Then, again, on the other hand, I can't wait to get a Gretchen, an unsophisticated little Gretchen of the Taunus at Schlangenbad— I suppose there are unsophisticated girls in Germany still—made in Germany—they don't make 'em any longer in England, I'm sure—like everything else, the trade in rustic innocence has been driven from the country.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

"The man has all the notes of genuine and unmistakable literary genius.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

“Lies der Papisten Bücher, höre ihre Predigen, so wirst du finden, dass diess ihr einziger Grund ist, darauf sie stehen wider uns pochen und trotzen, da sie vorgeben, es sei nichts Gutes aus unserer Lehre gekommen.
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"I called, Miss Prall," he began, but Mrs Everett interrupted: "Oh, I know what for," she cried, clasping her fat hands, and giving an unpleasant little giggle, "to talk about the murder!
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

Another one of the nearby sights, not usually “taken in,” is the natural garden (an undefiled landscape garden) arranged in the sixteenth century by the Duke of Savoy, Emanuele Filiberto.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

You must seek to realize in your heart the presence of an Almighty and all-loving God, an unspeakably loving God.
— from 'Jesus Himself' by Andrew Murray

"My good little Maudie," said Mrs. Caryll, "why should not Hoodie too be a good and understandable little girl?"
— from Hoodie by Mrs. Molesworth

My uncle, who had been one of the ringleaders of the chicken-hearted, crap away up among the rest, with his new blue coat on, shining fresh from the ironing of the goose, but keeping well among the thick, to be as little kenspeckle as possible; for all the folk of the town were at their doors and windows to witness the great occasion of the town-council going away up like gentlemen of rank to take their dinner with his lordship.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

The Gastromycetes are usually large, ground-growing fungi.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine