Bulstrode was indeed more tortured than the coarse fibre of Raffles could enable him to imagine.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

On approaching the capital, the prospect became more diversified: we passed fields of rice, cottages encircled by fruit-gardens, and country houses belonging to the Cambodian aristocracy, who come here in the evening for the sake of breathing a purer air than they can find in the city.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

sandanay, sandanun n a name close friends or relatives call each other mutually.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That ceremonial restraint, preceding other forms of restraint, continues ever to be the most widely diffused form of restraint we are shown by such facts as that in all intercourse between members of each society, the decisively governmental actions are usually prefaced by this government of observances.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Oh, Flask, for one red cherry ere we die!”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Noyon quickly became a center of feverish activity and the focus of Red Cross efforts on the third day of the battle.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Do you suppose that a single man, of tolerable person, well-born, and with a hundred thousand francs of rentes , could entirely escape proposals from the ladies in Europe?"
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

And for what object we spent our small funds on raw clams, eaten out of the shell, and doused with pepper sauce, (which, for my part, I could with the greatest difficulty swallow, bringing tears to my eyes, and burning in my throat for a week after), I as little know, but now suppose it was in imitation of the rough men and sailors about the piers with whom we consorted, and whom we wished to impress with our manliness.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

It has been so fruitful in its many applications and in the foreshadowing of remote consequences, especially respecting carbon compounds, that it is impossible to deny its claims to be ranked as a great achievement of chemical science.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The first is where the lover, after a flight of rapturous commendation, expresses his wonder why all men that are about his mistress, even to her very servants, do not view her with the same eyes that he does.
— from The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

[Page 410] of Turner's power as an architectural draughtsman, to the front of Rouen Cathedral, engraved in the Rivers of France, and to the Ely in the England.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

We find a good instance in Timewell's sacking apparatus, which weighs corn, chaff, flour, oatmeal, rice, coffee, etc., transfers it to sacks, and sews the sack up automatically.
— from The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments by Archibald Williams