And he had a curious fancy that he was too far off to verify, that most of these ants of both kinds were wearing accoutrements, had things strapped about their bodies by bright white bands like white metal threads… He put down the glasses abruptly, realising that the question of discipline between the captain and his subordinate had become acute.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There is the Paris of Catherine de Medicis at the Tuileries;*—the Paris of Henri II., at the Hôtel de Ville, two edifices still in fine taste;—the Paris of Henri IV., at the Place Royale: façades of brick with stone corners, and slated roofs, tri-colored houses;—the Paris of Louis XIII., at the Val-de-Grace: a crushed and squat architecture, with vaults like basket-handles, and something indescribably pot-bellied in the column, and thickset in the dome;—the Paris of Louis XIV., in the Invalides: grand, rich, gilded, cold;—the Paris of Louis XV., in Saint-Sulpice: volutes, knots of ribbon, clouds, vermicelli and chiccory leaves, all in stone;—the Paris of Louis XVI., in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III., resembles the laws of Minos,—it is called in architecture, “the Messidor” ** taste;—the Paris of Napoleon in the Place Vendome: this one is sublime, a column of bronze made of cannons;—the Paris of the Restoration, at the Bourse: a very white colonnade supporting a very smooth frieze; the whole is square and cost twenty millions.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

She glanced all round the parlour, from the corner cupboard to the good fire in the grate.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Mr Cheggs has a good a right to be jealous as anyone else has, and perhaps he may have a better right soon if he hasn’t already.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

cōnsul plācandīs dīs habendōque dīlēctū dat operam , L. 22, 2, 1, the consul devotes himself to propitiating the gods and raising troops .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But in Greece and Rome the case was far different.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

For instance, there was a bead necklace—the light hollowed silver enamel—he wanted fourteen dollars for; he seemed rather glad finally to sell it for four, though you can’t say he seemed glad; on the contrary, he seemed preternaturally gloomy and remarked that he and not we would eat bitterness because of this purchase.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS IN GREEK AND ROMAN TIMES BY JOHN STEWART MILNE , M.A., M.D. Aberd.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

And when she leaped over the seas, and almost out of the water, and trembled to her very keel, the spars and masts snapping and creaking,—"There she goes!—There she goes,—handsomely!—as long as she cracks she holds!"—while we stood with the rigging laid down fair for letting go, and ready to take in sail and clear away, if anything went.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“How like you it, sirs?—Our Saxon subjects rise in spirit and courage; become shrewd in wit, and bold in bearing, in these unsettled times—What say ye, my lords?—By this good light, I hold it best to take our galleys, and return to Normandy in time.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

A South American tinamou ( Rhynchotus rufescens ); -- called also perdiz grande , and rufous tinamou . See Illust. of Tinamou. { Y*nough" (?), Y*now" (?) }, a.
— from The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section X, Y, and Z by Project Gutenberg

He had undertaken to mould into shape a corrupt upper class, and his first move had been to give a rein to their bad passions.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

"I have quite as good a right to ask you for the name of yours!"
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

“Trust to the good Allegri,” rippled the brook; “it is he who gave me liberty.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Going out to fish I could not get a rise, the otters had evidently scared all the fish out of the pool.
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

The principal topographical errors are the following:—Doña Mencia names to Gil Blas two places on the road near Burgos—these she calls Gofal and Rodillas; the real names are Tardagal and Revilla, (1, 11;) Ponte de Mula is put for Puenta Duro, (1, 13;) Luceno for Luyego; Villardera for Villar del Sa, (5, 1;) Almerim for Almoharia, (5, 1;) Sliva for Chiva, (7, 1;) Obisa for Cobisa, (10, 10;) Sinas for Linas; Mililla for Melilla; Arragon for Aragon.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

It was not far to go, beyond the castle gate, and Richard turned for a moment to gaze back upon towers and battlemented walls which had resisted so many a stout assailing.
— from With the Black Prince by William O. Stoddard

Dora sprang up hastily when she noticed how dark it had grown, and recollected that her aunt would be expecting her.
— from Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri

But whatever the end may be, is not the mechanism of such matter proceeding from God and returning to God, a mere child's plaything?
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac