, often enough, with some wordy windbag whose cowardice had cost the country untold loss in blood and money.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The cabby usually likes it better than hurrying.
— from The Mutable Many: A Novel by Robert Barr

Something within him was revelling, was dancing a tarantella as the sun came up, lifting its blood-red rim above the sea-line in the east.
— from The Call of the Blood by Robert Hichens

In the copy of the Revised and Amended Prescript owned by Columbia University Library is bound a letter in which is mentioned this order of destruction.— Editor.
— from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by John C. Lester

In these, however, it shares the prevailing simplicity, is strictly conventional in character, usually laid in blue and worked into the shape of a circular medallion, or sometimes, in conjunction with the fret, into corner devices.
— from The Mentor: Chinese Rugs, Vol. 4, Num. 2, Serial No. 102, March 1, 1916 by John Kimberly Mumford

In the beginning it is tolerably easy to count the words the child uses; later it becomes more difficult, as there are times when his command of speech grows with astonishing rapidity.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

He might have known what was my fell purpose, for, after doggedly holding his own while I might count ten, he came up, literally inch by inch, in response to the cautious turn of the winch handle.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

Then it was that the British Lion gave a roar, and in clear, unmistakable language informed both France and Germany if they ventured to fire a gun against America in the defence of Spain, England would not remain neutral, but would side with America and lend her assistance on sea and land.
— from Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 by Arthur Bird

Scrape and wash clean a breast of mutton; put it down in the soup kettle to boil with five quarts of water, put in a small cup of barley, or two tablespoonsful of rice; let it boil slowly three hours and 13 thirty minutes; skim it well; add carrots, a turnip, an onion, and a little parsley cut up; let it boil forty minutes longer; season with pepper and salt; serve hot.
— from The Philadelphia Housewife; or, Family Receipt Book by Hodgson, Mary, active 1855

It had never been painted, it was shedding its flapping gray shingles like gray scales, the roof sagged in a mossy hollow before the chimney, the windows and doors were awry, and the whole house was full of undulations and wavering lines, which gave it a curiously unreal look in broad daylight.
— from Pembroke: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"That this doctrine may be still more clearly understood, let it be considered that, although the earth's diameter bears a considerable proportion to the distance of the earth from the moon, yet this diameter is almost nothing when compared to the distance of the earth from the sun.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson