The river had a fearful look, so overcast and secret, creeping away so fast between the low flat lines of shore—so heavy with indistinct and awful shapes, both of substance and shadow; so death-like and mysterious.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

THE FIRST LAY OF SIGURD FAFNICIDE, OR GRIPIR'S PROPHECY.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

In feeling my way I had found many angles, and thus deduced an idea of great irregularity; so potent is the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from lethargy or sleep!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The procession filed off, two and two, with the books and parasols, and Miss Monflathers, calling the Baronet’s daughter to walk with her and smooth her ruffled feelings, discarded the two teachers—who by this time had exchanged their smiles for looks of sympathy—and left them to bring up the rear, and hate each other a little more for being obliged to walk together.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The examples show that a word may be inflected (1) by the addition of a final letter or syllable ( dog , dogs ; look , looked ), (2) by the substitution of one letter for another ( man , men ), or (3) by a complete change of form ( good , better , best ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

There is not work enough for all our hands; Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins To give each naked curtle-axe a stain That our French gallants shall to-day draw out, And sheathe for lack of sport.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

1635-69 21 causeth] maketh H40 , P 23-4 Who can of love more free gift make Then to loves self, for loves owne sake H39 , H40 , P ( but H39 has to love in 23 )
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

with Coloured Frontispiece, 3 s. 6 d. Familiar Letters on some Mysteries of Nature.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The rippling wave is like her aching brow; The fluttering line of storks, her timid tongue; The foaming spray, her white loose floating vest;
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

Strain the liquor, and add a few lumps of sugar which have been rubbed on the rind of two lemons, and the juice of three lemons strained; then beat the yolks of seven
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

Mr Randall sent the most considerable of the prisoners on board my ship, who informed me their vessel was La Conception de Receva , belonging to Calao, but last from Guanchaco, of 200 tons burden, laden with flour, loaves of sugar, boxes of marmalade, and jars of preserved peaches, grapes, limes, and such like.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

" "Oh, exactly!" chuckled Mr. Boniface, ramming his hands into his pockets and cheerfully jingling a bunch of keys and a penknife for lack of silver.
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

Raw meat can be given them two or three times a week, but never feed liver or salt meat.
— from All about Ferrets and Rats A Complete History of Ferrets, Rats, and Rat Extermination from Personal Experiences and Study. Also a Practical Hand-Book on the Ferret. by Adolph Isaacsen

Put two table-spoonfuls of tapioca into a basin with four lumps of sugar, a grain of salt, and a lump of sugar rubbed on the rind of a lemon; pour a gill of boiling milk over these ingredients and cover them up with a saucer to steep for ten minutes, then add one egg; beat up all together, and boil the pudding in a [89] buttered tea-cup tied up in a cloth, for nearly half an hour.
— from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elmé Francatelli

It contained a few lumps of sugar, over which a mixture of whiskey and glycerine had been [Pg 164] poured.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If the exclusion of the parts were necessary to the grandeur of the whole composition, if the more entire this exclusion, if the more like a tabula rasa, a vague, undefined, shadowy and abstracted representation the picture was, the greater the grandeur, there could be no danger of pushing this principle too far, and going the full length of Sir Joshua's theory without any restrictions or mental reservations.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

They appear to lie within the 100 fathom line of soundings.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace