On the other side the yard windows were thrown up, and people were shouting all sorts of things; but I kept my eye fixed on the stable door, where the smoke poured out thicker than ever, and I could see flashes of red light; presently I heard above all the stir and din a loud, clear voice, which I knew was master's: “James Howard!
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Stability is given by the line of the horizon and waves in front, and the masts of the ships, the oars, and, in the original picture, a feeling of radiating lines from the rising sun.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

In the case of Dante, his position in the State, his political creed, and his whole fashion of regarding life, were vitally influenced by the circumstances of his birth.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

As he threw it open, a flash of red light, streaming far into the chamber, flung his shadow with a clear outline against the quivering tapestry, and he shuddered to perceive that shadow—as he staggered awhile upon the threshold—assuming the exact position, and precisely filling up the contour, of the relentless and triumphant murderer of the Saracen Berlifitzing.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Unfortunately, the reformer sometimes carries his objection too far, or rather locates it in the wrong place.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

a. slakening Llacrwydd, n. slackness, laxity, relaxed state Llach, n. a ray; a slap Llachar, a. gleaming Llachau, n. gleams Llachbren, n. a cudgel Llachdwm, n. a tub Llachffon, n. cudgel Llachiad, n. a slapping Llachiaw, v. to slap, to cudgel Llachiwr, n. cudgeller Lladaeth, n. conferring a favour Lladawl, a. gracious Lladin, n. the Latin language Lladiniaeth, n. latinity Lladiniaw, v. to latinize Lladinydd, n. latinist Lladmerydd, n. an interpreter, a translator Lladrad, n. theft or stealth Lladradaidd, a. thievish, privat Lladrata, v. to steal Lladrataeth, n. act of thieving Lladratiad, n. a thieving Lladrates, Lladrones, n. female stealer Lladratwr, n. stealer, thief Lladron, n. thieves, robbers Ladronaidd, a. thievish Lladroni, v. to become thieves Lladu, v. to confer a favour Lladyr, n. that is without value Lladd, n. a cut off; a killing: v. to kill, to cut off Lladdadwy, a. that may be cut off or killed Lladdedig, a. killed, cut off Lladdedigaeth, n. a killing Lladdfa, n. a slaughter Lladdiad, n. a killing Lladdwr, n. a killer, a slayer Laddwriaeth, n. butchery Llae, n. an expanse, a spread Llaer, n. a rippling; a reflux Llaeru, v. to ebb Llaes, a. loose, lax, trailing low Llaesbais, n. loose trailing coat Llaesder, n. laxness; a trailing Llaesiad, n. a rendering trailing, a drooping Llaesu, v. to slacken, to trail Llaeth, n. milk.—Llaeth enwyn, butter-milk Llaetha, v. to collect milk Llaethdwn, n. a lay land Llaethedd, n. lactescene Llaethfwyd, n. a milk diet Llaethiad, n. turning to milk Llaethlo, n. a suckling calf Llaethlyd, a. milky Llaethog, a. abounding in milk Llaethogrwydd, n. milkiness Llaethol, lacteal, milky Llaethon, n. the soft roe of fish Llaethu, v. to turn to milk Llaethysgall, n. sow thistle Llaf, n. that extends out Llafan, n. that bears impression Llafanad, n. intellect, sense Llafanawg, n. the livewort Llafanawl, a. intellectual Llafar, n. utterance, speech: a. vocal; loquacious Llafarai, n. vocal, vowel Llafarawd, n. pronunciation Llafarawl, a. enunciative Llafaredigaeth, n. pronunciation Llafariad, n. pronunciation Llafarlais, n. a clear tone Llafaru, v. to pronounce to speak Llafarus, a. apt to be vocal Llafarwch, n. loquacity Llafarwedd, n. mode of speaking Llafarwr, n. an enunciator; a speaker, a preacher Llafas, n. the act of daring Llafasawl, a. daring Llafasu, v. to dare, to presume Llafaswr, n. a presumer Llafn, n. a blade; a flake Llafnawr, n. blade spears Llafnes, n. a strapping girl Llafniad, n. a blading Llafnu, v. to blade, to flake Llafon, n. a lamina, a flake Llafren, n. a large buttocked one, a squabby woman Llafrwyn, n. the bulrushes Llafu, v. to spread out; to breech Llafur, n. labour; tillage Llafuriaeth, n. a labouring Llafurio, v. to labour, to toil Llafurus, a. laborous, toilsome Llafurwriaeth, n. husbandry Llafyr, n. a spread; the breech Llag, n. that is slack: a. slack Llagad, n. a plash full of rushes Llai, n. mud; raven gray: a. small; also smaller: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

This has larger leaves than those of the Self-heal, but else of the same fashion, or rather longer; in some green on the upper side, and in others more brownish, dented about the edges, somewhat hairy, as the square stalk is also which rises up to be half a yard high sometimes, with the leaves set by couples, from the middle almost, whereof upwards stand the flowers, together with many smaller and browner leaves than the rest, on the stalk below set at distance, and the stalk bare between them; among which flowers, are also small ones of a blueish and sometimes of an ash colour, fashioned like the flowers of Ground-ivy, after which come small, round blackish seeds.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

This gave me a chance to get acquainted with one of the pilots, and he taught me how to steer the boat, and thus made the fascination of river life more potent than ever for me.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Once when the princess was reading how Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, introduced her sons to the first of Roman ladies with the words, 'These are my jewels,' she looked up from her book, and remarked: 'She should have said my Cornelians .'
— from Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 by Anonymous

Women practically never expectorate in public, men do it frequently, or rather, let us hopefully say, used to.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

These plains or great terraces, of which three and four often rise like steps one behind the other, are formed by the denudation of the old Patagonian tertiary beds, and by the deposition on their surfaces of a mass of well-rounded gravel, varying, near the coast, from ten to thirty-five feet in thickness, but increasing in thickness towards the interior.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

What can be more pathetic than the spectacle of a helpless young chair or table or settee starting on a stage career shining with gilt varnish and high ambition to reflect in art’s mirror the drawing-room manners of the furniture of real life.
— from Neither Here Nor There by Oliver Herford

What wonder then that the fascination of riverside London fell early upon the writer of novels?
— from Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Iron plaster , Frankincense p. , Strengthening p. ; Emplastrum roborans , E. ferri (B. P., Ph. L. E. & D.), E. thuris , E. ferri oxydi rubri , L. Prep.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

When you tried to catch him midway he stood on his hind legs and bowed to you slantwise, waving his forepaws, or rushed like lightning up the tree of Heaven, and climbed into the highest branches and clung there, looking down at you.
— from The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

Pseudobulbs smooth, slightly compressed, sometimes broadly ovate, but occasionally tapering, 2 to 3 inches long, and bearing 1 or 2 linear lanceolate-pointed Leaves , which are from a few inches to a foot long, and frequently of rather lax character; a reddish tint is also sometimes met with both in the leaves and pseudobulbs .
— from A Monograph of Odontoglossum by Jas. (James) Bateman

Sir Wymond had Thomas, the husband of Elizabeth Edgecumb, and they myselfe, linked in matrimony with Iulian, daughter to Iohn Arundel of Trerice, and one of the heires to her mother Catherine Cosewarth, who hath made me father of Richard, lately wedded to Briget, daughter of Iohn Chudleigh of Ashton in Deuon.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew