In short, there never was a more successful supper; and when Kit ordered in a glass of something hot to finish with, and proposed Mr and Mrs Garland before sending it round, there were not six happier people in all the world.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

' "Taking his words as a gesture of secret healing toward my receptive mind, I was not surprised the next morning at a welcome accession of strength.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Giants are called Bota (Bhuta), Raksasa, and Gargasi ( gasi-gasi or gĕgasi ), or sometimes Hantu Tinggi (“Tall Demons”), the first two of these names being clearly derivable from a Sanskrit origin.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Both in time and space, species and groups of species have their points of maximum development.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In other words, do the parts of our universe HANG together, instead of being like detached grains of sand? Even grains of sand hang together through the space in which they are embedded, and if you can in any way move through such space, you can pass continuously from number one of them to number two.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

He quickly recapitulated the story of a sacrifice he had heard of in college: a man had cheated in an examination; his roommate in a gust of sentiment had taken the entire blame—due to the shame of it the innocent one's entire future seemed shrouded in regret and failure, capped by the ingratitude of the real culprit.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

A few steps in advance of the gate of Saint Honore they met a third troop; this latter party was composed of ill-looking fellows, who resembled bandits more than anything else; they were the men of the beggar of Saint Eustache.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

By adopting the style of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, son of Antoninus and grandson of Severus, he tacitly asserted his hereditary claim to the empire; but, by assuming the tribunitian and proconsular powers before they had been conferred on him by a decree of the senate, he offended the delicacy of Roman prejudice.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In his first interview with the governor of St. Helena, the illustrious exile said emphatically: "Egypt is the most important country in the world."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

"Very soon; I think the good old soul has taken it into that precious head of hers to suspect what I am about, and in her horror of a misalliance, she is coming down in hopes of stopping me altogether.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

The hut, as Tom recalled the directions, lay just beyond a group of stunted hemlock trees that set a little way back from the ocean, on a bluff overlooking the sea.
— from Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton

A further test can be made by adding 1 or 2 grams of sodium hydroxid to the rest of the ether extract and heating a half hour in an oil bath at 250° C. Dissolve in water when
— from Detection of the Common Food Adulterants by Edwin M. Bruce

"The country can afford it...." § 2 He left it at that for the time, but throughout the afternoon Mr. Direck had the gratification of seeing his thought floating round and round in the back-waters of Mr. Britling's mental current.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then came the first glimpse of snowy heights, then of deep cañons, and then the summit was attained, and far westward stretched the maze of plains and [Pg 171] mountains through which the Snake River, the greatest of the tributaries of the Columbia, took its swift way.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman