The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said—much praise and many comments—undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerably;—but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Instances of an official exemplification of coats of arms with labels are not uncommon, because the label in some number of families, for example Courtenay and Prideaux-Brune and Barrington, has become stereotyped into a charge.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A notice in large black letters crowned the frieze of the room with this warning: De esta fonda el cabecilla Al publico advierte Que nada dejen absolutamente Sobre alguna mesa ó silla.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Drury Lane was to be restored to its former classical renown; Shakespeare, Jonson, and Otway, with the expurgated muses of Vanbrugh, Congreve, and Wycherley, were to be reinaugurated in their rightful dominion over British audiences; and the Herculean process was to commence, by exterminating the speaking monsters imported from the banks of the Danube, compared with which their mute relations, the emigrants from Exeter 'Change, and Polito (late Pidcock's) show-carts, were tame and inoffensive.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life, and know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant, and pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The above dish resembles ragoût fin en coquille , a popular Continental dish, although its principal ingredients are sweetbreads instead of brains.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

On the thirty-sixth year after the first tribunes, ten were elected, two from each class; and provision was made that they should be elected in this manner for the future.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But the soldier always hopes to command, and never attains this, for even captains and princes are ever slaves and dependants; still he ever hopes and ever works to attain this.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He received tribute from Egypt, conquered a part of Arabia, and received the homage of the king of Meroe , who made a journey from Ethiopia to bow before him.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The woolly substance on the branch of the oak which we have described was similarly constituted with the bedeguar of the rose, with this difference, that instead of the individual cells being diffused irregularly through the mass, they were all arranged at the off-goings of the leaf-stalks, each cell being surrounded with a covering of the vegetable wool, which the stimulus of the parent egg, or its gluten, had caused to grow, and from each cell a perfect fly had issued.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

On every side great liners lay, ablaze with light from every cabin and porthole.
— from Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator by J. W. Duffield

We are compelled to condense the following offers for exchange: Coins and postage stamps.
— from Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Flour rose as high as $50 a sack, and one day a small quantity sold for eighty cents a pound.
— from A Gold Hunter's Experience by Chalkley J. Hambleton

Year after year, with tranquil perseverance, he heaped up on every side of him all the beautiful objects on which he could lay hands—pictures, miniatures, furniture, enamels, china and plate, bronzes, and coats of armour—until his storehouses were full to overflowing of treasures which, except for the pleasure of procuring them, he could hardly ever have enjoyed.
— from Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector by George Somes Layard

I will if there is a chance of my friends, Esther Crippen and Polly O'Neill, coming home for the holidays.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Margaret Vandercook

I would gladly have pursued the conversation, which was opening a flood of light upon my political understanding; but just then, a fellow with the air of a footman entered, carrying a packet tied to the end of his cauda.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

Then a solemn hymn was chanted as the curtain was raised; and while the assembled multitude watched it rise in reverent silence, the temple-servants lighted the lamps that illuminated the sanctuary from every cornice and pillar.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers

How, for example, could a Protestant of the nineteenth century, with whom religion and morality are inseparably combined—with whom conscience is always both moral and religious—how could he, guided only by his own experience, represent, or give credit to that entire separation of the two modes of feeling, moral and religious, which encounters us frequently in the middle ages, and constantly in the Pagan world?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various