The mother stammered:— “With her injured hand.” “The air will do it good,” said Jondrette.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Finally he settled at Offenbach and supported by liberal subsidies from the other Jews, he resumed his former splendour 480 with a retinue of several hundred beautiful Jewish youth of both sexes; carts containing treasure were reported to be perpetually brought in to him, chiefly from Poland--he went out daily in great state to perform his devotions in the open field--he rode in a chariot drawn by noble horses; ten or twelve Hulans in red or green uniform, glittering with gold, by his side, with pikes in their hands and crests on their caps, eagles, or stags, or the sun and moon....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The schottische, hop-waltz, redowa, varsovienne, cellarius, and so forth, have had their day, and are no longer danced in good society.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The impulse of right-thinking men might be to run a mile when they saw the Bassett, but for some reason she appealed to the deeps in Gussie, so that was that.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

These were distressing revelations indeed; and though I was quite too young to comprehend the full import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with the other children, a shade of disquiet rested upon me.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"It is fortunate, then, that Deleah Day is going," she said presently.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

Every day I gained strength, colour, and flesh.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

Fundamental drills in Gregg shorthand for reading, writing and transcription, by Gertrude Beers & Letha P. Scott.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The soldiers were nearly all dressed in gray suits, and the firemen in red and black, except the Wilmington company, which also appeared in gray.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

Evils and falses, after they arose, were distinguished into genera, species, and differences, 479 .
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg