But all the results of the chase were not made into preserved provisions; and as the game kept perfectly in the intense cold, wild duck and other fowl were eaten fresh, and declared superior to all other aquatic birds in the known world.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Life lies before us as a huge quarry before 20 the architect; and he deserves not the name of architect except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, fitness and durability, some form the pattern of which originated in his own soul.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A more careful consideration of the distinguishing characteristics of the lee and the weather "gage," [3] directed to their essential features and disregarding secondary details, will show that this is a mistake.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round, and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to banish the spleen; while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbour, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as familiar a luxury as those of his own.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Here we spent an hour eating fish and drinking saké , and vowing eternal friendship with the Kaga clansmen, with whom previous to this visit we had had no intercourse whatever.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

I was most uncommonly shocked, indeed!—Poor Edward!—he has done for himself completely—shut himself out for ever from all decent society!—but, as I directly said to my mother, I am not in the least surprised at it; from his style of education, it was always to be expected.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

escapade , f. , action de s'échapper d'un lieu, de manquer à une obligation.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

This latter fancy may have been strengthened by the sight of young shoots springing out of the old, apparently dead, wood, even from a decaying stump, or a hole entirely hollow, and charred perchance by fire.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Among Mammals the Rhinoceros javanicus is the most striking example, for a distinct species is found in Borneo and Sumatra, while the Javanese species occurs in Burma and even in Bengal.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

The Surprising Adventures of Bartholemy Portuguez As we have seen that the buccaneers were mainly English, French, and Dutch sailors, who were united to make a common piratical warfare upon the Spaniards in the West Indies, it may seem a little strange to find a man from Portugal who seemed to be on the wrong side of this peculiar fight which was going on in the new world between the sailors of Northern and Southern Europe.
— from Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank Richard Stockton

Despair is in every face, and death sits threatening in every surge.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales by W. B. Cramp

"'That's good enough for a dog,' says Tutt, stickin' his gun back in the scabbard; 'an' now we proceeds with the orig'nal baite.'
— from Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

It is a poor kind of argument at best; one man acting unwisely is no excuse for another doing so likewise.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

“Is the fair fame of the men of Ulster,” he asked, “to be traduced, is their unswerving loyalty to the Crown and Constitution to be impeached, on the strength of irresponsible scribblings emanating from a Dublin slum?”
— from The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

It would undoubtedly help; for under a more popular Government it would be easier for a different spirit in the German nation to assert itself.
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir