“Do this look like a forge?” replied Orlick, sending his glance all round him with an air of injury.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Here and there sharp points and slender needles rising to a height of 200 feet; further on a steep shore, hewn as it were with an axe and clothed with greyish tints; huge mirrors, reflecting a few rays of sunshine, half drowned in the fog.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

In Beloved Memory of Fanny Robin Oak saw her, and his first act was to gaze inquiringly and learn how she received this knowledge of the authorship of the work, which to himself had caused considerable astonishment.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Troy had taken his part very quietly this time, venturing to introduce a few speeches on occasion; and was just concluding it when, whilst standing at the edge of the circle contiguous to the first row of spectators, he observed within a yard of him the eye of a man darted keenly into his side features.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Stockings are looked over for rips or small holes, and the maid usually washes very fine stockings herself, also lace collars or small pieces of lace trimming.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In the course of history the number of fundamental clans has varied; the number of the fundamental regions of space has varied with them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I n this volume are contained the annals of all the many campaigns of 1811, with the exception of those of Suchet’s Valencian expedition in the later months of the year, which for reasons of space have to be relegated to Volume V.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

As I drove through the sweetly sylvan Park of Richmond, in the late afternoon of a breezy summer day, and heard the whispering of the great elms, and saw the gentle, trustful deer couched at ease in the golden glades, I heard all the while, in the still chambers of thought, the tender lament of Collins—which is now a prophecy fulfilled: "Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest; And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." CHAPTER VII WARWICK AND KENILWORTH
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter

{73} Traffic, and wakeful eyes of little lights; The black crowd passing near; and far away A fading rose of sunset hanging low Above the roofs of indigo and grey.
— from Poems by Nora May French

It was said also, and by people whose word was not without weight, that the same council of Vienna, which for reasons of state had made no scruple of poisoning the late Queen of Spain (daughter of Monsieur), because she had no children, and because she had, also, too much ascendancy over the heart of her husband; it was said, I say, that this same council had no scruples upon another point.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

As a man dissenting from received opinions, Sokrates had his path marked out in the field of philosophy or individual speculation.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

Ages ago a clock in the great house known as Primrose Hall, not far from the famous region of “Sleepy Hollow,” had struck three, then four, and now one, two, three, four, five solemn strokes boomed forth and yet not a glimmer of light nor a sound to announce the coming of morning.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

Streams must once, though historically unknown, have flowed in them; and M. d'Orbigny argues from the presence of undissolved salt over the whole surrounding country, that the streams must have arisen from rain or snow having fallen, not in the adjoining country, but on the now arid Cordillera.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin