Clambering up her skirts were the little white roofs of La Guayra, spots on her verdant garment,—irregular spots here, there, and everywhere; now in patches, comfortably huddling together at her feet; now stray offshoots away beyond.
— from Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main by Ida May Hill Starr

If there had ever been a time when every nerve in Protestant Christendom should be strained to weld all those provinces together into one great commonwealth, as a bulwark for European liberty, rather than to allow them to be broken into stepping-stones, over which absolutism could stride across France and Holland into England, that moment had arrived.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

By opening the ports of Damascus, Tripoli, Joppa, Acre, etcetera, the whole of the commerce of Turkey, Egypt, and the Mediterranean will be in the hands of those, who, even now in part, control the commerce of Europe.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

[331] Discursus status religionis, 1605: 'Ipsi magnates non verentur se profiteri catholicos et plerique alii ex nobilitate, praecipue in principatu Walliae et in provinciis septentrionalibus,—ubi numerus eorum non ita pridem crevit in immensum.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

The character of his works differs essentially from that both of the French and the Dutch schools; he was employed, not in painting cabinet pictures for wealthy merchants, but in designing great altar pieces for splendid churches, or commemorating the glory of sovereigns in imperial galleries.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

“So it might, if it had not earned a little extra notoriety in police courts,” said he, with a laugh of intense bitterness.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

I'm saving every nickel I possibly can, Lite, and you know what for.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower