He paid the women compliments in French of the Rhine, and sputtered out gallant remarks, only fit for a low pothouse, from between his two broken teeth.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
It was the glory of the castle, this great room of forty feet in width and sixty in length.
— from Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
Sheets, cones, and gigantic rods of force flashed and crackled.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
And the sweet white blossoms open overhead, and a gentle rain of flowers falls upon the fairies.
— from The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book by Eden Coybee
Meantime, the important German regiments of Fugger, Fronsberger, and Polwiller, with their colonels and other officers, had openly joined the rebellion, while there was no doubt of the sentiments of Sancho d'Avila and the troops under his command.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley
In the next moment there was a general rattle of firearms from the train, and the mass of the charging column broke up into squads which went off in aimless caracolings.
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest
Nay, he had got rid of four; for in each of the three there had been enclosed a copy of his Majesty's general Declaration , or Letter to "all Our Loving Subjects of what degree or quality soever."
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson
It was through poems and pictures, which they read and saw, that the general run of folks first learned to look for beauty in nature.
— from The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, William Martin, Sir
All round him were trees with straight, tall grey trunks, and behind and beyond them yet other trees—trees everywhere that stood motionless like pillars of stone supporting the dim green roof of foliage far above.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
So the girl reaches out for friends.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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