He bought two splendid estates in different parts of France, and entered into a negotiation with the family of the Duke de Sully for the purchase of the marquisate of Rosny.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Though dreading the tortures, as He dreaded death still more which would consign him to eternal torments, the Abbot asserted his purity in a voice bold and resolute.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

There was but little time left to spend with Dr. Duchesne, so the physician walked with him to the stage office.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Y acercándome a la mesa del Coronel y del Comandante, después de ser presentado a ellos por mis amigos, les referí a todos la espantosa narración del minero.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

They went in to dinner, and the repast was such as Don Diego said on the road he was in the habit of giving to his guests, neat, plentiful, and tasty; but what pleased Don Quixote most was the marvellous silence that reigned throughout the house, for it was like a Carthusian monastery.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate, Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head; O who is that ghost?
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Leslie watched beside him till he fell into a deep, deathlike sleep; then she stole downstairs and sent for a doctor.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

The bright line (or lines if the spectroscope be powerful) of the metal is seen as a prolongation of the dark D solar line.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

These depict different scenes in Bible stories, such as Cain slaying his brother with [Pg 226] his left hand, the whale and Jonah, Mary and Joseph fleeing into Egypt.
— from Historic Homes of New England by Mary Harrod Northend

"I reckon as how it were owin' to de fack dat dey struck in a bank ob soft sand dat concussioned de fall," explained Washington.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

Dwarfish, dwarfed, diminutive, small, stunted, Liliputian, pygmy.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

He made me understand you, judge you leniently, see in you the virtues you have cherished despite drawbacks such as few have to struggle with.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott