Laura was more in the shadow and stood for an instant, long enough for the Colonel to make the inward observation that she was a magnificent Woman.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Dierum spatia ultra nostri orbis mensuram; nox clara et extrema Britanniae parte brevis, ut finem atque initium lucis exiguo discrimine internoscas.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I would go without shirts or shoes, Friends, tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The angle which it formed with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty creatures called the passers-by.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Parmi mes bons souvenirs, je pense à ma première publication sur le web: celle de mon bookmark sur le site ForInt Law (Foreign and International Law), en 1996, grâce
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

When they were within a dozen paces of each other, one of the women stopped for an instant, looked eagerly at the strange lady, shook off the nurse's grasp on her, and the next moment rushed into Miss Halcombe's arms.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Alma is making herself a new dress skirt, as she has Miss J.'s wool dress nearly finished, and it looks exceedingly well, fitting, as some one remarks, "like the paper on [Pg 213] the wall."
— from A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

By this time the candle in the socket high up out of reach was flickering and flaring at its last ebb and throwing great shadows on the walls; and once, as he looked round the room, disturbed by some movement of Fordingbridge's, he saw that the latter was sitting up on his bed peering at him with his great hollow vacant eyes, in which the glare of madness was almost intensified by the unsteady waverings of the candle's flame.
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Tinker laid his head in my lap, and we both disposed ourselves for an idle, luxurious evening.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

He himself stood forth as its living expression.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

But how to describe this as a hull, its immensity, its concentrated might of material, practical beauty and use, that moves the world with its volume and power— Or the more wonderful forces and influences that arise from it, like a gold mist seek [Pg 240] in' the Heavens, to fall in showers of blessin's to the uttermost ends of the earth—knowledge, wisdom, and beauty, of Freedom, and Individual Liberty, Educational, Moral, and Beneficent influences—who is a-goin' to describe all this?
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

The old interpretation of the Song of Solomon supplied him with a model after which to form his conceptions, and by a further adaptation it led every nun to greet her bridegroom in Christ and every monk to greet his bride in the Virgin.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

The blood came slowly and imperceptibly to her cheek; and her eyes, hitherto glazed, fixed, and inexpressive, looked enquiringly, yet with stupid wonderment, around.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

Under the Republic the provincial communities had been grouped into the three classes, free and federate ( liberae et foederatae ), free and immune ( liberae et immunes ), and tributary ( stipendiariae ).
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak