Chairs, as in olden time, and Indian palanquins were introduced for the infirm; but else it was nothing singular to see females of rank going on foot to places of fashionable resort.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

sahuy n k.o. striped fish of reefs, growing to 6″. sái, sáin 1 which of the two or several.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It does not vary when passing over fields of ripe grain, and it rises when it passes over towns.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If a man fear or reverence God, he must hate 15 covetousness; and if he fear or reverence covetousness, he must hate God.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The threatening tempest of Barbarians, which so soon subverted the foundations of Roman greatness, was still repelled, or suspended, on the frontiers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As evening drew on, hearts beat fast with anticipation, hands were full of ready gifts.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

She had noticed yesterday that a [Pg 26] few tiny corkscrew tendrils had come right through some cracks in the scullery ceiling and all the windows of the lean-to had a thick frill of ruffled green.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Its walls were hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform armorial trophies, together with an unusually great number of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

GLORIA (in a flush of rage, going over to him with her fists clenched).
— from You Never Can Tell by Bernard Shaw

These local Diets were the only form of representative government which existed in the rural districts; they had little power, but their opinion was asked on new projects of law, and they were officially regarded as an efficient substitute for a common Prussian Parliament.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

He was the father of Rev. Gilbert Miller of Picton, and died at the age of ninety.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

The 30th they came to a rock, much like the Eddystone at Plymouth, about five leagues off the land, in lat 48° 30' S. and within a mile of it had soundings in eight fathoms, on rocky ground.
— 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

Where security is the first need, as in the case of protecting forces (advanced, flank, or rear guards), movement should be effected by bounds from one tactical position to another under covering fire from supporting troops; where the objective is the primary consideration, security must be subordinated to the need of reaching the objective.
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

CAVERN ON ILLECILLEWAET GLACIER 8 SNOUT OR FOREFOOT OF ROBSON GLACIER, JASPER PARK 9
— from Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks, 2nd. ed. With Notes on Five Great Glaciers of the Canadian National Parks by A. P. (Arthur Philemon) Coleman

Next week a flood of replies gushed out of the editor's pigeon-holes.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Hair a flood of red gold!
— from The Story of Paul Jones: An Historical Romance by Alfred Henry Lewis