On the other hand, the two letters U. F. were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named Ursule.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The form and use of this weapon are clearly described by Procopius, (in tom. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The demand may be for anything under the sun.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Aloe (al′ō), the name of a number of plants belonging to the genus Aloë (ord. Liliaceæ), some of which are not more than a few inches, whilst others are 30 feet and upwards in height; natives of South Africa and Socotra; leaves fleshy, thick, and more or less spinous at the edges or extremity; flowers with a tubular corolla.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And if thou wilt carry a message for me as far as Umballa, I will give thee money.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

To the fair wood that fringed the tide Came Daśaratha's son, and cried: “At length, my lord Sugríva, we Have reached King Varuṇ's realm the sea, And one great thought, still-vexing, how To cross the flood, awaits us now.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[“Their veins full, as usual, of yesterday’s wine.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But, when the eyes are to be made, the artificer is to have a good gratification, [ 168 ] besides the first agreed upon reward.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

I remember those bathing-excursions to the New-River, which L. recalls with such relish, better, I think, than he can—for he was a home-seeking lad, and did not much care for such water-pastimes:—How merrily we would sally forth into the fields; and strip under the first warmth of the sun; and wanton like young dace in the streams; getting us appetites for noon, which those of us that were pennyless (our scanty morning crust long since exhausted) had not the means of allaying—while the cattle, and the birds, and the fishes, were at feed about us, and we had nothing to satisfy our cravings—the very beauty of the day, and the exercise of the pastime, and the sense of liberty, setting a keener edge upon them!—How faint and languid, finally, we would return, towards nightfall, to our desired morsel, half-rejoicing, half-reluctant, that the hours of our uneasy liberty had expired!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But, by that Power which makes me to pursue The rugged journey whereupon I fare, Accord us one of thine to keep in view, That he may show where lies the ford, and bear
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

All further operations with the fleet appearing unlikely, he made up his mind to go back to France for a while to join the French army, and fight in the war which seemed about to take place on English soil.
— from Harper's Young People, November 16, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

And what a thrill he gets as the brown ball of feathers suddenly flutters up from almost underfoot among the crisp autumn leaves, dodging up through the branches with a whistled note of warning, and flies away over the treetops!
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

She looked at the fire and understood what had happened, went off for fresh sticks, laid and new-lit the fire in a few seconds, and then confronted him, and asked him if he wanted anything else.
— from Mrs. Dorriman: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Chetwynd, Henry Wayland, Mrs.

An extremely faint and unreliable observation (Vogel).
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

As the senses become dull, the nervous system slow, and the whole body unfit for active uses, the old man necessarily falls into constant abstraction.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

That a frown from her was sweeter than the perpetual smile of another woman; that he loved a woman of spirit; that she would find him on the morrow in the dust at her feet as usual; that the sensation he experienced while being trampled upon could only [Pg 248] be likened unto that of being borne aloft on wings, etc.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

But discretion was now the sensible course for Herbert, and he wisely restrained himself from an unbecoming demonstration of hostility.
— from The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey

Their fresh and unperverted senses rendered them keenly alive to what was beautiful and natural.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

Footprints are usually left to the police to interpret.
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

As he looked at it his words died on his lips, and then rushed on anew in fresh and uncontrolled fury—“How dare you say he’s a thief—how dare you?”
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln