He was at this time in the 71st year of his age, and being afflicted with a violent ague caught in his late cold and desolate habitation on the lake, it soon threw him into a fever of the most dangerous nature.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
As she ran to me, and held out the letter, I saw that it was postmarked San Francisco!
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison
TRINIDAD It may be worth while to spend a few pages in telling something of the history of this lovely island since the 31st of July 1499, when Columbus, on his third voyage, sighted the three hills in the south-eastern part.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley
Up above here, on this lake, I see that the mountains come close together, and there is only just room enough for the water to get through.
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell
The muscles may be trained into the habit of keeping the shoulders straight or letting them droop; those of the back, to keep the body well up on the hips, or to let it sag; those of locomotion, to give us a light, springy step, or to allow a shuffling carriage; those of speech, to give us a clear-cut, accurate articulation, or a careless, halting one; and those of the face, to give us a cheerful cast of countenance, or a glum and morose expression.
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
In two minutes Fââ is on board, and in two minutes more I am in a boat alongside, being swiftly rowed to the flat shore of Port Louis through a crowd of shipping, for the fine harbor of the little island seems to attract to itself an enormous number of vessels.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
'Perhaps it's heaps of things, like I said, to eat with the plain living,' said H. O. And bright visions of hampers full of the most superior tuck winged our young legs as we cut along home.
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit
He was not the man to worry any woman into marrying him, or to lay insidious siege to her friends.
— from Heart and Cross by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
For the head of the latter is supposed to have been cut off by his brother and to have been buried upon a brazen shield, a cult story which plays a part especially in the Mysteries of the Cabiri Gods, to whom Cadmus belongs (cf.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews
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