I had no time for more than a passing glance, for as I cast an eye round the mound preparatory to making my descent I saw several dark forms rushing round on either side to cut me off on my way.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNS The hill opposite Bathsheba's dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of land, dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

ANT: Unfairness, sleight, underhandedness, meanness, chicanery, duplicity, fraud, roguery, rascality.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

On Thursday I went to his office, drunk, filthy, ragged, reeking of vodka like a cellar . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

derecha f right, right hand; adv ( A. derecho )
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It is an argument from analogy, drawn from rivers, reflex actions and other material phenomena where no consciousness appears to exist at all, and extended to cases where consciousness seems the phenomenon's essential feature.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Paying only three dollars for room rent seemed ridiculous.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Speak not so, my dear father,” replied Rebecca; “we may not indeed mix with them in banquet and in jollity; but in wounds and in misery, the Gentile becometh the Jew's brother.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"Some of the Framers were descended from religious refugees," she said.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Directly after dinner every one commenced "packing up;" which term might have been supposed to include every form of skylarking which the heart of the small boy could devise, from racing round the quadrangle, arrayed in one of Bibbs's night-shirts, to playing football in the gymnasium, North versus South, with the remains of an old mortar-board.
— from The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs by Harold Avery

2. Delight, fascination, rapture, ravishment, transport.
— 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

Suddenly the child ran inward, laid his hands on the old man's knee, and said delightedly: "Father runs round the table—mother runs round the table—father beats mother—mother runs round the table and—cries."
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

The construction of the buildings has been in the hands of a regiment of railroad engineers and a forestry regiment, assisted by companies detailed from regular regiments.
— from The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918 The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

"Then have patience for but a little while longer, Don Felipe Ramirez," replied Juan, rubbing the palms of his long, slim hands together, as though he already felt the magic touch of the gold and heard its musical clink in his ears.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

A slaver at the age of seventeen, the ringleader of a mutiny on the African Coast at the age of twenty, a privateersman during the last war with England, the commander of a fire-ship and its sole survivor at twenty-five, with a wild intermediate career of unmixed piracy, until the Rebellion called him to civil service again as a blockade-runner, and peace and a desire for rural repose led him to seek the janitorship of the Doemville Academy, where no questions were asked and references not exchanged: he was, indeed, a fit mentor for our daring youth.
— from Drift from Two Shores by Bret Harte

The following Tuesday a long dispatch from Rotterdam reached the department, stating, among other things, that one of the Dillingham diamonds could be distinguished by a heart-shaped flaw located just below the surface.
— from On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents by William Nelson Taft

[8] During the following years, Dr. Förstemann repeatedly referred to these pages in his publications and, in 1898, published an article devoted to these pages alone.
— from A Possible Solution of the Number Series on Pages 51 to 58 of the Dresden Codex by Carl E. (Carl Eugen) Guthe

The agony of these thoughts was mitigated by the scorching hatred that had replaced her love, the desire for retaliation, revenge.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill