Without this arrest of everything, this standing still of all the pale decayed objects, not even the withered bridal dress on the collapsed form could have looked so like grave-clothes, or the long veil so like a shroud.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I described our nocturnal excursion to him, and since the panels were open, he could still catch a glimpse of this submerged continent.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Hence this element of the notion of Justice may seem, after all, to resolve itself into that discussed in § 2 : and in some states of society it certainly appears that the payment to be given for services is as completely fixed by usage as any other customary duty, so that it would be a clear disappointment of normal expectation to deviate from this usage.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In the early days of New England, the whole beans were frequently boiled for hours with not wholly pleasing results in forming either food or drink [377] .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The sun was sinking in the west, The birds sang sweet in ilka grove; His cheek to hers he fondly laid, And whisper'd thus his tale o' love: “O Jeanie fair, I lo'e thee dear; O canst thou think to fancy me, Or wilt thou leave thy mammie's cot, And learn to tent the farms wi' me? “At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge, Or naething else to trouble thee; But stray amang the heather-bells, And tent the waving corn wi' me.”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

—The defection of Nana equalized the parties; but Bala Rao, never partial to fighting, opportunely recollected a debt of gratitude to Lakwa, to whose clemency he owed his life when taken by storm in Gugal Chapra.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

As soon as we got the farm work reasonably well started, we directed our next efforts toward the industry of making bricks.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

God idea of, 14 ; no idea of except what we learn from reflection on our own faculties, 57 ; theory that God is cause of all motion and thought, causes being only occasions of his volition, 54 -57; by doctrine of necessity either there are no bad actions or God is the cause of evil, 78 -81.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

This, of course, is very confusing and it can be avoided only by shifting the position of the compass so as to bring the needle directly over “north” each time the boat’s course is altered as shown at C.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

792 The unfavorable climate in this case, deficiency of nourishment, exposure to the winds, and other causes, give rise to a stunted and dwarfish race, with some organ more developed than others, and having proportions often quite peculiar.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

A century’s experience has shown, that we double our numbers every twenty or twenty-five years.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

There was none in Rome in those days; or not enough to counteract the centrifugalism that simply did not care.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

The bigots of the University of Louvain, who still held out against the discoveries of Newton, excited the mob to insurrection against Joseph, as the enemy of religion; the Magyar landowners in Hungary resisted a system which extinguished the last vestiges of their national independence at the same time that it destroyed the harsh dominion which they themselves exercised over their peasantry.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The ash-pan was littered with burnt matches, ends of cigars and pipe tobacco, while the ash-crumbs speckled all dark objects, not excepting the green rug under his feet.
— from Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath

He could dwell on nothing else, there was no room in his mind for any thought but of that glory of manhood thus laid low, and of the anguish of the sweet face of the Princess.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Not that Cousin Roxy ever used the Dutch oven nowadays excepting to store things away in.
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester