She had frightened love away, precious love, and that couldn't be good.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Approaching the table, I saw on it a large box, or case, nearly seven feet long, and perhaps three feet wide, by two feet and a half deep.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Some of the astronomical instruments have been removed to Potsdam by the Germans since the siege of the foreign Legations at Peking in 1900.—H. C.] On these auguries, and on diviners and fortune-tellers, see Semedo , p. 118 seqq.; Kidd , p. 313 (also for preceding references, Mid. Kingdom , II.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A field of battle between the British and Roman camps Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and the Roman army at one door, and the British army at another, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS following like a poor soldier.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors: a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together, at different periods of his life.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

‘Face like a peach!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Clifford jumped up, threaded his way through the floral labyrinth, and putting an eye to the crack of the door, said, "Who the devil is it?"
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The instant flashed forth like a point of light and now from cloud on cloud of vague circumstance confused form was veiling softly its afterglow.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The ashes were scattered over the fields, laid as paste over the houses and granaries, or mixed with the new corn to preserve it from insects.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It is not that the soul puts forth friends, as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

but she spake, French, Latin, and Paynim: in all such lore As men read in the highest heavens, Dialectics, Geometry, In all was she courteous trainèd, and her name it was called Kondrie.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

And he did know; however, he thought it advisable to have things brought out into the full light and put into form; hoping they might so be easier dealt with.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

If the edema is pendent in feet, legs and perhaps genitals when the patient is up, with its disappearance at night, and more or less backache and pitting of the back in the morning, it is the heart that is most rapidly failing.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

The heat which wilted down the white men and made their round old faces look almost peaked, appeared to have a briskening effect upon him.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Thus it was in Scotland so far as security for life and property was concerned; but the Scotch were apt pupils of more fortunate nations.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

Ah, the days!—the old, old theme, Never stale, but never new, Floating like a pleasant dream, Back to me and back to you.
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

It lauded the life filled with the perception and appreciation of the beautiful as the only free life, and pronounced every other way of life to be servile.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

[120] Set in a basin of pure white silica, delicately carved and fretted, lay a pool of pale blue water, so pure in colour, so opaque in substance.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

“Sit there, brother, and cool thy blood,” said Gamelyn, as he and Adam sat down to a feast, at which the servants waited on them eagerly, partly from love and partly from fear.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt