To study the genius and character of a nation you should go to the more remote provinces, where there is less stir, less commerce, where strangers seldom travel, where the inhabitants stay in one place, where there are fewer changes of wealth and position.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dinah, covered with her long white dress, her pale face full of subdued emotion, almost like a lovely corpse into which the soul has returned charged with sublimer secrets and a sublimer love.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The travellers sat for some time wrapt in the complacency which such scenes inspire.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

From the city of Elephantine as one goes up the river there is country which slopes steeply; so that here one must attach ropes to the vessel on both sides, as one fastens an ox, and so make one's way onward; and if the rope break, the vessel is gone at once, carried away by the violence of the stream.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Then I took an opportunity, when they were all gone into the foreyarde, and slipt into the office and there busy all the afternoon, but by and by the women got into the garden, and come all to my closett window, and there tormented me, and I confess their cries were so sad for money, and laying down the condition of their families and their husbands, and what they have done and suffered for the King, and how ill they are used by us, and how well the Dutch are used here by the allowance of their masters, and what their husbands are offered to serve the Dutch abroad, that I do most heartily pity them, and was ready to cry to hear them, but cannot helpe them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

My uncle no sooner heard his name mentioned, than he started up, crying, with some surprise, “Holla!”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the midst of this chamber were four stones, which had formerly served as an altar, as was evident from the cross which still surmounted them.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Let Mariana, in the dress of Isabella, go closely veiled to Angelo, and say, in a voice resembling Isabella's, that if Claudio were spared she would marry him.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

With these, an intelligently planned and carefully executed advertising and sales campaign will spell success.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The King of England was again to be urged formally but insincerely to advance and join the Emperor, but if he would not the Emperor must make peace, always providing that the English claims were satisfactorily settled.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Mr. Clarke leaned against the wall, listening intently, and Clarice, determined not to let Jerce go until the confession was signed, stood with her back to the door.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

The Millbank committee were sanguine still, in 1838, when Mr. Nihil came into power under them.
— from Millbank Penitentiary: An Experiment in Reformation by Arthur Griffiths

Marguerite wrote to her brother, still at Madrid: "My desire to obey your commands was sufficiently strong without having it redoubled by the charity you have been pleased to show poor Berquin according to your promise; I feel that He for whom I believe him to have suffered will approve of the mercy which, for His honor, you have had upon His servant and your own."
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

And she considered whether she should carry the child home, or the basket of clay, but in the end decided to take the clay which was urgently wanted, while she would doubtless have plenty more children in the course of time.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

But when she might cease weeping, she said to Viridis: Tell me, art thou weeping for thy friend who is lost, and who shall be thy friend no more; or thy friend whom thou hast found? Said Viridis:
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

I could not rest while surveying its ten thousand wonders,—so much lightness combined with strength; so grand, and yet so cheerful; so exquisitely proportioned, so complicated in details, and yet a grand unity; a glorious and fit temple for the reverential worship of the Deity.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

If p -toluenesulphaminobenzenesulphonic chloride is condensed with sodium sulphanilide, a compound, —-SO_2—-NH—- NaSO_3 ^ ^ ^
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser