Kate has at last inveigled her mother into letting her have an all-black dress which we rather suspect was bought with the especial purpose of impressing you with her advanced age and dignity!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Baluun kug higut ang listun, I’ll tie the lace in a slip knot.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Like his father, he was eager to bring the Hebrides under his sway, and this he was enabled to accomplish in a few years after the defeat of the Norse King Haco at Largs, in 1263.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We marvel at the telephone conversations across the continent of America, but each has within a latent sense of speech and hearing that is far more acute; we are surprised at the exploits of ships under sea and in the sky, but we are all capable of passage under water or through the sky; nay, more, we may pass unscathed through the solid rock and the raging fire, if we know how, and lightning itself is slow compared to the speed with which we [pg 016] may travel.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

"Well then, sire," replied Overbury, determined to make one more effort, "I had better tell my Lord of Rochester at once, not to keep him any longer in suspense.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Carl Kraus has also lately insisted** on the great influence which the quantity of water absorbed has on the periodic movements of leaves; and he believes that this cause chiefly determines the variable amount of sinking of the leaves of Polygonum convolvulus at night; and if so, their movements are not in our sense strictly nyctitropic.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

But [Pg 382] I would not consent, and when it was put to me to say I named Sherif Pasha, because he had declared himself in favour of a Mejliss el Nawwab, and I had known him a little in former times, in the time of Saïd Pasha, when he served with the army.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

To know him a little is to know her better, not so much from their likeness, but to learn what minds were dear to her.
— from Louise Imogen Guiney by Alice Brown

After he had spent an hour on the look-out from the "Golden Portcullis," under the pent-house of which he could keep himself a little in the shade, D'Artagnan observed a soldier leave the Bastille.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

But what matter what her head was like, or that every one knew how a long illness had treated her?
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

Cold, unsatisfying they may seem, these printed words, while we can yet speak with those who knew him, and look into eyes that once looked into his.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

There were left in the vicinity only Ouilmette and his family, who were the sole inhabitants of Chicago until the arrival, some time later, of a French trader named Du Pin, who took possession of the unoccupied Kinzie house and lived in it.
— from The Story of Old Fort Dearborn by J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour) Currey