“O, my Lord,” answered he, “if health were the only cause of a lady’s bloom, my eye, I grant, had been infallible from the first glance; but-” “Come, come,” cried Mrs. Mirvan, “I must beg no insinuations of that sort: Miss Anville’s colour, as you have successfully tried, may, you see, be heightened; but, I assure you, it would be past your skill to lessen it.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Going along the narrow path to a little uncut meadow covered on one side with thick clumps of brilliant heart’s-ease among which stood up here and there tall, dark green tufts of hellebore, Levin settled his guests in the dense, cool shade of the young aspens on a bench and some stumps purposely put there for visitors to the bee-house who might be afraid of the bees, and he went off himself to the hut to get bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey, to regale them with.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

= calwa cēap (ē, ȳ) m. cattle , CP: purchase, sale, traffic, bargain, gain , B ; CP: price , LL .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

For it is just because their reasoning power is weak that present circumstances have such a hold over them, and those concrete things, which lie directly before their eyes, exercise a power which is seldom counteracted to any extent by abstract principles of thought, by fixed rules of conduct, firm resolutions, or, in general, by consideration for the past and the future, or regard for what is absent and remote.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

“This gentleman was not one of your wife’s friends?” “No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a common-looking person.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

〈Selfe Love.〉 title given by Chambers: no title, 1650-69 ( in appendix ), JC , O'F 4 'gaynst JC , O'F: against 1650-69 6 And can ... chuse, JC: And cannot pleasure chuse, 1650-69: And can all pleasures chuse, O'F 11 foul ones] fouleness O'F 14 slave; 1719: slave 1650-69 15 fool, 1719: fool 1650-69 17 payes, JC , O'F: prays, 1650-69 19 payes not,] payes, not, 1650-69 20
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Seeing an old volume in vellum, he read the title, Revolutions of the Celestial Globes , by Copernicus.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

These great business concerns grew because natural laws made them grow and artificial law at war with natural law could not stop their growth.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The older crew members, most of whom had served under Gray before, caught this spirit and felt that all this was a good sign, a good omen for a new ship just starting out on her shakedown cruise.
— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

While Philipson made this melancholy reflection, he resolved, at the same time, not to forsake his own cause, but defend himself as he best might; conscious as he was that these terrible and irresponsible judges were nevertheless governed by certain rules of right and wrong, which formed a check on the rigours of their extraordinary code.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

"Yes, and then a man might stint and save all his life, and never get beyond cutting off his fly to mend his seat; he'd most likely spend twice what he made!
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

The following letter was in reply to one inclosing a newspaper clipping reporting a performance of The Prince and the Pauper, given by Chicago school children.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) by Mark Twain

They are also given by Colgan.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

From 1595 A. D. they gradually became converted to Christianity, revolted in 1687 against their Spanish oppressors, and early in the eighteenth century (1706) were so reduced in number that they yielded easily to the attacks of the Yámassi Indians, who, instigated by English colonists, made incursions upon their villages from the North.
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

Therefore, though Ambrosius, and afterwards Gregory, based Christian hymns, about the year 1591, on ancient hymns, and that we come upon the traces of that purely rhythmic music in what are called the 'Canto Fermo' and the 'Antiphones,' this is nothing but that they made use of germs which had been handed down to them.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Let us stop at no half-way ground, but claim, and keep claiming all our rights until somebody says we shall have them.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll