Frank Churchill, of whom, in the eagerness of her conversation with Mrs. Weston, she had been seeing nothing, except that he had found a seat by Miss Fairfax, followed Mr. Cole, to add his very pressing entreaties; and as, in every respect, it suited Emma best to lead, she gave a very proper compliance.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

He said: his fasten’d hands the rudder keep, And, fix’d on heav’n, his eyes repel invading sleep.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Without making any effectual resistance, I suffered myself to be placed between two gentlemen of colossal dimensions; while a third, of a size larger, requesting pardon for the liberty he was about to take, threw himself upon my body at full length, and falling asleep in an instant, drowned all my guttural ejaculations for relief, in a snore which would have put to blush the roarings of the bull of Phalaris.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Even royalty is susceptible of a measure of distribution.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(2) The angry excitement roused in some animals when a scarlet or bright red cloth is shown to them.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And then because the moon was eclipsed, regarding it superstitiously as of evil portent, he stopped the army from starting.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Here then is an internal difference between the two triangles, which difference our understanding cannot describe as internal, and which only manifests itself by external relations in space.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Amongst aristocratic nations, an officer, independently of his rank in the army, also occupies an elevated rank in society; the former is almost always in his eyes only an appendage to the latter.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Barstow place on the Edgecombe Road is so honeycombed with sleeping porches, sun dials, swimming pools, bird baths, terraces, sunken
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber

But when I'm getting the eats regular I soon muscles up to 250 stripped.'
— from The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis

And then the priest had raised the gleaming monstrance on high, and all the people had bowed deeply: Qui vivis et regnas in sæcula sæculorum.
— from The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

Nor did Estelle realise it, save in fitful and fleeting agonies.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

The two species, the large S. saussurei , and the small S. oreopolus , as the latter is here understood, occur together over an extensive region in southern Mexico.
— from Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews by James S. (James Smith) Findley

Whatever the nature of the building which may be submitted to his criticism, if it be an edifice at all, if it be anything else than a mere heap of stones like a pyramid or breakwater, or than a large stone hewn into shape, like an obelisk, it will be instantly and easily resolvable into some of the parts which we have been hitherto considering: its pinnacles will separate themselves into their small shafts and roofs; its supporting members into shafts and arches, or walls penetrated by apertures of various shape, and supported by various kinds of buttresses.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

There were houses whose halls scarcely rose above the level of the soil; others which had been raised to a second or third floor; others, again, which had been carried as high as was intended, and even roofed in, suggesting skeletons or empty cages.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Now, clover seeds resemble their allies of the pea and bean tribe in being exceedingly rich in starch and other valuable foodstuffs.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen