The wild Licquorice is found on the sides of these hills, in great abundance.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“What is the matter?” asked M. d’Avrigny, at the foot of the stairs, it being the hour he usually visited her.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

She was looking at a humble stone which told of a young man who had died at twenty-three years old, fifty-five years ago, when she heard a faltering step approaching, and looking round saw a feeble woman bent with the weight of years, who tottered to the foot of that same grave and asked her to read the writing on the stone.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Care, Grion of Brearton, and John Coke, the apothecary, be fallen of the sweat in this house, and, thanked be God, all well recovered, so that as yet the plague is not fully ceased here, but I trust shortly it shall.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

Yet the pistil of each cabbage-flower is surrounded not only by its own six stamens, but by those of the many other flowers on the same plant.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

But as the tribal distinctions became lost, the ancient hostility survived in the abstract form of this satan of Strife—Samaël.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When she was brought from Shu to grace the harem of the founder of the Sung dynasty, in A.D. 960, she is said to have preserved secretly the portrait of her former lord, the Prince of Shu, whose memory she passionately cherished.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Mr. Bart sat motionless, his gaze still fixed on the salmon, and his lower jaw dropped; he looked even paler than usual, and his thin hair lay in untidy streaks on his forehead.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

"Assuredly it was a heavy sin and injustice," answered the monk; "but the chastisement is too hard--that is the truth--and it falls on the souls of the innocent--the people are only made ungodly and uproarious by it; as we have proofs daily.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

the fact that the Scandinavian countries themselves were afflicted with wars only to a small extent, explain the freedom of the Scandinavian women.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

But Apollo, full of scorn and anger, lashed up his fiery steeds as he each day drove past her, nor deigned for her a glance more gentle than that which he threw on the satyrs as they hid in the dense green foliage of the shadowy woods.
— from A Book of Myths by Jean Lang

Vee is on one side, Payne on the other, both lowerin' away careful; but as she makes the final plunge before floppin' onto the seat she reaches out one paw and annexes my right arm.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford

Gentlemen , A S you did me the Honour to approve my Proposals for the following Voyage, and generously fitted out two Ships, in which you gave me the principal Command; I no sooner resolv’d to publish my Journal, than I determin’d to chuse you for my Patrons: and thereby to take an opportunity of expressing my Gratitude to you, who had the Courage to adventure your Estates on an Undertaking, which to Men less discerning seem’d impracticable.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

Those awe-inspiring walls seem almost to meet; for overhead they swerve in many places toward each other, so as to shut out the light; in others they part to admit gleams of sunshine and blue sky.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

The later history of the Patriotes falls outside the scope of this little book, but a few lines may be added to trace their varying fortunes.
— from The 'Patriotes' of '37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by Alfred D. (Alfred Duclos) DeCelles