A fire glimmered from an upper room, the chamber in which he slept; and at times his daughter's figure passed the window as she moved across it, in her gentle and noiseless task of nursing the dying officer.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

It was like Aunt Kipp to invite her poor relations to go and “nip their own noses off,” as she elegantly expressed it.
— from Proverb Stories by Louisa May Alcott

The last age had exhausted all its powers in giving a grace and nobleness to our natural appetites, and in raising them into a higher class and order than seemed justly to belong to them.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The Federalists really accomplished a great and necessary task of national organization and founded a tradition of constructive national achievement.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

The worst germs are not those of newly discarded food remnants; the commonest and well-known bad smelling germ of ordinarily "tainted" meat, which is exceptionally attractive to the house-fly and the blue-bottle, is fortunately, after cooking, not so dangerous as some of those other deleterious micro-organisms mentioned in the last chapter.
— from The Book of the Fly A nature study of the house-fly and its kin, the fly plague and a cure by G. H. (George Hudleston Hurlstone) Hardy

We will never grant any new tolls or new mints within the territory or jurisdiction of any one of the princes except by his consent and desire.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

That is , We should fear and love God, and not take our neighbor's money or property, nor get it by unfair dealing or other dishonesty, but help him to improve and protect his property and living.
— from Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

It was like Aunt Kipp to invite her poor relations to go and "nip their own noses off," as she elegantly expressed it.
— from Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Hôtel Gruuthuuse and North Transept of Notre-Dame Church.
— from The Yser and the Belgian Coast: An Illustrated History and Guide by Pneu Michelin (Firm)