'Boswell is a bolder combatant than Sir Joshua: he argues for wine without the help of wine; but Sir Joshua with it.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

'You might have given a worse opinion,' said Mr Inspector, after brief consideration.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Of these one, terminating in a blunt convex extremity, is about 2′ 3″ long; the other, with a hemispherical cavity scooped out close to one end, about 2½″ in length.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Jude hastened on, and soon had the pleasure of observing a man in a black coat and a black slouched felt hat no considerable distance ahead.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Tabangan nátù nig káun kay daghan, Let’s all of us help eat this because there’s so much. 5 [A; a1] hook in a big catch with a gaff.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The affair was indecisive, if a battle can be called so in which an inferior force attacks a superior, inflicts an equal loss, and frustrates the main object of the enemy.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

That is to say, great masses were brought into action, and managed throughout it by means of an order of battle, which like a great helpless whole required a more or less level plain and was neither suited to attack, nor yet to defence in a broken, close or even mountainous country.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“And is it possible that this frightful combination of crimes has been invented by a woman?” “Do you recollect in the arbor of the Hôtel des Postes, at Perugia, seeing a man in a brown cloak, whom your stepmother was questioning upon aqua tofana ?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I began walking, therefore, in a big curve, seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand-heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In your meetings, if attacked, be cool and good-natured, for if you are simple and truth-loving no 067 sophistry can confound you.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So the dainty feast, with its artistic refinement and music, ends at last in a brutal carouse, and the heads anointed with the most costly unguents drop in drunken slumber.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

THE INVALIDS AT BOISVERT CHAPTER IX.
— from The Trampling of the Lilies by Rafael Sabatini

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— from A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Archibald Alexander

He took her permission for granted, and sat down in a bamboo chair on the veranda, leaning back, and staring up at her with easy insolence.
— from Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

The traveler went on foot or in a bullock cart or on a horse which he bought for the purpose.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5 by Mark Twain

How to Lard Larding is accomplished by cutting strips of salt pork lengthwise with the rind two inches long and one quarter inch wide, and with aid of the larding needle drawing these pieces through the surface of the meat, taking a stitch an inch long and a quarter inch deep.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

I was in a boat crossing the Marne.
— from The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Instead of boiling your pudding in a mold, you may tie it securely in a buttered cloth, place it in a saucepan with some boiling water, and boil it six hours; remove the cloth, and serve with a sauce, with rum, of the preceding articles, or sprinkle powdered sugar on top; pour some rum over the pudding, light it, and serve burning.
— from French Dishes for American Tables by Caron, Pierre, active 1886-1899

Most fortunately the fall was at a place where the fissure was only about three feet wide, opening either way into a broad crevasse.
— from True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely