Seeing that she was endowed with natural gifts of intelligence and good looks, they also felt solicitous to bestow upon her a certain knowledge of books, with no other purpose than that of satisfying, by this illusory way, their wishes of having a son to nurture and of dispelling the anguish felt by them, on account of the desolation and void in their family circle (round their knees).
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

They had not sat long, when fortunately they descried a vessel in the offing.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

A good deal of hospitality is, and has ever been, dispensed at Venice in the cafés and restaurants, which do service for the domestic hearth.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

When day dawned, a voice in the stove said, "It seems to me it is day outside."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Accordingly, if in some parts it is explained literally, it seems to disclose a very important theory concerning the universal world, and all that is contained in it, as they are placed in a state of most divine motion.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

They were Euthycles, a Spartan; Thessaliscus, 115 son of Ismenias, and Dionysodorus, a victor in the Olympic games, Thebans; and Iphicrates, son of Iphicrates the general, an Athenian.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

These conclude that the others, who think they have found it out, are infinitely deceived; and that it is too daring a vanity in the second sort to determine that human reason is not able to attain unto it; for this establishing a standard of our power, to know and judge the difficulty of things, is a great and extreme knowledge, of which they doubt whether man is capable:— Nil sciri quisquis putat, id quoque nescit, An sciri possit; quam se nil scire fatetur.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And all about these ditches and vivaries is the great garden full of wild beasts.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The party of progress were then daily anticipating victory in their struggle with prerogative, and naturally took every opportunity to place the situation “in the light best calculated to influence female minds.”
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

After describing the Lord George Gordon Riots, he says, "I should think myself very much to blame did I here neglect to do justice to my esteemed friend Mr. Akerman, keeper of Newgate, who long discharged a very important trust with an uniform intrepid firmness, and at the same time a tenderness and a liberal charity, which entitles him to be recorded with distinguished honour."
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

When day dawned, a voice in the stove said, “It seems to me it is day outside.”
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

The rock occurs in dykes and veins in the Western Isles of Scotland, in Antrim, and on the borders of the Mourne Mountains, near Newry, in Ireland.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

Like a thief he climbs Into the fold, and that desired by day He dares amid the dark, and violence Is the priest's marriage.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

Self-consciousness is the prince of mental and social diseases, as vanity is the princess, and even self-conscious patriotism seems a little unwholesome, not quite manly, and often even grotesque.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

At length, in descending a valley, in the bottom of which was a small village, we fell in with a young peasant, whom with some difficulty, by means of an interpreter, we engaged in conversation.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Don’t you suppose that my readiness to settle down and vegetate is the reaction from that?”
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams