Any departure from either color or shape would be instantly taken note of.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

We have preserved them, nevertheless, as affording at once a touching and a convincing proof of the estimation in which he was held by every class of society, and the case with which he made his way to their hearts and feelings.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

They would also have abundance of clothing, and bedding, and dwellings, and utensils either capable of standing on the fire or not; for the plastic and weaving arts do not require any use of iron: and God has given these two arts to man in order to provide him with all such things, that, when reduced to the last extremity, the human race may still grow and increase.
— from Laws by Plato

Sir, if it may stand with your good liking, I will ease Carpalin of some parcel of his labour, and invite Bridlegoose myself, with whom I of a long time have had a very intimate familiarity, and unto whom I am to speak on the behalf of a pretty hopeful youth who now studieth at Toulouse, under the most learned virtuous doctor Boissonet.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

(Father passed on at Calcutta in 1942, at the age of eighty-nine.) 42-8: The hundreds of thousands of Indian sadhus are controlled by an executive committee of seven leaders, representing seven large sections of India.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

[ 35 ] Those who had not expected this result, like all despotic masters, regarded as a wrong every complaint, every protest, and punished it with death, endeavoring thus to stifle every cry of sorrow with blood, and they made mistake after mistake.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Drying Coffee in the Sun at the Custom-House, Harar, Abyssinia In Java, free labor is generally employed; while on the east coast of Sumatra the work is done by contract, the workers usually being bound for three years.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"Ah," she answered, "this is not my form; human eyes can only see me in this state of ugliness, but that thou mayst know what I am like, look in the mirror it does not let itself be misled it will show thee my image as it is in truth."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

By their very nature they transfer the respect of every class of subjects from their immediate sovereign to the paramount authority and its subordinate agents.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But, no sooner had the man's words penetrated to the cell of Ivan Petrofsky, that the exile called out something.
— from Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton

From a broader view he was their technically trained, highly efficient chief of staff.
— from Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager by Charles De Lano Hine

The two latter gave him their entire confidence, often showing him their dispatches, and freely discussing with him the interests of their respective governments.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

But as this war had been remarkable for the sudden changes of fortune it displayed; and as every calculation of state policy had been frequently baffled by some unforeseen event, in this case also the issue disappointed expectation; and after a brief crisis, the fallen power of Austria rose again to a formidable strength.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

[289] It may also be supposed that as the earlier expeditions consisting of several ships had failed to find the land they were looking for, Cabot as a practical seaman wished to make a pioneer expedition with a small swift-sailing craft and a picked crew, before again embarking on a large and costly undertaking.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

{72} Its Banks on both sides are cover’d with tall Trees, especially Cedars, of so vast a Bulk that they make Canoes out of a single Trunk, which row with twenty Oars.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

Taking another point of view, it was obviously to von Spee's advantage to hasten round to the east coast of South America as quickly as possible after the action off Coronel took place, and thus to reap the full benefit of the success that he had already gained.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

In your charity, pray for the soul of Edward Curr, of St. Heliers."
— from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth