Flora, who typified the season of Spring, is generally represented as a lovely maiden, garlanded with flowers.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

I go right along and look after that myself.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

This Mr. Guppy resents as a liberty, retorting, "Jobling, there ARE chords in the human mind—" Jobling begs pardon.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

At first all this seemed to amuse David as much as if Kitty were a small child playing at sweethearts; but soon his manner changed, growing respectful, and a little cool when Kitty was most confiding.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

But such cases must not be confounded with a general retreat after a lost battle.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

If the intelligible character involved that we could only form a good resolution after a long conflict with a bad disposition, this conflict would have to come first and be waited for.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

[pg 494] which appears as the life of this body; it is most welcome, and is gladly received as a longed-for deliverance.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"We'll go right away and leave you free to begin it," said Anne.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Gustav Richter AFTER a long day of work in my hot—houses Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

We are turning our backs on the granite rocks, and are like people from Hamburg who would go to Lubeck by way of Hanover."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Our game runs along a little old-constructed channel, and it gets clogged with fault.
— from The Spirit of the Links by Henry Leach

“The Field of the Cloth of Gold” remains as a landmark in history, when kings vied with each other in extravagant ostentation and proposed to settle their differences by personal combat.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths

More than one such "repulse" of silhouettes has gone down into the German records as a local success.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

In 1900 and 1901 Major Peake, C. M. G., R. A., and Lieut.
— from The Nile in 1904 by Willcocks, William, Sir

The poor thing stood in a great gilded room all alone, looking pitiably home-sick.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

For, from that tearful evening of the queen's ball to the day of his death, sixty-one years after, Louis of Bourbon, called the Great, ruled as absolute lord over his kingdom of France, and the boy who could say so defiantly "Henceforth I will be my own master," was fully equal to that other famous declaration of arrogant authority made, years after, in the full tide of his power, " I am the state!"
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks

The grease removed, add a little more of the spirit, and rub with a piece of clean cloth; finish by adding a few drops more; rub it with the palm of the hand, in the direction of the grain of the cloth, and it will be clean and glossy as the rest of the garment.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

These are of various sorts, from the great resorts at Aix les Bains, where our soldiers can spend their furloughs, to the hostess houses at the cantonments on this side.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell