Here, behind the white iron railings, once a rose-tree grew; it is gone now, but a little bit of evergreen, from a neighboring grave, stretches out its green tendrils, and makes some appearance; there rests a very unhappy man, and yet while he lived he might be said to occupy a very good position.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then fear and numbing grief subdued The senses of the multitude.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But the great majority of people are born right-handed, consequently the right hand being especially the instrument of the mind in the majority of people, the left hemisphere is the leading hemisphere; and since probably specialisation of function of the right hand (dexterity) has been so closely associated with that other instrument of the mind, the vocal instrument of articulate speech, the two have now become inseparable; for are not graphic signs and verbal signs intimately pagenumber interwoven in the development of language and human intelligence?
— from The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

“On this, perhaps the only Friday morning of the year when we could miss breakfast and stay in bed our energetic friend, Sue, has to sound a triple alarm and fire a nineteen gun salute!
— from Mimi at Sheridan School by Anne Pence Davis

1873, p. 154) forms a new genus said to resemble more nearly some American forms.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

The great scale, properly elaborated in practice, accomplishes wonders: it equalizes the voice, makes it flexible and noble, gives strength to all weak places, operates to repair all faults and breaks that exist, and controls the voice to the very heart.
— from How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Lilli Lehmann

As the showers however, though frequent, are not, generally speaking, of very long duration, this inconvenience may be easily guarded against.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

But no, they could not be, because the flowers are not "green"; so Sharley answered that she thought they must be beautiful trees with which the earth is covered; for their brightly coloured leaves, especially in autumn, are as gay as wreaths of flowers, with their many shades of red and brown, as well as "various green."
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

She looked into it and said: "If you're not keerful when you git your money, you'll lose it, but which otherwise you will not, and fifty cents is as cheap as I kin afford to tell anybody's fortune, and no great shakes made then."
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

If the endeavour of Dr. Abendanon to found a native girls' school, should fail, which Heaven forbid, and I should not become a teacher after all; then you will not desert me Moedertje, will you?
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

Among the queer names of foundlings are “Nameless,” “Godsend,” “Subpoena,” and “Moyses and Aaron, two children found,” not in the bulrushes, but “in the street.”
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang