I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it—to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace—and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

An old black dog was sitting by her, his nose resting on his lap, his big doggish eyes full of mute, imploring sympathy and devotion.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

His tactics seem to have been to dangle promises ever before her, but to give her nothing; to procure dramatic engagements for her, and prevent her from fulfilling them.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Breakfast, for the first five minutes, was a silent meal; then Miss Polly, her disapproving eyes following the airy wings of two flies darting here and there over the table, said sternly: “Nancy, where did those flies come from?”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The Smartlings won't do either, for the same reason, nor the Gaylies.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

DECLENSION rīpa barbarī captīvus castellum impedīmentum THIRD DECLENSION animal arbor avis caedēs 274 calamitās calcar caput cīvis cliēns collis cōnsul dēns dux eques fīnis flūmen fōns frāter homō hostīs ignis imperātor īnsigne iter iūdex labor lapis legiō mare māter mēnsis mīles mōns nāvis opus ōrātor ōrdō pater pedes pēs pōns prīnceps rēx salūs sanguis soror tempus terror turris urbs victor virtūs vīs Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions barbarus dexter sinister summus Prepositions Adverbs Conjunctions in with the abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

D7, E1, F2, G3, A4, B5, C6.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Votre paye était en arrière; il était souvent votre débiteur.--Qu'est-ce que cela fait, dit vivement le grenadier, si nous voulions lui faire crédit?» Donnez, en français, des définitions des noms qui se trouvent dans cette anecdote.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

(3) From 1923 onward, Therese has abstained completely from food and drink, except for the daily swallowing of one small consecrated wafer. (4) The stigmata, or sacred wounds of Christ, appeared in 1926 on Therese's head, breast, hands, and feet.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

So far, according to him, did esteem for Scripture as the Word of God go in the Middle Ages, that he even ventures to characterise the formula “ sola scriptura ” as “Catholic commonplace”;
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

How this scorn holds freemen in the dark, Except for a flare at will that, then, the throng, Reduced to dust, may rise and whirl along The lift and drop of glitter, without spark To set the spring a-crackling with bird song, Till bud and angel both come out to hark!
— from Freedom, Truth and Beauty Sonnets by Edward Doyle

Hurricane Bob can play in the sea, toying with the waves for hours, and still not be wet quite to the skin, and when he comes on shore again he just gives himself a shake or two, buckets of water fly in all directions, for the time being he looks like an animated mop, then away he feathers across the sands, and in a few minutes he is dry enough for the drawing-room.
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

From thence sailing the said course the next day, we had sight of a land called Tuke, in the countrey of Tumen, where pirats and rouers do vse: for feare of whom we haled off into the sea due East forty miles, and fell vpon shallowes out of the sight of land, and there were like to haue perished, escaping most hardly:
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

It was a day of physical delight, especially for riders.
— from Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The extraordinary feature of such belief is the disproportion between its vividness and the [ 63 ] direct evidence for it.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

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— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones

'Dromio,' I continued, 'at sight of this trifle experienced the most diverse emotions, for while he possessed in it a clew to his mistress's fate, he had still to use it so as to discover the place whither she had been hurried.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

New Brunswick (Canada), Quebec (Canada) ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)—acronym from Organismo para la Proscripcion de las Armas Nucleares en la America Latina y el Caribe (OPANAL); established—14 February 1967; aim—to encourage the peaceful uses of atomic energy and prohibit nuclear weapons; members—(25) Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela; _@ observer—(1) Cuba ————————————————————————————————————- #_Andean Group (AG) established—26 May 1969, effective 16 October 1969; aim—to promote harmonious development through economic integration; members—(5) Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela; associate member—(1) Panama; observers—(26) Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US, Uruguay, Yugoslavia ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA), also known as Banque Arabe de Developpement Economique en Afrique (BADEA); established—18 February 1974, effective 16 September 1974; aim—to promote economic development; members—(17 plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Palestine Liberation Organization; note—these are all the members of the Arab League except Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Arab Cooperation Council (ACC) established—16 February 1989; aim—to promote economic cooperation and integration, possibly leading to an Arab Common Market; members—(4)
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency