As I was seated in this musing mood a small panelled door in an arch at the upper end of the hall was opened, and a number of gray-headed old men, clad in long black cloaks, came forth one by one, proceeding in that manner through the hall, without uttering a word, each turning a pale face on me as he passed, and disappearing through a door at the lower end.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

So home, and Balty and I to look Mr. Fenn at Sir G. Carteret’s office in Broad Streete, and there missing him and at the banker’s hard by, we home, and I down by water to Deptford Dockyard, and there did a little business, and so home back again all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, called “The Virtuoso, or the Stoicke,” proposing many things paradoxical to our common opinions, wherein in some places he speaks well, but generally is but a sorry man.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[Pg 216] While the family is listed by Cooley among primary groups, the notion is gaining ground that it is primary in a unique sense which sets it apart from all other social groups.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Was it law business connected with the property?' asked Margaret, in a constrained voice.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But as the events are contrary, and it is impossible both these figures can be turned up; the impulses likewise become contrary, and the inferior destroys the superior, as far as its strength goes.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

laces and edging, fine black veils, white do., fine silk mitts, love-handkerchiefs, Barcelona do., silk do., black crape, [190] black mode, black Belong, blue, white and yellow do., striped silk for gowns, Chambray muslins, printed dimity, split-straw bonnets, Leghorn do., imperial chip do., best London Ladies' beaver bonnets, cotton wire, Rutland gauze, band boxes, cambrics, calicoes, Irish linens, callimancoes, plain muslins, laced muslins, blue, black and yellow nankeens, jeans, fustians, long silk gloves, velvet ribbons, Russia sheetings, India satins, silk and cotton umbrellas, parasols, white cottons, bombazetts, black and white silk stockings, damask table cloths, napkins, cotton, striped nankeens, bandana handkerchiefs, catgut, Ticklenburg, brown holland, Creas à la Morlaix, Italian lutestring, beaver caps for children.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

1a2 for a moving vehicle to run another vehicle out of its lane by cutting in on him or coming against him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thus if a post 10 inches long before compression is 9.9 inches long under the compressive stress, the total strain is 0.1 inch, and the unit strain is l 0.1 --- = -----
— from The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. (Samuel James) Record

They assailed it long, but could get nothing in but the points of their spears, all of which Illugi severed from their shafts.
— from The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga by Unknown

Short sentences are joined to one another with the utmost simplicity; the vocabulary is limited, but contains expressions of extraordinary richness; the total effect is singularly powerful.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

May not all intrigues in love be confined in these words—entering and leaving?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

This is deplorable, but if license be conceded in one direction it cannot be withheld in another.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley