I came down a little before eight, next morning, as I knew by the striking of a distant clock.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

We discussed a local beanfeast excursion to Ramsgate, which was to take place the following 308 day; and he brightened up to recall how he had joined a similar trip to Weymouth some years ago.
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

The trees and stumps are all gone and brick buildings and other good houses occupy much of the land, and as [Pg 220] many people now live in that school district as lived both east and west of the mountains when the Territory was created in March, 1853.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

I shall endeavour to traverse the whole field of the discussion, and lay bare every view that can influence fair and honest judgment.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

The latter was customary in colonial days as life became easier and money more plentiful.
— from If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton) Ormsbee

The arms are thin, with muscles like whipcords, and the hands and feet are, in point of size and delicacy, a link between Europe and India.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"Your best dress and lace bow," exclaimed Agnes, who considered herself quite well dressed in her black alpaca, though it had been turned, and a blue neck-tie.
— from 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Boyd, E. E., Mrs.

But Gilbert, looking boldly before him, saw that the King of France was a fair, pale man with a yellow beard, strong and knightly, but with dull and lifeless blue eyes; and Gilbert looked at the lady who sat beside him, and he saw that the Queen of France was the most beautiful woman in the world; and when his eyes had seen her it was long before he looked away.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

En la terre des aveugles, le borgne est Roy.
— from Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

A busy weaver and a good correspondent, who drops a line by every post.
— from The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Gideon Wurdz

It has been said that when Henry the Eighth passed his law for the extermination of all horses below an approved stature, some of the lowland ponies, scenting danger and led by equine Tells and Winkelrieds, retreated to the mountain fastnesses, defied the throne of England, and became the Welsh mountain pony.
— from The Welsh Pony, Described in two letters to a friend by Olive Tilford Dargan