The family included several children; a daughter Gunhild (b. 1837), married Halvor Halvorson of Mt. Horeb in 1856.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Yes... see...” He opened a door, and I saw a big room with four columns, an old piano, and a heap of peas on the floor; it smelt cold and damp.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds, flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light-blue coat and white under-clothes, screaming and chattering, bobbing and nodding and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

For the waters remain not formless and invisible, seeing we behold them flowing in so comely a manner.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We must bind And keep you fast, my Rosalind, Fast, fast, my wild-eyed Rosalind, And clip your wings, and make you love: When we have lured you from above, And that delight of frolic flight, by day or night, From North to South; We'll bind you fast in silken cords, And kiss away the bitter words From off your rosy mouth.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Behind the head of the bed, and concealed by a stone fitting in so closely as to defy all suspicion, was a hollow space, and in this space a ladder of cords between twenty-five and thirty feet in length.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

" The farrier was puffing his pipe rather fiercely, in some contempt at this trivial discussion.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Nevertheless she had heard a race was issuing of the blood of [Pg 2] [20-53] Troy, which sometime should overthrow her Tyrian citadel; from it should come a people, lord of lands and tyrannous in war, the destroyer of Libya: so rolled the destinies.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

When my daughter comes in and touches my forehead with her lips I shudder as though a bee had stung my forehead, I smile constrainedly and turn away my face.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"The only fault to be found with you," con [ 133 ] tinued the ober-lieutenant, "is that you had the misfortune to be found in such company, and that later on your tongue might prove too long and ready.
— from Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

“You are done for, indeed,” said Cuillen, and she smiled a hairy and twisty and fangy smile that almost finished Cona’n.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

King and women and desert and all vanished out of his mind, as if the sentiment that suddenly seized it filled it so completely as to leave room for nothing else.
— from A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the Dusk by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Livius uses this term even in the earlier books of his History, but perhaps not with strict correctness, for in some cases at least he makes the term nobility equivalent to the patricians.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

The floor is slightly convex, and includes a triangular central mountain, on which there is a small crater.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

Among the scattered rocks are patches of shell-strewn sand on which the surf falls in silvery cascades as the tide 240 comes rolling landward.
— from On Old-World Highways A Book of Motor Rambles in France and Germany and the Record of a Pilgrimage from Land's End to John O'Groats in Britain by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

My father is so clever, and so resolute in his purpose to set aside all control over the property as arranged by law, that to my mind it has all been contrived by himself.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Berkeley passed the open window, looking cool and fresh in summer clothing, and Pocahontas, catching sight of him, put her fingers to her lips and whistled sharply to attract his attention, which being done, she followed up the advantage with pantomimic gestures, indicative of despair, and need of swift assistance.
— from Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland

The improvident family is still common, and many ugly mill villages yet exist, but one who has watched the development of the cotton industry in the South for twenty-five years has seen great changes in these respects.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson