On the side of the instrument farthest from the terrace Miss Halcombe was sitting with the letters scattered on her lap, and with one in her hand selected from them, and held close to the candle.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

There is a bridge cast over the river, not of timber, but of fair stone, consisting of many stately arches; it lies at that part of the town which is farthest from the sea, so that the ships, without any hindrance, lie all along the side of the town.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

The dispatch had not been sent, but Sheridan sent a special messenger with it to Burkesville and had it forwarded from there.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

If it was adopted, however, Great Britain would not only be immediately freed from the whole annual expense of the peace establishment of the colonies, but might settle with them such a treaty of commerce as would effectually secure to her a free trade, more advantageous to the great body of the people, though less so to the merchants, than the monopoly which she at present enjoys.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The less aristocratic officers of the 97th devoted themselves to the families of the less important functionaries from the dockyard.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Sir, quoth my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Dr. Slop, —the curtins my brother Shandy mentions here, have nothing to do with beadsteads;—tho’, I know Du Cange says, “ That bed-curtains, in all probability, have taken their name from them;”—nor have the horn-works he speaks of, any thing in the world to do with the horn-works 195 of cuckoldom: But the Curtin, Sir, is the word we use in fortification, for that part of the wall or rampart which lies between the two bastions and joins them—Besiegers seldom offer to carry on their attacks directly against the curtin, for this reason, because they are so well flanked.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

That whereas the late King did mortgage ‘Clarendon’ to somebody for L20,000, and this to have given it to the Duke of Albemarle, and he sold it to my Lord Chancellor, whose title of Earldome is fetched from thence; the King hath this day sent his order to the Privy Seale for the payment of this L20,000 to my Lord Chancellor, to clear the mortgage!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He was aristocratical too in his notions, keeping aloof, as I found, from the ordinary run of pensioners.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

105 [ 176 ] From the same source I obtained this charm, addressed to the Deer, but intended for fixing the scent ( mĕnĕtapkan bau ), and for suspending the toils ( mĕmasang jĕrat ):— “ Teng 106 [stands for] the satengteng flower, Ascend ye the twin stream.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Though what she said was perfectly reasonable, it stung me to the quick; when one is in an ill humour, everything is fuel for the fire.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[150] from the high park, which, that nothing might be left with the name of the king about it, they had dug up by the roots, and bundled up into faggots for their firing.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

The wounded brute has darted up one tree and clawed the man there in fearful fashion; then, quick as lightning, it has descended, climbed into the second tree, and attacked its second assailant.
— from Peeps at Many Lands—India by John Finnemore

Then he flung on her the rug, the table-cover, his coat, and one of the window-curtains, tearing it fiercely from the rings.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I have been trying to remember whether I fasted all the way to Macon, which I reached at an advanced hour of the evening, and think I must have done so except for the purchase of a box of nougat at Monte- limart (the place is famous for the manufacture of this confection, which, at the station, is hawked at the windows of the train) and for a bouillon, very much later, at Lyons.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

An aperture, constructed in a similar manner to that of a trap for catching mice, is left in the inclosure farthest from the shore, opening into the second or smaller inclosure, which has likewise an entrance on the land side, from which runs a fence of basket-work to high water mark.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

In February following the general answered it.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Oh! as for me, I’m Flemish to the core; my heart actually bleeds to see the coppersmiths buying up our beautiful inlaid furniture for the mere value of the wood and the metal.
— from The Alkahest by Honoré de Balzac

Perhaps he did not wish me to know it, for fear that through all my life I should brood over thoughts of that noble heart lost to me forever.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

Thus both were reconciled, his imagination freed from temptation, and the poetry of the crabbed books, which were so different from Cicero, made suddenly clear to his troubled eyes.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant