But if the Christmas field has kept Awns the last gleaner overstept, Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue A single season, never two; Or if one haulm whose year is o'er Shivers on the upland frore, -Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

This tracing linen, which is of English make, is white, glazed on one side only; the unglazed surface should be turned uppermost, as it takes the ink better.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The genesis of one should aid us in understanding the genesis of the other.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Sometimes a garland of old shoes is hung up on the door-post of the chamber.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as daring.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"He can only move two squares, but makes up in the quality of his locomotion for its quantity, for he can spring one square sideways and one forward simultaneously, like a cat; can stand on one leg in the middle of the board and jump to any one of eight squares he chooses; can get on one side of a fence and blackguard three or four men on the other; has an objectionable way of inserting himself in safe places where he can scare the king and compel him to move, and then gobble a queen.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

For some reason he could not get the word “Friday” out of his head; he could think of nothing but Friday, and the only thing that was clear to him, not in his brain but somewhere in his heart, was that he would not get off on Saturday.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the province of Nueva Segovia the religious labored hard in the search throughout mountains and valleys, and other secret places, for the huts where the devil had been adored, to which those people used to make pilgrimages in search of health or other favors, giving offerings of bits of gold, or of stones regarded by them as precious.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Diego Aduarte

The two of them fired three shots each before he could get out of sight into the canyon.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

They rode slowly in the opposite direction to that in which the other party had gone, till they had gotten out of sight of the little town.
— from The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

The breast of Charles de Haldimar, who had listened with deep and increasing attention to this avowal, swelled high with pleasurable excitement, and raising himself up in his bed with one hand, while he grasped one of Sir Everard's with the other, he exclaimed with a transport of affection too forcible to be controlled,— "Oh, Valletort, Valletort!
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1 by Major (John) Richardson

But you have given only one side, and that side not all of it good.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The fair gardens of our souls shall no longer be ravaged by sleek pride, or fierce appetite, or ravenous lust.
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

Shakespeare, in the grave scene in Hamlet , puts into the mouths of the clowns who are preparing the grave of Ophelia something to the same effect.
— from England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

With women, marked, irregular noses, e. g. with deep indenture of the bridge, or with concave or convex archings, or with facettes at the knob, &c., signify far more for talent than with men; and--except in the case of a few whom I myself have seen--beauty must always sacrifice something to genius, although not so much as afterward the genius of others sacrifices to beauty, as we men in general have, unfortunately perhaps, done.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

That it exists in great quantity in animal bodies, is evident on gently rubbing the back of a cat in the dark; and it would seem that, in some instances, it may be given out or secreted by the nerves.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett