One to six dozen finest quality linen sheets, plain hemstitched, large monogram.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But it was also a material for ladies' robes, for quilts, leggings, housings, pavilions.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

You disappeared for a time; then you were again found quietly living in Mixen Lane.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

y primaveral de la nación de Enrique IV la expresión de audacia, de la ironía, de la precisión, de la incredulidad y del fuego que los consumía interiormente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

What fun que la apuesta se cumpliera, if the bet were done, que pagan bien y al contado.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Her eyes fell on the old man, who, with his hands folded, quietly looked on.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Finito questo, la buia campagna tremo` si` forte, che de lo spavento la mente di sudore ancor mi bagna.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Martha’s face quite lighted up.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When he had sat down, K. continued to look round the room, it was a large room with a high ceiling, the clients of this lawyer for the poor must have felt quite lost in it.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

— N. laterality[obs3]; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole[obs3], wing; profile; temple, parietes[Lat], loin, haunch, hip; beam.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

fletus domini fingebat amantis, indomitasque mora, pretio lenibat avaras lascivasque iocis; non blandior ullus euntis 85 ancillae tetigisse latus leviterque reductis vestibus occulto crimen mandasse susurro nec furtis quaesisse locum nec fraude reperta cautior elusi fremitus vitare mariti.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

[1544] "Monsieur le prince d'Hespaigne fort extenué, la vint saluer, qu'elle recent avec telle caresse et comportement, que si le père et toute la compaignie en ont receu ung singulier contentement ledit prince l'a encores plus grand, comme il a demonstré depuis et démonstre lorsqu'il la visite, qui ne peut estre souvent; car outre que les conversations de ce pays ne sont pas si fréquentes et faciles qu'en France, sa fièvre quarte le travaille tellement, que de jour en jour il va s'exténuant."
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

In 1831, Mrs. Hemans finally quitted Liverpool for Dublin.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

Both boys had been in Bangor several times, so they did not feel quite like strangers.
— from To Alaska for Gold; Or, The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer

First they boiled the sap in great big pots and then put it away to cool in queer little dishes of various shapes, and when the sugar hardened it was in the forms of funny little fish, queer little houses, strange animals, and, goodness knows, what not.
— from The Iceberg Express by David Cory

With the finish of the holidays the guests at the Hall went their several ways, and there was a lull in the feverish round of gaiety which had moved Moresby out of its accustomed calm, and had introduced into the usually contented breasts of the rustic portion of the community a dissatisfaction with their former quiet life and a profound respect for the new residents, quite apart from the prestige that descended upon them by virtue of their dwelling at the Hall.
— from Coelebs: The Love Story of a Bachelor by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

Her feelings had not had time to become full grown, and as she read a story of an utterly heart-broken maiden, she thought to herself,— “After all, I don’t feel quite like this .”
— from Kingsworth; or, The Aim of a Life by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

And, rising from the cushions, he stripped off his clothes there and then in the fickle quicksilver light of the vagarious moon, and plunged, a new Narcissus, into the star-strewn waters of the melancholy stream.
— from The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth by Hamish Miles

On y amène un chien; et si c'est une femme que l'on purifie, comme elle doit être nue, c'est aussi une femme qui tient le chien. L'impur
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

His reference to the presence of native copper among the Plascôtez de Chiens , or Dog Rib Indians, who inhabit the country between the mouth of the Mackenzie and the Coppermine River, is particularly interesting:— "Ils ont dans leur Pays une Mine de Cuivre rouge , si abondante & si pure, que, sans le passer par la forge, tel qu'ils le ramassent à la Mine, ils ne font que le frapper entre deux pièrres, & en font tout ce qu'ils veulent.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne