Go a furlong ahead, I say, and look sharp.—These Misses Arthurets feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, and such-like acts—which my poor father used to say were filthy rags, but he dressed himself out with as many of them as most folk.—D—n that stumbling horse!
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

I took my breakfast down below, and when I came on deck I looked about, and far away I saw a little speck Upon the blue horizon, and I knew it was a sail.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various

Having risen late after a dance, I had spent the afternoon over a book, dined at home in my chambers in Charing Cross Mansions, and had afterwards gone out for an idle stroll across Leicester Square and up Piccadilly.
— from The Bond of Black by William Le Queux

From the centre of the body hangs a lotus leaf of emeralds, and from each of the four arms is suspended a lamp shaped like a Hindu pagoda, which throws out a mellow light.
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet

THE FIS ADAMNÁIN Its structural and literary superiority to other Visions before Dante—The general plan—Indications of composite authorship—Authorities followed by the writer of the Vision—The guide to the Otherworld—The author’s use of old Irish imagery—His ecclesiastical treatment of the subject—Pictorial grouping and imagery—Parallels to the Imrama—The Cockayne idea and the ascetic idea—The state described to continue to the Last Judgment only—Deferred Judgment of certain spirits and their Limbo—The soul’s progress through the seven Heavens—The Purgatorial theory—Dante parallels—Judgment—The fate of the reprobate—Insistence on the spiritual side of their sufferings—The further description of Hell apparently interpolated—The Bridge incident—Fourfold division of the souls—The punishments of the reprobate—Increasing minuteness of these descriptions by successive Vision writers—Attempts at classification—Dante parallels—Temporary punishment of certain sinners—The region of the damned after the Last Judgment—Characteristics of northern and southern writers respectively—The four rivers of Hell—Adamnán’s message—Enoch and Elias with the Bird-flocks about the Tree of Life—Rhapsodical description of Heaven 174-206 6.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

In fact, as I soon afterwards learnt, she had yielded to her father’s solicitations, rather than to the suit of the wooer; and had given a reluctant consent to the marriage.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

( d ) Varieties of stitches may be classified under two sections: one of stitches in which the thread is looped, as in chain stitch, knotted stitches, and button-hole {393} stitch; the other of stitches in which the thread is not looped, but lies flatly, as in short and long stitches—crewel or feather stitches as they are sometimes called,—darning stitches, tent and cross stitches, and satin stitch.
— from Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society