No woman, however large, could have had a more exquisite boudoir [dressing room] and bed-chamber combined.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

And my money, as was my own father's gift, and not yours, Mr. Glegg; and I've saved it, and added to it myself, and had more to put out almost every year, and it's to go and be sunk in other folks' furniture, and encourage 'em in luxury and extravagance as they've no means of supporting; and I'm to alter my will, or have a codicil made, and leave two or three hundred less behind me when I die,–me as have allays done right and been careful, and the eldest o' the family; and my money's to go and be squandered on them as have had the same chance as me, only they've been wicked and wasteful.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She 342 wore a dress of rich shot silk, dark red and black, cut square in front, with a stomacher of white lace and a pretty little cameo brooch.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

And the Hebrew is the only language of those ages that has lived to the present time, preserving the record of a divine revelation, and being conserved by it through the vicissitudes of conflict, conquest, captivity, and dispersion; while the surrounding idolatrous nations perished in their own corruption, and their languages and literature were buried in oblivion.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The problem being, among a number of other things thought as successive, but simultaneously thought, to determine which is first and which last, he says: "After each distinct representation, a b c d, there may intervene the representation of that movement of attention of which we are aware in passing from one object to another.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The disposition of the mind in contributing towards this and allied delusions requires a brief comment.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe

“He did runned after bofe : ’cause they went the same way!
— from Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

We did not see anything of the familiar dark red American box car and the giant American locomotives until we got into the interior of France.
— from In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Edward Alva Trueblood

For example, he can take the short direct route, A, B, C, D, E, F, in a straight line; or he can go one of the long routes, such as A, B, D, C, B, C, E, D, E, F. It will be noted that he has optional lines between certain stations, and his selections of these lead to variations of the complete route.
— from The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

"Similar, also, was the language of the stern Tertullian: `In truth, the world becomes day after day richer and better cultivated; even the islands are no longer solitudes; the rocks have no more terrors for the navigator; everywhere there are habitations, population, law, and life.'
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

At this time the top-gallant sails of the Foam might be discovered from the deck, resembling a boat clinging to the watery horizon.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper