During that night, also, the two wooden gunboats, Tyler, commanded by Lieutenant Groin, and Lexington, Lieutenant Shirk, both of the regular navy, caused shells to be thrown toward that part of the field of battle known to be occupied by the enemy.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Good gentlemen and lovely ladies, So red of cheek and fine of dress, Behold, how needful here your aid is, And see and lighten my distress!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More, there is a recorder of London, a grave and learned lawyer, skilful in the customs of this city, also assistant to the lord mayor: he taketh place in councils and in courts before any man that hath not been mayor, and learnedly delivereth the sentences of the whole court.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

This room opened upon a grove, which stood on the brow of a gentle declivity, that fell towards the river, and the tall trees gave it a melancholy and pleasing shade; while from the windows the eye caught, beneath the spreading branches, the gay and luxuriant landscape stretching to the west, and overlooked on the left by the bold precipices of the Pyrenees.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

She gives a little laugh, suggestive of incredulity and a slight flavor of ridicule.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

And David cried sadly, perhaps because partly he was tired with having been on his legs more than usual that day; but his good and loving little self was come home again.
— from The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

the gay company was gone, And light lay soft on the deserted room From alabaster vases, and a scent Of orange leaves and sweet verbena came From the unshuttered window on the air, And the rich pictures, with their dark old tints, Hung like a twilight landscape, and all things Seemed hushed into a slumber.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Across the table, in the midst of this room full of noisy wretches, tricked out red, blue, purple, and parti-coloured, as men and women of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, as improvised Turks and Eskimos, and dominoes, and clowns, with faces painted and corked and floured over, I seemed to see that sanguine sunset, washing like a sea of blood over the heather, to where, by the black pond and the wind-warped firs, there lay the body of Christopher Lovelock, with his dead horse near him, the yellow gravel and lilac ling soaked crimson all around; and above emerged, as out of the redness, the pale blond head covered with the grey hat, the absent eyes, and strange smile of Mrs. Oke.
— from A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee

They had arranged all the buttercups, &c., in patterns on the haywalls; bunches of meadow-sweet swung from the roof like censers, and perfumed the air; and the ox-eye daisies which formed the ceiling gave a light like stars.
— from The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

About five miles from Sardis, the capital of Lydia, is the Gygea, a large lake so called probably from the memorable king.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

In our opinion, a college founded to-day, should conform its curriculum to the growth of the world, in letters, and thought, and science, and civilization, and Christianity;—while the Greek and Latin languages should be studied only for specific ends.
— from Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College by Henry M. (Henry Miller) Pierce

And it got a little lighter so that he could make sure, and he called some others of his watch and told them to look and see the school of porpoises.
— from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by William John Hopkins