SECOND POET: Eight bleeding brigand carcasses strew the pavements there--all slit open with sword-gashes!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Attempts have been made to retain in the beans the volatile products, which normally escape, both by coating previous to roasting
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It seems an easier and shorter way to dignity, to observe that—since there never was a true story which could not be told in parables, where you might put a monkey for a margrave, and vice versa—whatever has been or is to be narrated by me about low people, may be ennobled by being considered a parable; so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view, the reader may have the relief of regarding them as not more than figuratively ungenteel, and may feel himself virtually in company with persons of some style.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Then there was old Mr. Turveydrop downstairs, in a state of deportment not to be expressed, benignly blessing Caddy and giving my guardian to understand that his son's happiness was his own parental work and that he sacrificed personal considerations to ensure it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But others saw and felt the new charm; for no deep experience bravely borne can fail to leave its mark, often giving power in return for patience, and lending a subtle loveliness to faces whose bloom it has destroyed.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Virtue, fortitude, holiness, truthfulness, loyalty, high ideals—these, and all the related qualities that are named in the dictionary, are made of the elementals, by blendings, combinations, and shadings of the elementals, just as one makes green by blending blue and yellow, and makes several shades and tints of red by modifying the elemental red.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

We have marvelled at the illustrations with which history abounds of the General Will rising to heights of which but few of the individual citizens in whom it is embodied have ever before been conscious even in their dreams.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

While Jones was kissing and mumbling the book, as if he had an excellent brown buttered crust in his mouth or as if he had really been a book-worm, or an author who had nothing to eat but his own works, a piece of paper fell from its leaves to the ground, which Partridge took up, and delivered to Jones, who presently perceived it to be a bank-bill.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Implore, supplicate, pray, entreat, beg, beseech, conjure, ADJURE , importune, solicit, call upon, pray to, appeal to, prefer a request to.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

The Prince answered the courtesy of the Spaniard with equal, but barren, courtesy; for it was obvious that no definite result could be derived from such informal negotiations.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

A broad pathway leads up to the first cave, which is a finely arched cavern at the foot of the mountain, the entrance being beautifully carved and decorated.
— from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Toby Rubovits , Chicago, Ill. Electrotypers Blomgren Brothers Co. , Chicago, Ill.
— from Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 by Harry Lawrence Gage

The third, on January 24 following, brought on the Dogger Bank action, the first encounter between battle cruisers, and one of the two capital ship actions of the war.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

She was fair and fragile, and had been exceedingly beautiful; but care had stamped his mark deeply in her brow.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Bullfinches ( Pyrrhula vulgaris ) injure our fruit-trees by devouring the flower-buds, and a pair of these birds have been seen "to denude a large plum-tree in a couple of days of almost every bud;" but certain varieties 32 of the apple and thorn ( Cratægus oxyacantha ) are more especially liable to be attacked.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

By that time his Mother was married to the Suitor who had put in so early; but being cunning (as most Widows are) she had reserved her Sons Estate entire, and not only so, but a considerable part of her own; 284 so that her Husband had not above one third part of the whole.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman

Thus far I have been tracing the steps of the process by which the worker of nefarious arts starts by employing for nefarious purposes means which any one could use if he would, and ends by being credited with a power peculiar to himself of working impossibilities.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons