Chappe had to escape, and get a new Legislative Decree.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The young Rāja held out great encouragement, and got a number of adventurers of that caste to accompany him back, to whom he gave large grants of waste land, and told them to pitch upon such spots of ground as met with their approbation, and [ 385 ] they fixed upon the forts, districts, and villages belonging to the Kurubavāru caste, which consisted of twenty-four forts, eighty-one districts, and one thousand and nine hundred villages.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Gerty stifled a smothered exclamation and gave a nervous cough and Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Yes, madam, if you are certain of giving me an exact description of the expression of her features.” We exchanged a glance, and no more was said about it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

—A retired rural policeman of the Tintagel country, where he was born and reared, and now keeper of the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery at Newlyn, offered this testimony from Tintagel:—‘In Tintagel I used to sit round the fire at night and hear old women tell so much about piskies and ghosts that I was then afraid to go out of doors after darkness had fallen.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

"The author can and does write well; the descriptions of scenery are particularly effective, always graphic, and never overstrained."
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 by Various

“You are young and hot-headed,” returned Pathfinder, with a dignity that impressed his listeners with a keen sense of his moral superiority; “but my life has been passed among dangers of this sort, and my experience and gifts are not to be mastered by the impatience of a boy.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

"Why no, I don't think that, — of course I have," Elizabeth answered gravely, and not without a shade of displeasure at the question.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

Her talk is just as easy and graceful and natural as herself, and, moreover, it is always in season.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

“This excellent and handy rifle was made by Thomas Fletcher, of Gloucester, and accompanied me like a faithful dog throughout my journey of nearly five years to the Albert Nyanza, and returned with me to England as good as new.”
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

―The Vienna Congress of 1814, 1815, had assigned it the difficult task of righting the sorely disturbed political affairs of Europe and giving a new shape to the territorial and dynastic relations.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Though conversation in its better part May be esteemed a gift, and not an art, Yet much depends, as in the tiller’s toil, On culture and the sowing of the soil.
— from The Mentor A little book for the guidance of such men and boys as would appear to advantage in the society of persons of the better sort by Alfred Ayres

In its streets were to be heard, in addition to the English, nearly all the dialects of the German between the Rhine and the Danube; the Low Dutch as spoken by the common country people on the manor of Rensselaerwyck, the Erse and Gaelic, as not unfrequently used by the large proportion of its Irish and Scotch, and what seemed quite as striking to one brought up in seclusion from it, the genuine Yankee, as discoursed by [Pg 160] the increasing class of factory wood choppers, teamsters, schoolmasters, men out at the elbows, and travelling wits.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

It was all eloquence, and generous and noble thought.”
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker