The poet, by a somewhat similar mistake, made prize of a great piece of ice which he found in a sunless chasm of the mountains, and swore that it corresponded in all points with his idea of the Great Carbuncle.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The first forms, illustrated above, show change of pitch within a single word ; the forms you will work out for yourself should show a number of such inflections throughout the sentence.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Arrange it neatly and compactly under your hat, for if a stray curl or lock annoys you, or is blown across your eyes by the wind, your hands will be too fully occupied to remedy the difficulty.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

On the same page of the Times are other items which she remembers reading the day before; and the only explanation seems to be that her eyes then inattentively observed, so to speak, the death-item, which forthwith fell into a special corner of her memory, and came out as a visual hallucination when the peculiar modification of consciousness induced by the crystal-gazing set in.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

It seems to me that I have no really intuitive discrimination of the different past moments after the experience has gone on some little time, but that back of the 'specious present' they all fuse into a single conception of the kind of thing that has been going on, with a more or less clear sense of the total time it has lasted, this latter being based on an automatic counting of the successive pulses of thought by which the process is from moment to moment recognized as being always the same.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The old Greek story of Danae, who was confined by her father in a subterranean chamber or a brazen tower, but impregnated by Zeus, who reached her in the shape of a shower of gold, perhaps belongs to this class of tales.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He had had the fever in a secret colony of thirty lepers on one of the Hawaiian Islands.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Now Antanas Rudkus was the meekest man that God ever put on earth; and so Jurgis found it a striking confirmation of what the men all said, that his father had been at work only two days before he came home as bitter as any of them, and cursing Durham's with all the power of his soul.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Book of Enoch was unknown to Europe for a thousand years, when Bruce found in Abyssinia some copies of it in Ethiopic; it was translated by Archbishop Laurence in 1821, from the text in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The earl frowned, if a slight contraction of the eyebrows can be called a frown.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

36 Besides the corn collected from all parts of the surrounding country by plunder, and the provisions imported from Italy and Sicily, Cneius Octavius, propraetor, brought a vast quantity out of Sardinia from Tiberius Claudius the praetor, whose province Sardinia was; and not only were the granaries already built filled, but new ones were erected.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

There was nothing French in a single characteristic of his genius.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The rent of flats in these localities is lower than in other quarters of the town; while the difficulty is further met by each family preparing for itself a secret code of bell-ringing by means of which it is known whether the summons is genuine or not.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

( Throwing his stub into the fire in a sudden crescendo of fury )
— from Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Emlyn Williams

After that he thought football intensively, a strong color of Junior cock-sureness tinging all his thoughts.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

There are also many diaper patterns and a variety of borders of flowers, butterflies, dragons, sometimes in low relief, whilst often examples are met with in which the vases are recessed so as to furnish a flat surface in which the decorative painting of figures, flowers, and birds lies flat in a shaped compartment or reserve, which may be joo-e-shaped, leaf-shaped, kakemono-shaped, or makemono-shaped.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker