de Beauseant’s young, handsome, and well-dressed cousin, who seemed to have no eyes for any one else.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

If you do not find the parlor wall big enough for all of England's history, continue it into the dining-room and into other rooms.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Thus at Saldern, near Wolfenbuttel, when the rye has been reaped, three sheaves are tied together with a rope so as to make a puppet with the corn ears for a head.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

As Jones had not this gift from nature, he was too young to have gained it by experience; for at the diffident wisdom which is to be acquired this way, we seldom arrive till very late in life; which is perhaps the reason why some old men are apt to despise the understandings of all those who are a little younger than themselves.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Even the slightest word of encouragement from Alexander Petrovitch could throw a lad into a transport of tremulous joy, and arouse in him an honourable emulation of his fellows.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

But as, by the regulation, twelve such pence are ordered to exchange for a shilling, they are in the market considered as worth a shilling, and a shilling can at any time be had for them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Now Greece gives way, and great Epigeus falls; Agacleus' son, from Budium's lofty walls; Who chased for murder thence a suppliant came To Peleus, and the silver-footed dame; Now sent to Troy, Achilles' arms to aid, He pays due vengeance to his kinsman's shade.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Extract from a picture by DOMENICO TINTORETTO in the Ducal Palace at Venice, representing the same GALLEY-FIGHT.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It would have been good-natured except for a look in the eyes, which shone with a watery, mawkish light under almost white, blinking eyelashes.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It would always be easier for a woman to say, “Yea” than “Nay” to the Friar.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

This is easily recognized either by the thin blue line of a stream emerging from a lake, or by comparing the nearest heights shown on the dotted lines or some marked point.
— from Ski-running by Katharine Furse

Each candidate elected to active membership shall pay an admission fee of eight dollars, and on such payment shall be exempt from the annual dues of the current year.—The admission fee and annual dues of members under twenty-one years of age shall be half the above rates.—Members elected later than September of any year shall be exempt from annual dues of the year following.—Persons elected to active membership shall pay the admission fee within two months of their election
— from Going Afoot: A book on walking. by Bayard Henderson Christy

"Neither an anæmic appearance nor a blood-count is alone enough for a certain diagnosis.
— from Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

William Gore, Esq ; Francis Ashton, Esq ; Mr. John Flamstead, Ast.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Small green things which lured one to colic were offered by the cool coolies for twopence each—a sum that would have been exorbitant for a gross had they not borne the hall-mark of siege peaches.
— from The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters by T. Phelan

Charlie looked intently with both eyes, and he wished that his ears also could be eyes for a little while.
— from The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Rand

What does the pottery-painter of to-day care for the coat of arms or the religious subject he may be commissioned to execute for a dinner service
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida