the eye of a moderate Size, the puple of a deep Sea green encircled with a ring of yellowish brown.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

You show me your horses.” After walking about the garden, visiting the stable, and even doing some gymnastic exercises together on the parallel bars, Levin returned to the house with his guest, and went with him into the drawing-room.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At his departure he did very graciously thank all the soldiers of the brigades that had been at this overthrow, and sent them back to their winter-quarters in their several stations and garrisons; the decumane legion only excepted, whom in the field on that day he saw do some great exploit, and their captains also, whom he brought along with himself unto Grangousier.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He hoped that by remaining where he was, he might do some good, even there; at all events, others depended too much on his uncle’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ma per quella virtu` per cu' io movo li passi miei per si` selvaggia strada, danne un de' tuoi, a cui noi siamo a provo, e che ne mostri la` dove si guada e che porti costui in su la groppa, che' non e` spirto che per l'aere vada>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

My darling sister gave every promise of becoming a magnificent woman—her shoulders were already wide—her arms well shaped, although still thin—her waist small—the swell of the hips already well developed—as to her bottom, it stuck out well and hard behind, quite charming to see, and giving promise of very ample dimensions hereafter.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

In the interview which followed between him and Mrs. Reed, I presume, from after-occurrences, that the apothecary ventured to recommend my being sent to school; and the recommendation was no doubt readily enough adopted; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, asleep, “Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Midshipman R.N.R. Charles E. F. St. John Herbert J. Anchor George D. Scott George E. D. Billam D. N. White C. C. Lawrence
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

Some days after the death of the king, Don Sancho, great excitement could be noticed in Zamora and its neighbourhood.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

As he gazed into the dark red throat he felt that the wild fictions of untravelled men fell far short of the facts of actual life, in regard to grandeur and horribility, and it struck him that if the front half of a hippopotamus were sewed to the rear half of a crocodile there would be produced a monster incomparably more grand and horrible than the fiercest dragon St. George ever slew!
— from Hunting the Lions by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

D. See Gibbon (Edward) .
— from A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909 by Methuen & Co.