A crowd of people spent the day on the site of the funeral pile, looking for fragments of bone in the shingle that was still warm.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

An edifice for a free public library for youths was just then commencing, and Lafayette consented to stop on his way and lay the corner-stone.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Having reached the mountains, he goes through a vigil of prayer and fasting, possibly lasting four days, after which he hunts until he succeeds in killing a deer.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Fait par les François dans les années 1708, 1709 and 1710.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Pattern for pillow lace fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

These words (which in those happy days often drew tears from me, little as I was inclined to attach a serious meaning to them) make it now, in the opinion of my friends, a duty incumbent on me to introduce the posthumous works of my beloved husband, with a few prefatory lines from myself; and although here may be a difference of opinion on this point, still I am sure there will be no mistake as to the feeling which has prompted me to overcome the timidity which makes any such appearance, even in a subordinate part, so difficult for a woman.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

At the end the bride counts eight beats before she and the father put "left foot" forward.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Dactyl – ⏑ ⏑ ♩♪♪ dūcimus Anapaest ⏑ ⏑ –1> ♪♪♩ regerent Spondee – –1> ♩♩ fēcī Proceleusmatic ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ ♪♪♪♪ hominibus Feet of Five Morae. Cretic – ⏑ –1> ♩♪♩ fēcerint First Paeon – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ ♩♪♪♪ lēgeritis Fourth Paeon ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ –1> ♪♪♪♩ celeritās Bacchīus ⏑ – –1> ♪♩♩
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The interpretation did not strike me; and I fancied, perhaps luckily for my nerves, that the arrangement was prescribed simply to secure a companion, who would prevent my taking too much exercise, or eating unripe fruit, or doing any of the fifty foolish things to which young people are supposed to be prone.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

He studied in the local Instituto, and must have profited by his opportunities, for the literary attainments shown in his novels can have resulted only from persistent labor from youth up.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

FARNUM, CALEB, Jun., A. M.; "Practical Grammar;" 12mo, pp. 124: 1st Edition, (suppressed for petty larcenies from G. Brown,) Providence, R. I., 1842; 2d Edition, (altered to evade the charge of plagiarism,) Boston, 1843.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

He says, for instance, in a letter to the famous physician Leonard Fuchs, who wanted him to take up his abode at Tübingen: “Some Fate has, as it were, bound me fast against my will, like hapless Prometheus,” bound to the Caucasian rock, of whom the classic myth speaks.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

A flagged path led from the gates, which, Jim discovered later, had not been opened for many years, to the front door, on either side of which was a roughly trimmed lawn.
— from The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby

His rapid French phrases leaped forth as if shot from a pistol, and his shrill voice, familiar to every ear in Vincennes, drew the creole militiamen to him, and soon Beverley's company had doubled its numbers, while at the same time its enthusiasm and ability to make a noise had increased in a far greater proportion.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

Turning to my friend, she asked, "Did you cry loud for poor little Florence?"
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Others again train four parallel lines from nape to forehead, forming two cushions along the parietals.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

—Take either of the pastes for peppermint lozenges from Nos. 1 to 4, and cut into small fancy devices, such as hearts, diamonds, spades, triangles, squares, etc.
— from How to Make Candy A Complete Hand Book for Making All Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, Etc., Etc. by Anonymous

The sea had the blue of Nice; why must we always go to the Mediterranean for an aqua marina, for poetic lines, for delicate shades?
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner

After he had replaced the cap and returned the bottle to the bag, he waited for a few minutes, then took a spatula from the musette and dug where he had poured the fluid, prying loose four black, irregular-shaped lumps of matter, which he carried to the running water and washed carefully, before wrapping them and putting them in the bag, along with the gloves.
— from Police Operation by H. Beam Piper