Happily, with the Captain's and Conseil's sharp friction, I saw consciousness return by degrees.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.’
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I'm afraid of this myself, for I should certainly rap him over the knuckles,
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

(hlēow), gs. hlēowes (only found in sg.) covering, refuge, defence, shelter, protection , Cr, PPs : protector, lord .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

As one wanders through the mazes of description of the hair dress of the period, he is prepared to agree with the author to whom we have just referred, that "it is no easy matter to give a proper description in writing of the different fashions in the [pg 211] dresses of the ladies"; and so we shall submit the case in terms of still another writer's description; Philip Stubbs says: "Then followeth the trimming and tricking of their heads, in laying out their hair to the show; which, of force, must be curled, frizzled, and crisped, laid out in wreaths and borders, and from one ear to another; and, lest it should fall down, it is underpropped with forkes, wires, and I cannot tell what; then, on the edges of their bolstered hair, for it standeth crested round about their frontiers, and hanging over their faces, like pendices or vailes, with glass windows on every side, there is laide great wreathes of gold and silver, curiously wrought, and cunningly applied toe the temples of their heads; and, for feare of lacking anything to set forth their pride withal, at their hair thus wreathed and crested, are hanged bugles, I dare not say bables, ouches, ringes of gold, silver, glasses, and such other gew-gawes, which I, being unskillful in woman's tearmes, cannot easily recompt."
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

They did not make their entry till after a long interval—and their remains are therefore to be found in strata comparatively recent and better known to us than those of the older rocks.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

Fish and turtles were the chief articles of food in some coast regions, and the Nicaraguans are described by Oviedo as expert fishermen, who took fish from ocean and river by means of rods, lines, and flies, also in cotton nets, and by pens and embankments in the tide waters.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Oh! what heart can exaggerate the beauty with which our Church shall again shine forth, if she can retain the good that is in her and discard the evil!
— from A Second Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, M.A. Some thoughts on the position of the Church of England, as to her dogmatic teaching by Mayow Wynell Mayow

As Leonardo da Vinci died in the arms of Francis I., so Chaucer rested in his grave near the bodies of those sovereigns and princes with whom he lived in intimacy and friendship.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

“Sophronia, my dear fellow, is simply Clorinda renamed by the baptism of fire.
— from Eugene Pickering by Henry James

↑ [ Contents ] LETTER FROM DIEGO DE HERRERA TO FELIPE II Sacred Catholic Royal Majesty: When I saw that the affairs of this land had no permanent settlement and no hopes of one, and that the natives were very much molested by the Spaniards, and that so far as I could see God was being served but little in this region because of the great license which men have here for evil and the lack of justice, and that very little service was being rendered your Majesty, since they are ruining excellent lands here for you: I determined last year, sixty-nine, to go to Nueva España in order to give advice of what was passing here in order that some reform might be instituted in this, and to discuss the matter with the viceroy in order that he might relieve the condition as much as he could and give notice of the other things to your Majesty.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

At another time, long after Mr. Seymour's death, she said to an intimate friend: "I hope Mr. Reade will never ask me to marry him, for I should certainly refuse the offer.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

"But a team that is set upon scoring its goal, And winning a vict'ry or two, Must see that its field it should carefully roll, And that's what we're hoping to do!
— from The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil

"But eating is quite a different thing from income," she continued, relieving at last my impatience; "and I can't see the sense of his idea that people shouldn't keep more than just enough money to live on.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant