Other houses, of less imposing appearance, were occupied by a great number of families, who worked at all sorts of trades, such as jewellery, the making of arms, weaving, currying, the embroidering of silk and gold, cotton, &c. "Farm-buildings, paddocks, cow-houses, sheepfolds, barns, the houses of agriculturists, and the cabins of the serfs, completed the royal village, which perfectly resembled, although on a larger scale, the villages of ancient Germany.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

It is time that the good Colonel came forth to greet his friends; else we shall be apt to suspect that he has taken a sip too much of his Canary wine, in his extreme deliberation which cask it were best to broach in honor of the day!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Motecusuma was now the more inclined to give Cortes credit for his good wishes towards him, and considered himself greatly indebted to him, and more so since Orteguilla had likewise assured him, that his imprisonment was entirely owing to our officers, and that Cortes would not be able to act according to his own wishes in this matter.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

He always preached on Sunday at the hotel where he stayed, and great crowds came from every direction to hear him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The world was astonished that so much gloom could come forth from a people.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Daed´alus and Ic´arus ( Continued ) Tum Daedalus gravibus cûrîs commôtus fîliô suô Îcarô ita dixit: "Animus meus, Îcare, est plênus trîstitiae nec oculî lacrimîs egent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But the poor supporting the poor, as she well says, what good can come from that!”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

" General Crandall called for a second slice of lemon in his cup.
— from Inside the Lines by Robert Welles Ritchie

259 Dutch ships crowded our ports; they carried away English commodities 136 at lower freights than English vessels could afford to do, and thus we were “eaten out of all trade and the bread taken out of our mouths in our own seas, and the great customs carried from his Majesty’s coffers to foreign princes and states.”
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

This influx of money, no less than the stream of goods, came chiefly from England, where U.S. railway shares were bought in bulk.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

A golden cloud came floating o'er my head, With kindred glories round the sun to blend!
— from The Isle of Palms, and Other Poems by John Wilson

Now a previous study led us to the conclusion that the nature of abnormal suggestibility is a disaggregation of consciousness, a slit produced in the mind, a crack that may become wider and deeper, ending in a total disjunction of the waking, guiding, controlling consciousness from the reflex consciousness.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

"My God!" cried Conniston, feeling now only a great despair upon him, seeing only the death to all hopes of success for the reclamation project with Truxton lost to it.
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

The Grand Chew Chew felt in the sleeve of his kimono and brought out a bit of crumpled silver paper, and adjusting his horn spectacles, read slowly.
— from The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson

[Pg 75] For some years, attention has been attracted to the Great Central Coal Field of Illinois, the north eastern rim of which underlies the cities of Peru and La Salle.
— from The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe