Maria had to keep the cow’s stall clean with fresh litter every day; sometimes she had to take the cow out to grass, and watch that it only grazed over the right piece of land; at other times she had to go out and cut grass for the cow to eat.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

Gnosticism had not only no canon of its own, but no thought of one: while the fashion lasted every decade saw a new system, refining on the last and multiplying its abstractions, till the very term gnosis must have become a byword.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

" L'hymne au Travail chante avec plus de force lyrique encore dans ses bronzes.
— from Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work Reproductions of a Series of Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, Made by Him about the World, 1881-1915, with Impressions and Notes by the Artist by Joseph Pennell

On honorait cette déesse de l'Asie par des orgies furieuses, par un mélange de débauche effrénée et de rites cruels; ses prêtres efféminés dansaient au son des flûtes lydiennes et de ses crotales , véritables castagnettes, semblables à celles que fait résonner aujourd'hui la paysanne romaine en dansant la fougueuse saltarelle .
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

There was something unusual in his appearance—his form looked extraordinarily distinct, solid, and real.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

The housekeeper, a stately white-haired dame, who had served the former Lady Errington, declared she was "an angel"—while the butler swore profoundly that "he knew what a queen was like at last!"
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

The theory of art is soon mastered; but 'dal detto al fatto, v'e gran tratto;' and as I have several times told you in former lectures, every day shows me more and more the importance of the Hand.
— from Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

For weeks his father lingered, each day seeming an age to Harry, who, though he did not wish to hasten his father's death, still longed to be away.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

My people were quite wealthy; but, in a panic, some years ago, father lost everything, dying soon after.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Texas; Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Frank Gee Patchin