While the service was proceeding in the Cathedral of the Assumption—it was a combined service of prayer on the occasion of the Emperor’s arrival and of thanksgiving for the conclusion of peace with the Turks—the crowd outside spread out and hawkers appeared, selling kvas, gingerbread, and poppyseed sweets (of which Pétya was particularly fond), and ordinary conversation could again be heard.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The difference between operative and speculative Masonry is simply this—that while the former was engaged in the construction of a material temple, formed, it is true, of the most magnificent materials which the quarries of Palestine, the mountains of Lebanon, and the golden shores of Ophir could contribute, the latter occupies itself in the erection of a spiritual house,—a house not made with hands,—in which, for stones and cedar, and gold and precious stones, are substituted the virtues of the heart, the pure emotions of the soul, the warm affections gushing forth from the hidden fountains of the spirit, so that the very presence of Jehovah, our Father and our God, shall be enshrined within us as his Shekinah was in the holy of holies of the material temple at Jerusalem.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

It was an overturned wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones scattered and piled up.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

For the first time for many days Natásha wept tears of gratitude and tenderness, and glancing at Pierre she went out of the room.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Iksaktu giyud ang pagkalútù sa isdà, The fish was cooked just the right amount of time.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thus, when a Tangalān Paraiyan girl attains puberty, she is bathed on the ninth day, and ten small lamps of flour paste, called drishti māvu vilakku, are put on a sieve, and waved before her.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Liza was flying along like a bird, not conscious where she was going, and Pyotr Stepanovitch was already fifty paces behind her.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The physiology of the sense-organs has, in recent times, made us acquainted with a number of such phenomena, discovered partly in consequence of theoretic speculations and questionings, partly by individuals, like Goethe and Purkinje, specially endowed by nature with talent for this sort of observation.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

His real dress consisted of a green tunic with large flowers in gold and precious stones over which were [Pg 100] a large breast-plate of diamonds shaped like two flattened fleurs-de-lis, and an ornament of the same kind on each thigh; large emerald bracelets on the arms above the elbows and many other jewels in different places.
— from Stories About Famous Precious Stones by Adela E. (Adela Elizabeth Richards) Orpen

As the object of my excursion was to contemplate the manners of the people, I summoned resolution to view this gloomy and painful spectacle, which seemed to excite but little sensation in the market place, where its petty traffic and concerns proceeded with their accustomed activity, and the women at their stalls, which extended to the foot of the scaffold, appeared to be impressed only with the solicitude of selling their vegetables to the highest bidder.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

He had a distinct literary gift, and published several books, which were the outcome of his life in its varied scenes.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

In 1580 the General Assembly, after having at various times diminished the power and rank of bishops, declared that episcopacy was unscriptural and unlawful—a dictum which the Parliament fully ratified in 1592, establishing the Presbyterian Church as the national one, with general assembly, provincial synods, presbyteries, and kirk sessions.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Often and often she had felt so sorry for these men who had faced peril so gallantly, and pain so bravely, but their peril and pain had never yet penetrated her like this.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The only tests applicable to gems and precious stones are the determination of their relative hardness and their specific gravity.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Raston turned over the leaves of the music, and Mrs Bathurst, with a glance at Pratt, settled herself to listen.
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

Instantly he took up the hand-baggage, kicked open the iron gate, and preceded Shirley up the cement walk to the door.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

I've got a print somewhere.
— from Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell