What To Wear In A Restaurant Restaurant dress depends upon the restaurant and the city.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

LA BLOTTIERE (Mademoiselle Merlin de), under the Restoration, a kind of dowager and canoness at Tours; in company with Mesdames Pauline Salomon de Villenoix and de Listomere, upheld, received and welcomed Francois Birotteau.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

He rose, gave his seat to M. de Boville, who took it without ceremony, and quickly drew up the required assignment, while the Englishman counted out the bank-notes on the other side of the desk.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

idual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principles of human equality.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In common worldly things 'tis called ungrateful With dull unwillingness to repay a debt Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent; Much more to be thus opposite with heaven, For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Indeed, those opinions would hardly seem to him directed upon the reality at all, and he would laugh at them as he might at the stock fortune-telling of some itinerant gypsy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And yet the dead, until they rise again, are said to be in death, but cannot be called dying.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When she had finished the little red heap, which soon disappeared under the rapid action of her hands, I asked her: “What may I offer you now?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

At that moment General Meade was in Atlanta, Georgia, commanding the Third Military District under the "Reconstruction Act;" and General Thomas, whose post was in Nashville, was in Washington on a court of inquiry investigating certain allegations against General A. B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The frigid monotony of winter has settled down upon that region, and now it is haunted only by sea fowl.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

Under Pope Gregory XIII (1572-84) there was for a time fair prosperity in States that had formerly suffered from more precarious tyrannies; but ere long "the taxes laid upon persons, property, and commerce, to replace the lost revenues of Christendom, dried up these resources"; and many cities fell into poverty.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

“The instant the kite shrivelled and disappeared I understood why the works were idle when the moon was not above the horizon, why birds flying across that fatal beam fell dead upon the rocks, and whence the terrible master of that mysterious mill derived the power of destruction that could wither an army as the Assyrian host in Byron’s poem “Melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.”
— from The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss

In common worldly things 'tis called ungrateful, With dull unwillingness to repay a debt Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent; Much more to be thus opposite with heaven, For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

By the autumn of 1903 Roosevelt had determined upon the route at Panama, the French company had become eager to sell, and the Colombians living on the Isthmus were anxious to have the negotiations ended and
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

When they had gone back down the road, their bare feet raising a cloud of thick dust which hid them from his view, Josè sank down upon the rock and buried his face in his hands.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

We have drawn upon the romancer and the historian to illustrate the subject; we have cited ancient documents, and copied contemporary pictures; we will call upon the poet to complete our labour.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

The Jews stood upon the summit, rolling down great stones and darts upon the Romans, as they strove to ascend.
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It was at the suggestion of the dying soldier that Colonel Floyd drew up the resolution, and the meeting a half century later was agreed upon.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

But he was silent and motionless—he did not know how long—before he turned to look at her, and saw her sunk back with closed eyes, like a lost, weary, storm-beaten white doe, unable to rise and pursue its unguided way.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot