I cannot but turn aside, while thus speaking of illustrious men, to observe that St. Michael’s, Crooked Lane, contains also the ashes of that doughty champion, William Walworth, Knight, who so manfully clove down the sturdy wight, Wat Tyler, in Smithfield—a hero worthy of honorable blazon, as almost the only Lord Mayor on record famous for deeds of arms, the sovereigns of Cockney being generally renowned as the most pacific of all potentates.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

It swaggered, scowling, back and forth on its short legs just as it had seen her do on her long ones, and now and then snarling viciously, exposing its teeth, with a threatening lift of its upper lip and bristling moustache; and when it thought it was impressing the visitors, it would spread its mouth wide and do that screechy cry which it meant
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I will now explain the beautiful rule by which we determine the size of a square that shall have the same area as a Greek cross, for it is applicable, and necessary, to the solution of almost every dissection puzzle that we meet with.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He does [Pg 389] not desire the sacrifice of a slaughtered beast, but He desires the sacrifice of a contrite heart.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Some got girt-lines up for riding down the stays and back-stays, and others tarred the shrouds, lifts, etc., laying out on the yards, and coming down the rigging.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

We have many most respectable and worthy young women who do the same and are employed by the nobility, because, being the daughters of gentlemen, they are both well bred and accomplished, you know," said Miss Kate in a patronizing tone that hurt Meg's pride, and made her work seem not only more distasteful, but degrading.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

They wallow [Pg 45] amid the dust, working it over and over, and searching it like diamond-hunters, and after a time their baskets are filled with the precious flour, which is probably only a certain part of the wood, doubtless the soft, nutritious inner bark.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

Madame Vernet, searching for him in that neighbourhood a little while after, declared that she tried the garden-gate and found it rusty and immovable.
— from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

This was done by a system of canals, in which the supply of water, drawn from the overflow of the Tigris and Euphrates during the spring floods, was stored up to be used when needed.
— from The Two Great Retreats of History by George Grote

The result in this case is a reduction in the quantity of steam required to develop the same indicated horsepower.
— from Steam Engines by Anonymous

If ever a woman came into a convent with a sincere desire to serve God, I did.”
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.

Thus in April, 1917, the British service made 280,000 pictures at the front, and a great part of all flying was done to secure photographs.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

Yet I proved that until I had myself unlocked the massive metal door, not a bolt nor bar had been disturbed; the seals upon the lock had been intact.
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Yoga enables the devotee to switch off or on, at will, life current from the five sense telephones of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda