Kitty and Levin would be of the party, and that this might not be obtrusively evident, there would be a girl cousin too, and young Shtcherbatsky, and la pièce de resistance among the guests—Sergey Koznishev and Alexey Alexandrovitch.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“It may even be said that it is the duty of a captain to come and survey any land or island not yet known, and Lincoln Island is in this position.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Both the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman she knew and liked; but the awkward Pumpkinhead and Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug were creatures she had never seen before, and they seemed even more curious than the others.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Nagpupútol ang kapus, ang labis ay nagdurugtong , What is short cuts off a piece from itself, what is long adds another on (the poor gets poorer, the rich richer).
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

And from the carven-work behind him crept Two dragons gilded, sloping down to make Arms for his chair, while all the rest of them Through knots and loops and folds innumerable Fled ever through the woodwork, till they found The new design wherein they lost themselves, Yet with all ease, so tender was the work:
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

This king also left behind him a pyramid, much smaller than that of his father, of a square shape and measuring on each side three hundred feet lacking twenty, built moreover of Ethiopian stone up to half the height.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

As the car crossed the zone of scattered dwellings that separated Oakland from Berkeley, he kept a lookout for a familiar, two-story building along the front of which ran the proud sign, HIGGINBOTHAM’S CASH STORE.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The dailies and associated press reports heralded these men to the country as "toughs," and "Negro desperadoes who kept a low dive."
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isoud out of Ireland for to come into Cornwall.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In reply I sent Katy a long and, I confess, a very tedious letter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He rubbed his chin, said, “I don’t know,” and looked at the dog.
— from Comrades: A Drama in Three Acts by George M. (George Melville) Baker

CHAPTER XXXII How it became clearly known at Lima that there was a rebellion in Cuzco and that the artillery had been taken, which gave the Viceroy much anxiety.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

No. 85 was once the royal monastery known as les Récollettes, subsequently in turn a theatre, a dancing saloon, a concert hall.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

Besides the few almost legendary pieces, it claims to contain armour of Lord Brooke, killed at Lichfield, of Montrose, the target of the Pretender, and Cromwell’s helmet.
— from Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner

Nevertheless, I give them in the hope that they may help to preserve that impression of his personality which remains on the minds of those who knew and loved him—an impression at once so vivid and so untranslatable into words.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

I am not up in the management of orang- outangs, but Vandy has skill in almost everything of this kind; at least he is safer than I, there being a good deal of the incipient doctor about Vandy, and I search for him in this emergency.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

I've known a lot of women one way and another.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

A week slipped by; time after time I had the man under observation; often when I had charge of the deck I'd leave the captain to keep a look out, and steal below and watch Major Hood in his cabin.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Let this boil, then add fruit, cook until clear and you think it is done; seal up in jars and keep at least two weeks before using.
— from The Cookery Blue Book by First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work

It was about ten miles out from Santiago, at a point known as La Guasima.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris