A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a hard frost prevailed on shore; and the cold was most severe.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I possessed fifteen pounds, odd shillings, which I had saved from my quarterly allowance during several years.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Under the fair pretence of securing the dignity of the art, the privilege of subscribing legal and valid opinions was confined to the sages of senatorian or equestrian rank, who had been previously approved by the judgment of the prince; and this monopoly prevailed, till Adrian restored the freedom of the profession to every citizen conscious of his abilities and knowledge.
— 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

This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.
— 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.

Ay, to hang in a fair pair of slings, take his latter swing in the world upon an honourable pair of crutches, from hospital to hospital.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Semicolon, 309 f. Sentences, 1 ff.; kinds of, 2 f.; parts of speech in, 3 ff., 13 ff.; essential elements in, 2 , 14 ; simple and complete subject and predicate, 14 f.; clauses in, 16 ff.; simple, compound, complex, 17 ff.; compound complex, 18 . Sentences, analysis, 183 ff.; structure and elements, 183 ; of simple sentences, 184 f.; of compound, 185 ; of complex, 186 ; of compound and complex clauses, 186 f.; of compound complex sentences, 187 ; models for analysis of simple, compound, complex, compound complex sentences, 188 ff.; modifiers, 191 ff.; complements, 200 ff.; modifiers of complements and of modifiers, 205 ff.; independent elements, 209 ; combinations of clauses making sentences of various forms, 210 ff.; special complications, 220 ff.; elliptical sentences, 224 ff.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

It is true that the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, with its most sapient faculty, still exists and that some intelligences are yet exercised in formulating distinctions and in penetrating the subtleties of scholasticism; but where will you now find the metaphysical youth of our days, with their archaic education, who tortured their brains and died in full pursuit of sophistries in some corner of the provinces, without ever having succeeded in understanding the attributes of being , or solving the problem of essence and existence , those lofty concepts that made us forget what was essential,—our own existence and our own individuality?
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

"Make a bold stand for purity of speech and charity of judgment," she told another, "and let none of the froth that rises to the top of the life around you vex or disturb your peace."
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

Indeed after looking carefully at this tale one is tempted to say that, for perfection of style, some of the old folk-tales are not to be equaled.
— from A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Fry Kready

Apart from the appropriateness of the gift, and a certain improbability that articles of such fragility would survive the vicissitudes of a campaign, the landlord proved not only willing but eager to {180} dispose of his valued heirlooms at a price unexpectedly moderate for pieces of such antiquity and rarity.
— from Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

In the course of his antics he came quite close to the seated figure of the cowboy, who had just helped himself to a fresh plate of stew.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 128, November, 1908 by Various

And it is possible that a half-jesting reference, which would deprive Shakespeare’s amorous adventure of serious import, was made to it by a literary comrade in a poem that was licensed for publication on September 3, 1594, and was published immediately under the title of ‘Willobie his Avisa, or the True Picture of a Modest Maid and of a Chaste and Constant Wife.’
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

The women, children, and sick were transported to the island, with a few bags of rice only, and a few pieces of salt pork.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

Use small fancy fish plates, or salad plates.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

Though it was perfectly self-evident from the start that Mrs. Martin would throw cold water on anything requiring an outlay of money Craig accomplished his full purpose of securing an interview with Mr. Haswell.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

They were crowded close together on the other side around some furze bushes, and the first peculiarity ob- servable was that, on the sudden appearance of Oak's head over the fence, they did not stir or run away.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

A topographic map at a scale of 1:250,000 of the Moab quadrangle and similar maps at a scale of 1:62,500 for the Thompson, Cisco, Moab, and Castle Valley quadrangles are available from the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Distribution Section, Federal Center, Denver, Colo. 80225, from the Canyonlands Natural History Association at Moab, and from privately owned shops where maps are sold.
— from The Geologic Story of Arches National Park Geological Survey Bulletin 1393 by Stanley William Lohman