Young Hawley, an accomplished billiard-player, brought a cool fresh hand to the cue.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The residents here are Americans by connection and by interest, and are inimical to Great Britain.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Nec mora, fugit amor, &c.——— Hither Deucalion came, when Pyrrha's love Tormented him, and leapt down to the sea, And had no harm at all, but by and by His love was gone and chased quite away.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And now came more bustle than ever; a great running hither and thither, a rapping of hammers and a babble of voices sounded everywhere through the place, for the folk were building great arches across the streets, beneath which the King was to pass, and were draping these arches with silken banners and streamers of many colors.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Lamb had another aunt, but of her we know nothing.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But the sin itself and the tempest, which optimistic theology has to attribute just as much to God's purposes, are not attributed to him at all by pious feeling, but rather to his enemies.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In a little while they heard an alarm behind them, and knew that their escape was discovered, and then they saw the blazing pine knots waving through the trees where the Cherokee were coming on looking for them.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

,” said Sybil, dropping her arms and bending her head in woe; “a kind good friend.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

So, he heaved a sigh over the recollections he awakened; and being, happily for himself, an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages of the musty book.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Hampton, in reply, said, that his men could bring no more provisions than they wanted for (p. 300) their own use, and informed him, in short, that he should not cooperate with him at all, but make the best of his way back to Lake Champlain.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

The fact that the high Alps are beautiful in winter also was not popularly realised till recently.
— from The Alps by Conway, William Martin, Sir

At the outset Brother Gorgias's passionate recriminations had seemed to be prompted merely by his anger at being so brutally abandoned after serving as a docile instrument; but at present veiled threats began to mingle with his reproaches.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

The princess who reared him saw not the glorious destiny which lay hid, as a birth-jewel, in his little basket of reeds.
— from A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe

The collection of armor in an apartment of the Tower called the Horse Armory, a building over one hundred and fifty feet long, presented a spectacle that filled our visitors with wonder.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

[116] No where had arbitrary authority been exercised more unmercifully towards the revolutionists than by Earl Cornwallis and Lord Rawdon in South and North Carolina.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

The mountebank, however, addressed his audience from a stage, and made his address attractive by mixing up with it music, dancing, and tumbling; sometimes, also, equestrianism on the green of a village; and by having always the services of a merry-andrew, or clown.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Ordinary men are satisfied with this enjoyment; the highest are allured by its temptation.
— from An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Thomas Hill Green

A despatch addressed to Wyatt on the 10th of March contains a long recital of the extraordinary treatment which his Ambassadors at Brussels had met with:
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

3,260.--BRAN DUSTER.--W. Huntley and A. Babcock, Silver Creek, N.Y.
— from Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various