As she turned the leaves, over her face passed gleam after gleam of expression, the least intelligent of which was a full greeting to the Past.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

This is one and the first of the four principal gates, and also one of the seven double gates, mentioned by Fitzstephen.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

He's a free, pleasant gentleman as ever lived—rides to the hounds, keeps his pointers and all that.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

For as the worship of the Sun, the Deity of fire, prevailed greatly at places of this nature, I make no doubt but Hercynia, which Ptolemy expresses Ορκυνια was so named from Or-cun, the God of that element.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

gearwungdæg (eo 1 ) m. parasceve , JnR. + gearwungnes f. preparation . gearwutol austere , LkL 19 21,22 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

When she looked back the Captain of the Guard was gone, and she was alone, except for Patypata, Grabugeon, and Tintin, who lay upon the ground.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Few eyes are against beauty proof; Few hands from gold can keep aloof; Few people guard a treasure well, Or of strict faithfulness can tell.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

We may suppose, too, that Rebecca, on paying a second visit to Queen's Crawley, did not feel particularly grieved at the absence of the lady of the medicine chest; though she wrote a Christmas letter to her Ladyship, in which she respectfully recalled herself to Lady Southdown's recollection, spoke with gratitude of the delight which her Ladyship's conversation had given her on the former visit, dilated on the kindness with which her Ladyship had treated her in sickness, and declared that everything at Queen's Crawley reminded her of her absent friend.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The hero of the Odyssey, when his opportunity arrives, sets no limit to the vengeance which he exacts, from prince, goatherd and maidservant.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

They dragged me in, and by that time I was feeling pretty good again.
— from Catty Atkins, Sailorman by Clarence Budington Kelland

To the aristocracy of those two centuries is mainly due the fact that the growth from paternal government and personal rule to direct popular administration was a gradual development, through only occasional scenes of storm and stress, instead of involving a succession of revolutions alternating with civil war.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

All the past is antiquated,— Useful but for present guide, And if followed makes the future All that has been hoped and tried.
— from Home Poems by Kate Louise Wheeler

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— from Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

358-59, where, in explaining the law of rent for pleasure grounds and residence sites, the "general law of value" is declared to be that value measures marginal utility .
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

In the meantime remember, that faith pleaseth God; and that without faith it is impossible to please him.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan