It is grown to a large extent in England, but is practically unknown in the United States.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

In three or four days, on the day on which we were going to act L’Ecossaise, the doctor came to dine with the ambassador and stayed till the evening to see the play.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He gave them arable land to sow corn in, and let them apply their crops to their own use.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I don't think much of you yet—I wish I could—though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

I always said we would have to go through a long night before any chance of daylight.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Not a thought was given to a life which you once, Mercédès, had the power to render blissful; not one hour of peaceful calm was mine; but I felt myself driven on like an exterminating angel.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time, and licked me.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

It was a day of pale gold and faded green, tranquil and lingering.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

All evidence goes to show that idols so called, are simply images used as media for the manifestation of ghosts, spirits, and gods: the ancients, like contemporary primitive races, do not seem ever to have actually worshipped such images, but simply to have supplicated by prayer and sacrifice the indwelling deity.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Not only were huge sums offered for the horses and carts, but on the previous evening and early in the morning of the first of September, orderlies and servants sent by wounded officers came to the Rostóvs’ and wounded men dragged themselves there from the Rostóvs’ and from neighboring houses where they were accommodated, entreating the servants to try to get them a lift out of Moscow.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Here's my hand Lifts first a mustard-seed, then weight on weight Greater and ever greater, till at last It lifts a melon, I suppose, then stops— Hand-strength expended wholly: so, my love First lauds the gardener for the fig his gift, Then, looking higher, loves and lauds still more, Who hires the ground, who owns the ground, Sheikh, Shah, On and away, away and ever on, Till, at the last, it loves and lauds the orb Ultimate cause of all to laud and love.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

I shall go there as little as possible.”
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

You were wrong, captain, in not giving them a look."
— from The Blue Pavilions by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Hasty shelter-trenches gridiron the land; such trenches as breathless men, dropping after a charge, threw up hurriedly with the spades that they carry on their backs to give them a little cover.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

Thus I had come to look upon women as just feeble, timid creatures, over-prone to gossip, tears, and lamentations, and good for very little that I could perceive.
— from The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

It grows to a large size.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

But such overweening I will check in good time and leave them to perish in their war."
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

"We have gone through a lot of stirring work together, and no fellows could have behaved better."
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In Germany the Achenbachs, Lessing, and many other artists were active in this movement, while in America, Innes, A. H. Wyant, and Homer Martin, with numerous followers, were raising landscape art to an eminence before unknown.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

It grew thinner and larger, lines came in the forehead, the eyes grew more deep-set and darker in colour, the mouth grew longer and thinner; most terrible of all, a little dark moustache appeared on the lip of one who was still - except as to the face - a two-year-old baby in a linen smock and white open-work socks.
— from Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit