“'Pax vobiscum!'” said the pseudo friar, and was endeavouring to hurry past, when a soft voice replied, “'Et vobis—quaso, domine reverendissime, pro misericordia vestra'.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side cleaning windows, dusting rooms, putting beds in order, and what not.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

What effect does reserve power have on an audience?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And on the last day, Richard, perfectly limp, did nothing but cry and repeat every minute: ‘This is my happiest day.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dowsers , men who profess to tell fortunes, and who, by the use of the divining rod, pretend to be able to discover treasure-trove.— Cornish.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Et dic, Roma perit: regnabit sanguine multo, Ad regnum quisquis venit ab exsilio.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Along its hideous length are seated at regular intervals nine winged devils, representing probably antagonists of the nine Sephiroth [ 254 ] or Æons of the Gnostic theology.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

» Quelle fâcheuse coutume cet homme avait-il?--Avait-il également l'habitude de rendre promptement l'argent prêté?--Comment fallait-il toujours s'y prendre avec lui pour se faire rembourser?--Quel moyen l'ami a-t-il enfin inventé pour rentrer dans ses frais?--L'emprunteur a-t-il pris
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Rivet or cone wheat, a heavy cropping bearded variety much grown by small holders,—since the sparrow, which would ruin small plots of any other variety, seems to dislike Rivet, possibly on account of its beard,—is the weakest of all wheats, and is only marked at 20, which means that bread baked 56 from Rivet flour alone would be practically unsaleable.
— from The Story of a Loaf of Bread by T. B. (Thomas Barlow) Wood

Mr. Wendover had drily recommended [Pg 419] Elsmere to cultivate Madame de Netteville.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He was the first in that part of the country to do it to any extent, and his enterprise had begun to benefit the whole district, raising prices, and bringing in capital.
— from The Bridal March; One Day by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Henceforth persecuted or discontented religionists, prompted by a motive vastly more strenuous and enduring than cupidity, were to bear the main brunt of breaking a way into the wilderness.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

It has Maple’s floral paper, a design that is just as pretty as ever it can be; the paint is all cream-coloured and ‘flatted,’ so that it washes just as a boarded floor does; there is a red and white matting dado, a dado rail painted cream-colour, and the cretonne, also Maple’s, at 1 s. 4½
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

"Doubtless," remarked Philip, "--for a Political who comes with the swallows and summer.
— from Miss Stuart's Legacy by Flora Annie Webster Steel