Cf. Baudelaire: “Fourmillante cité, cité; pleine de rêves, Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant.” 63.
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Between the curving line of hotels and the lake is a broad avenue with lamps and a double rank of low shade trees.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 by Mark Twain

(Popular) Des riflards , old leaky shoes .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

There is a pronounced value in dramatic representation of literary selections.
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

[Pg 109] The huge eruptions of former and recent times have for ages sent down rivers of liquid stone and immeasurable clouds of fine black ashes, which have all hardened roughly into a conformation which is rugged but not wholly irregular, for the fissures mostly follow the downward direction of the slope, westward from the volcano.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

To gather together a few items of this power: she held the abbey of the king and from the king, which precluded a dependent relation on lords spiritual or temporal, and made her abbey what is termed a free abbey ( freies reichstift ).
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

There are other Combinations of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule, where four of them, or all five, are united in one Subject;--Like various Notes in Music, sounding together, and jointly composing one exquisite Piece of Harmony;-- Or like different Rays of Light, shining together in one Rainbow :
— from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Corbyn Morris

The pedlar had approached, intent on begging, and, if possible, larceny; but Wolf had quickly bared a double row of long, sharp teeth, which ceremony he had accompanied with an ominous growl, and this had completely daunted Autolycus, who had retreated with precipitation.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Dedicated IN THANKFULNESS TO THE MEMORY OF DEAR DAUGHTER DOROTHEA RAY OF LIGHT SONG OF JOY HEART OF LOVE 1888-1912 DOROTHEA
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke