Jos was surveying the queer little apartment in which he found his old flame.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

During his absence from England, Mrs. Brand and Julian were still to inhabit the Red House.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Sinister views would be imputed to all I could say; since, thus situated, to extol your judgment, would seem the effect of art, and to celebrate your impartiality, be attributing to suspecting it.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

There's no way a judge would say that all this stuff constituted any kind of real crime.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

bárut n the inedible pulp of the jackfruit which surrounds the edible flesh.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If the universal (the rule, the principle, the law) be 18 given, the Judgement which subsumes the particular under it (even if, as transcendental Judgement, it furnishes a priori , the conditions in conformity with which subsumption under that universal is alone possible) is determinant .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The journey, which seemed then so long, was to be made by wagons from Philadelphia to the head of navigation on Holston river, thence by boats to the Cherokee towns.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The favorite of Justinian was sacrificed to conjugal tenderness or domestic tranquility; the conversion of a praefect into a priest extinguished his ambitious hopes: but the friendship of the emperor alleviated his disgrace, and he retained in the mild exile of Cyzicus an ample portion of his riches.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But there were judges who said they were wonderful for a boy, and everybody predicted a splendid future for him.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

She had discovered 426 that she was more acceptable to Celia when she left the Brays out of her conversation, just as she was more acceptable to Judith when she turned it upon the Comptons.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

He spoke kindly to Joel, which seemed to loose the flood-gates of his grief, and for a time he continued to cry in the most piteous manner.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

For polishing their throwing-sticks, and the points of their lances, they use the leaves of a kind of wild fig-tree, which bites upon wood almost as keenly as the shave-grass of Europe, which is used by our joiners: With such tools, the making even such a canoe as I have described, must be a most difficult and tedious labour: To those who have been accustomed to the use of metal, it appears altogether impracticable; but there are few difficulties that will not yield to patient perseverance, and he who does all he can, will certainly produce effects that greatly exceed his apparent power.[94]
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

The Lord Chief Justice, who seems to have been a friend of Shakespeare's, sums up dead in his favour, and the jury (with whose names we are not supplied, which is a pity—Bunyan or De Foe would have given them to us), after a short absence, a quarter of an hour, return a Shakespearean verdict, which of course ought by rights to make the whole question res judicata .
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

The cavalry under General W. E. Jones was sent to arrest their march pending operations ordered for the 29th, and [Pg 504] he was authorized to call the artillery and infantry marching from Virginia to his assistance if the force proved formidable.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

“I came in about o-seven-hundred,” Jimenez was saying, “to give them food and water, and they’d broken out of their cages.
— from Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

This produced a class described by Jefferson who said: "There were then aristocrats, half-breeds, pretenders, a solid independent yeomanry, looking askance at those above, yet not venturing to jostle them, and last and lowest, a seculum of beings called overseers, the most abject, degraded and unprincipled race, always cap in hand to the Dons who employed them for furnishing material for the exercise of their price."
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

At this particular time the religious world, and many who were not of that stamp, were on the lookout for the end of the world, and the day of judgment, which some theological calculator had figured up for this year, and no postponement on account of the weather, sure!
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

Jerry was sniffing the air at a lively rate.
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen