It has been suggested already that in the days of the assize and jurata the court decided whether the facts constituted a ground of liability in all ordinary cases.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue, anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

—In 1855 three other ports were opened to foreign commerce—Sual in Pangasinan on the Gulf of Lingayan, Iloilo, and Zamboanga.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

I thought how the same feeling had come back when I saw a face looking at me, and a hand waving to me from a stage-coach window; and how it had come back again and had flashed about me like lightning, when I had passed in a carriage—not alone—through a sudden glare of light in a dark street.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The inner kernel is freedom, It is light, purity— I can no more, Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

When he arrived in the presence of king Minos, the goddess of Love inspired Ariadne, the beautiful daughter of the king, with an ardent attachment for the noble young hero.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The God of Literature In addition to the ancestors of whose worship it really consists, Confucianism has in its pantheon the specialized gods worshipped by the literati .
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

I replied to this affectionate expostulation in the words of Montrose,— "'He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all.'
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Then would one turn towards his neighbour saying, "This is some tricky old bow-fancier; either he has got one like it at home, or he wants to make one, in such workmanlike style does the old vagabond handle it.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

(She goes off L., Izod again produces the keys and jingles them on the table.)
— from The Squire: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

[85] There is one great group of languages in Africa, from a little way north of the equator to its southern extremity, the Bantu , and in addition a complex of other languages across the centre of the continent about which we will not trouble here.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And seeing a glimmer of light in a barn near by, she crept softly to a little window in the barn, and peeped to find what was going on.
— from The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

Meldola, Prof. Raphael F.R.S.: Professor of Chemistry in Finsbury Technical College (City and Guilds of London Institute), and a well- known entomologist; translated and edited Weismann's "Studies in the Theory of Descent," 1882-83. -address to Entomological Society. -letters to.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Glynn, who had let his cigar go out, lit it again at the flame of one of the candles on the dining-table.
— from The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

If I have not better luck in the game of life; if a complete change in my fortune does not take place; if!!!!!
— from Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Then Pete got one leg into action, and then the other, and Miki's jaws came together with a sudden click.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood

The governor-general is a Piedmontese; the minister of war is a Piedmontese; the commander of the armed police is a Piedmontese; the military governor of Leghorn is a Piedmontese; the captain of the port is a Piedmontese; without reckoning a great number of other functionaries of the same nation.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson