Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and of themselves.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

She went swiftly down the streets (she had no money to pay for a carriage), and never stopped until she came to Sir Pitt Crawley's door, in Great Gaunt Street.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

A few clouds, floating high upward, caught some of the earliest light, and threw down its golden gleam on the windows of all the houses in the street, not forgetting the House of the Seven Gables, which—many such sunrises as it had witnessed—looked cheerfully at the present one.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our common Henbane has [92] very large, thick, soft, woolly leaves, lying on the ground, much cut in, or torn on the edges, of a dark, ill greyish green colour; among which arise up divers thick and short stalks, two or three feet high, spread into divers small branches, with lesser leaves on them, and many hollow flowers, scarce appearing above the husk, and usually torn on one side, ending in five round points, growing one above another, of a deadish yellowish colour, somewhat paler towards the edges, with many purplish veins therein, and of a dark, yellowish purple in the bottom of the flower, with a small point of the same colour in the middle, each of them standing in a hard close husk, which after the flowers are past, grow very like the husk of Asarabacca, and somewhat sharp at the top points, wherein is contained much small seed, very like Poppy seed, but of a dusky, greyish colour.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

“Damn it,” grumbled Gagin, annoyed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is quite impossible for me to describe its grim grandeur as it appeared to me while my patient bearers toiled along the bed of the ancient watercourse towards the spot where the rich brown-hued cliff shot up from precipice to precipice till its crown lost itself in a cloud.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Thus does it grow greater and richer with each new generation.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

"To die is great gain" we are taught by each.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Constitution der Ikarischen Güter Gemeinschaft, etc.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Certain methods of prognostication described by him are practised by some people in the Isle of Man on the one day and by some on the other, and the Roman date is gaining ground. {1} [114] See p. 252 .
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

It gives also a false impression; for to us a long description, if good, gives the effect of ‘sweetness long drawn out,’ and, if bad, brings drowsiness; whereas in Sanskrit the unending compounds suggest the impetuous rush of a torrent, and the similes and puns are like the play of light and shade on its waters.
— from The Kādambarī of Bāṇa by Bāṇa‏

In a "separate and secret despatch," Lord Dartmouth instructed General Gage to have a special eye on the ex-English officer.
— from The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Mary Caroline Crawford

Mr. Poole being gone, there came in his place as curate an oldish man, grey-haired and meagre; a great adorer of Archbishop Laud and of King Charles the First, 'the Royal Martyr,' as he would say; but for all his half Popish notions, he was blameless, nay, austere in his life; and he had thriven so ill in the gay new world of London, that he deemed it great good luck to have the curate's place at West Fazeby.
— from Andrew Golding: A Tale of the Great Plague by Annie E. Keeling

In most of the work, and that is naturally that which one tries to describe in giving general directions in graining a certain wood, the surface should be combed over with rubber combs and afterward split up with a fine steel comb to break up the vein lines.
— from Graining and Marbling A Series of Practical Treatises on Material, Tools and Appliances Used; General Operations; Preparing Oil Graining Colors; Mixing; Rubbing; Applying Distemper Colors; Wiping Out; Penciling; The Use of Crayons; Review of Woods; The Graining of Oak, Ash, Cherry, Satinwood, Mahogany, Maple, Bird's Eye Maple, Sycamore, Walnut, Etc.; Marbling in All Shades. by F. (Frederick) Maire

Thus, while the brain of the mammals agrees a good deal in general growth with that of the birds and reptiles, there are some striking differences between the two.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel