“If you had needed anything I would have worked for you,” said Deronda, conscious of disappointed yearning—a shutting out forever from long early vistas of affectionate imagination.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

"The income of a seigneur is derived from the yearly rent of his lands, from lots et vents , or a fine on the disposal of property held under him, and from grist mills, to whose profits he has an exclusive right.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

Fruit large, elongated, very obtuse at base; bright yellow, speckled with brown dots; flesh fine, very melting, rather granular at center; Dec. Duchesse Hélène d’Orléans.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Standing there, she looked long at herself, till, little by little, her face lost every vestige of that disturbance, became solid and resolute again.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Amphitheaters open out from little erosion valleys or wadi, and isolated outliers of the mountains stand like sentinels before their massive fronts.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs