"The Father loves all that I do.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

“It’s a cannon-ball from Louisbourg; and though I don’t know, of course, for certain, yet I have made up my mind that it is a relic of the first siege.”
— from The Boys of Grand Pré School Illustrated by James De Mille

Andrea rose from the sofa where he had been lying and opened one of the windows; he wandered aimlessly about the room, took up a book, read a few lines and threw it down again; looked about him undecidedly as if searching for something.
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

If you feel a preference for Lady Adela, though I don't think she would suit you so well as Miss Vipont, I will answer for her father's encouragement and her consent.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The meat was cut coarsely into half-inch [155] pieces and thrown into wooden boxes about three feet long and ten inches deep.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

A method has been introduced in the United States of drying wet and finished leather all together, in drying-rooms heated to a considerable temperature, and closely shut up.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Pierre Debré side by side with a few desperate men who had one of the two light cannon the fort possessed, was fighting like a tiger in defense of a corner where a group of women and children were crouching.
— from Days of the Discoverers by Louise Lamprey

In forests such as these, stretching for leagues across the island, do the Cuban rebels pitch their camps.
— from Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey