"Well, now, you are grown up," said the old dowager, her grandmother; "so you must let me adorn you like your other sisters;" and she placed a wreath of white lilies in her hair, and every flower leaf was half a pearl.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I engaged with old Smith, and was to give him a big sum if he got us safe to our ship.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

To this is attributed the flexibility of the branches of trees, from which wheels of carriages are made, and to the same cause is imputed the growth upon some trees of wool.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

They are very different from the great unpardoned, sinful throng outside the kingdom—they are CHRISTIANS.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

The faculties of theology and medicine were soon included, but for a long time the faculty of arts retained the older title of Magister , till the German universities substituted that of Doctor.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

“Let me get up,” said the other.
— from The Cottage on the Fells by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

For does not all this kind of talk go upon supposition, that our happiness in this world consists in somewhat quite distinct from regard to others, and that it is the privilege of vice to be without restraint or confinement?
— from Human Nature, and Other Sermons by Joseph Butler

The Twenty-Sixth Alabama and Fifty-Fifth Georgia, had guarded us since the opening of the prison, but now they were ordered to the field, and their places filled by the Georgia "Reserves," an organization of boys under, and men over the military age.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2 by John McElroy

The one is spoken in thunder and graven upon stone: the other comes from the lips, into which grace is poured, of Him Who was fairer than the children of men.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

And oil has gone up something terrible of late.
— from Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds by Howard Roger Garis

A particular feature of this Garden of Paradise was a cabbage, about which have grown up some traditions of the Brobdingnagian 273 sort that the reader may accept in toto or with a grain of salt.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark