It was not that Mr. Bulstrode intended to frequent Lowick Church or to reside at Stone Court for a good while to come: he had bought the excellent farm and fine homestead simply as a retreat which he might gradually enlarge as to the land and beautify as to the dwelling, until it should be conducive to the divine glory that he should enter on it as a residence, partially withdrawing from his present exertions in the administration of business, and throwing more conspicuously on the side of Gospel truth the weight of local landed proprietorship, which Providence might increase by unforeseen occasions of purchase.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

r his eyes, or a curly-haired girl in gorgeous array, promenading down a ball-room on the arm of a tall gentleman, both faces being left a blur according to the last fashion in art, which was safe, but not altogether satisfactory.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She never had much to show when she came home, but was studying nature, I dare say, while she sat for hours, with her hands folded, on the terrace at Valrosa, or absently sketched any fancy that occurred to her, a stalwart knight carved on a tomb, a young man asleep in the grass, with his hat over his eyes, or a curly haired girl in gorgeous array, promenading down a ballroom on the arm of a tall gentleman, both faces being left a blur according to the last fashion in art, which was safe but not altogether satisfactory.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lloyd and Bulow attribute to these lines no other importance than that arising from their relations to the depots of the army: the latter has even asserted that when an army is encamped near its depots it has no lines of operations.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

But that magistrates, doing the same thing, may be resisted, hath of late been denied: as if those who had the greatest privileges and advantages by the law, had thereby a power to break those laws, by which alone they were set in a better place than their brethren: whereas their offence is thereby the greater, both as being ungrateful for the greater share they have by the law, and breaking also that trust, which is put into their hands by their brethren.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The form of Hawkeye had crouched like a beast about to take its spring, and his frame trembled so violently with eagerness that the muzzle of the half-raised rifle played like a leaf fluttering in the wind.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

These words might with very little alteration be ascribed to the subject of which this volume is supposed—indeed hoped—to be a handbook.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Beata mors quae ad beatam vitam aditum aperit , 'tis a blessed hour that leads us to a [3881] blessed life, and blessed are they that die in the Lord.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There be also many other beasts, full wicked and cruel, that be not mickle more than a bear, and they have the head like a boar, and they have six feet, and on every foot two large claws, trenchant; and the body is like a bear, and the tail as a lion.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

He snatched them to him, cuffing like a bear and trampling them into the snow.
— from Pardners by Rex Beach

The owl was crouched as she had been when the moon left her—crouched, and with her wings just a little open, like a bird about to take flight; but she had already taken wing on the longest flight of all.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

The low area became at that time the Forum, “marketplace” of the new city.
— from The Mentor: Among the Ruins of Rome, Vol. 1, Num. 46, Serial No. 46 by George Willis Botsford

Joyful to my ear were the sounds of parting; and having extricated myself, I scarcely know how, from this "unreal mockery," I took my leave, with a promise to call upon her Ladyship, and, bidding adieu to the rest of her Court , I bounded over every obstacle of rock or brush-wood, that separated me from my own party, and never felt the triumph of nature and good sense to be so complete as when I regained their society, and listened once more to their refreshing conversation.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

Then take a file or a bit of glass and scratch a little the place where you mean to begin your section; then take the wood red hot from the fire, and lay the point of it about the twentieth part of an inch, or thickness of a guinea, from the marked place; taking care to blow always on that point in order to keep it red; follow the drawing traced on the glass, leaving, as before, about the twentieth part of an inch interval every time that you present your piece of wood, which you must take care to blow often.
— from Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments Composed and Performed in Different Capitals of Europe, and in London by Giuseppe Pinetti

Then if the two adjacent angles Green, Red, are equal to all the angular space on the line a b , and the two right angles are also equal to the 91 same space, what do you infer concerning the adjacent angles and the two right angles ?
— from Marks' first lessons in geometry In two parts. Objectively presented, and designed for the use of primary classes in grammar schools, academies, etc. by Bernhard Marks

But rather boldly they bost them of the same They note no thynge the mortall punysshement Taken on auoutrers in the olde testament Yet is another thynge more lothsome and vyle That many husbondes knowynge theyr wyues syn Absent themselfe and stop theyr iyen the whyle Kepynge the dore whyle the auoutrer is within They forse no thynge so they may money wyn Lyuynge as bawdes, and that to theyr owne wyues O cursyd money, this madnes thou contryuys O cursyd husbonde thou ought to be asshamyd To set so great fors for syluer or for golde
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

On the farm adjoining lived another boy and together they builded air-castles and procrastinated through the long, still evenings, when the work of the day was done.
— from Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman

The trouble that dear A. saved me in looking after baggage and tickets, the reliance I felt in his fighting weight and well set-up body, the placid smile with which he took life whatever it might be, were invaluable to me; and, though he accepted the ill-luck of our forenoon as only what he expected, as being, indeed, the ordinary outcome of most fishing expeditions, my chief desire was that he should have the bliss of landing a good fish.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior