His Features, Complexion, and Habit had a remarkable Effeminacy, and a certain languishing Vanity appeared in his Air: His Hair, well curl'd and powder'd, hung to a considerable Length on his Shoulders, and was wantonly ty'd, as if by the Hands of his Mistress, in a Scarlet Ribbon, which played like a Streamer behind him: He had a Coat and Wastecoat of blue Camlet trimm'd and embroidered with Silver; a Cravat of the finest Lace; and wore, in a smart Cock, a little Beaver Hat edged with Silver, and made more sprightly by a Feather.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

We found wagons hauling the mineral down the hill and returning empty, and in the mines quite a number of Sonora miners were blasting and driving for the beautiful ore (cinnabar).
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

'Blest if I believe such a Poll Parrot as you was ever learned to speak!' growled Mr Riderhood, stooping to pick up his hat, and making a feint at her with his head and right elbow; for he took the delicate subject of robbing seamen in extraordinary dudgeon, and was out of humour too.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Now, for facts we all, of course, have the greatest respect; but the objection appears to me to involve an unwarrantable restriction of the meaning of the word: a belief which is actually held, even a mere fancy that is entertained in the mind, has a real existence, and is a fact just as much as any other.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

When, then, Becky told him that the great crisis was near, and the time for action had arrived, Rawdon expressed himself as ready to act under her orders, as he would be to charge with his troop at the command of his colonel.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's head, and rises Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS PAGE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Ah, naughty, naughty, would you take a nip at the gentleman?" This to a stoat which thrust its wicked head and red eyes between the bars of its cage.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

In his phraseology he considers wisdom as the knowledge of things which can be understood by the intellect, and which have a real existence: which has the Gods for its object, and the soul as unconnected with the body.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[Ursule Mirouet.] ROUVRE (Chevalier du), younger brother of the Marquis du Rouvre; an eccentric old bachelor, who became wealthy by dealing in houses and real estate, and is supposed to have left his fortune to his niece, the Comtesse Clementine Laginska.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

"You were not hit anywhere," replied Elfreda.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert by Josephine Chase

Several small stars of a blood-red color have appearances resembling each other.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Pressing her left hand lovingly in his own, he took the card from her, and read:— “‘Engagements.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

"He's started the electric motor and is giving himself a ride," explained Johnny, "but if it's as bad as that, it must be pretty bad.
— from Triple Spies by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Could the man have had any reason even dimly to foresee his own sudden death, there would have been a new feature in his act of intemperance—a feature of presumption and irreverence, as in one that by possibility felt himself drawing near to the presence of God.
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

Strictly speaking, the problem is of course one of individuals rather than classes, but for the sake of convenience it will be treated as one of classes, it being understood that no individual should be put under restriction with eugenic intent merely because he may be supposed to belong to a given class; but that each case must be investigated on its own merits,—and investigated with much more care than has hitherto usually been thought necessary by many of those who have advocated restrictive eugenic measures.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

Set up a partnership, you to run around and attend to the patients while I will stay at home and, reading everything imaginable in English, German, and French, distil it in a concentrated form into your mind.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

A couple of miles farther on we came to a little church (upon our right), which dated from the twelfth century, and had a Romanesque entrance not unlike that of Santa Maria de Sar , a semicircular arch resting upon columns with sculptured capitals—only much rougher in its workmanship; the apse was eighteenth-century work, square in form and much higher than the nave.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

The Father gave her a raw egg and bade her hold it against her heart; he asked her to give it back to him, he broke it open and the egg was cooked.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

"Oh, I had set my Soldier Captain on the back of Mirabell's Lamb to give him a ride," explained the little boy.
— from The Story of a Calico Clown by Laura Lee Hope