Prince Andrew, pale and gloomy like everyone in the regiment, paced up and down from the border of one patch to another, at the edge of the meadow beside an oatfield, with head bowed and arms behind his back.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Our greatest local event in recent weeks was the route march the county battalion made through the county before it left for overseas.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The cheapness and plenty of good land encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay those high wages.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

= KEY: Pain \n.\. SYN: Penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief, (labour, effort, in the, pains) anguish, torture, agony.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Saheb, if at this time, the ryots be brought here they will suffer great loss; else, I, also, would have prayed for their being brought here again, since the offences of the defendant which are already proved, may receive stronger confirmation.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

[10] My mother, the second wife, was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, one of the first settlers of New England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather, [11] in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana , as " a godly, learned Englishman ," if I remember the words rightly.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It must be said that in some of these fields the results have as yet borne little theoretic fruit commensurate with the great labor expended in their acquisition.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I had never been accustomed to getting left, even if I do say it myself.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

So that whether we observe the bright spectrum of calcium or any other metal, or the absorption spectrum under the conditions above stated, we get lines exactly in the same part of the chromatic gamut, with the difference that when we are dealing with radiation we get bright lines, and when dealing with absorption we get dark ones.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Go long early in morning before Black come back.
— from Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

A darkling place, of shadowy space, Reached by a silent stair; A skeleton clock, with a dusty face, That marks time in the air, To five grey ghosts, in blue and gold lace, Each in ghost of a board-room chair.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 by Various

Thanks to the splendid codified game laws enacted in New York state in 1912, our Conservation Commission can de
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

'You good, generous little Elsie,' I cried; 'I won't stop here one moment after I have finished the painting and papering.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen