(Here the gentleman in raccoon made an effort to smile.)
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those that are hard and sour, do, on the contrary, bind the belly as much, and the leaves do so also: Those that are moist do in some sort cool, but harsh or wild sorts much more, and are very good in repelling medicines; and if the wild sort be boiled with mushrooms, it makes them less dangerous.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt’s
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Near these ancient graves I renewed my acquaintance with the old familiar vizcacha of the plains of Buenos Ayres, which I have previously pointed out does not exist in Patagonia proper, viz., to the south of the Rio Negro.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

But apropos of this latter boon, it is dawning upon me that Rachel Guest is receiving more attention than Monny.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

George instantly recognized me, and said he anticipated my mission, having received sundry private and very confidential letters from Pierce on the same subject.
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton

It was carried partly unstrung over the shoulder when not in use; the total unstringing was not advisable because of the time occupied in getting it ready, most Asiatic bows bending backwards into an oval shape when unstrung, and requiring much physical exertion and time to replace the string.
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

is part of his history: “During the whole of this time we never once wished for anything that we had not got, but were quite contented, and with a good grace in reality made a virtue of necessity.”
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

But the question of the projective equivalence of two figures, to which all projective Geometry is reducible, must always be dealt with by a collineation; and the question of the equality of two figures, to which all metrical Geometry is reducible, must always be decided by a motion such as to cause superposition; hence the whole subject of Geometry may be regarded as a theory of the continuous groups which define all possible collineations and motions.
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

Dark-red as to soil, bristling with sandstone bowlders, sparcely grown with pines and thorny locust-trees, and gashed by rain-washed gullies, it rose majestically against the cloud-flecked blue of infinite space beyond.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

There’s plenty of game, I reckon; moose and elk and bear and sheep and goats, and perhaps a few deer.
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell

His father looked at him for a moment, and then, turning to the others with an air of disgust, he said:— “Gentlemen, I really must apologize to you for having ventured to bring
— from The Story of a Donkey abridged from the French of Madame la comtesse de Ségur by Ségur, Sophie, comtesse de

“I didn't tell her to give it,” replied Mrs. Ashford.
— from A Missionary Twig by Emma L. Burnett