Leaves alternate, broad lanceolate, entire, glabrous, the apices curved downward.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He made the common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience, when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease, and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation, and wish to return to it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

As Miss Pole observed, “As most of the ladies of good family in Cranford were elderly spinsters, or widows without children, if we did not relax a little, and become less exclusive, by-and-by we should have no society at all.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

He also had the privilege of {33} going into the town of Lille and buying little extras, though at a very costly price, as we soon found out.
— from My German Prisons Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War by Horace Gray Gilliland

He had known a ton of 'lunge and bass landed every day for the first week.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

B. “ Una estatua de San Josef, que por su corpulencia no se podia sacar oculta la extrajo un catolico llamado Josef Martin de Medina, colocado sobre un caballo à imitacion de una persona que lo montaba; la afianzó bien, la embozó con una capa
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

Indeed, when the wind carries the fumes so that they descend into nearby standing waters, there can be seen floating in it something like a bituminous liquid, either black, or brown, or purple, which is sufficient to indicate that those stones were bituminous.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

| Translated into English first by D. Henrie Parry, and late-|ly conferred with the last and best Latine Edition of | D. David Parevs Professor of Divinity | in Heidelberge .
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

This was no other than Miss Leydell, a beautiful lady eighteen years of age, with blue eyes, fair hair, rows of pearls for teeth—in fact, a real Sylphide, a sight of whom would have driven Taglioni to despair.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

Cast in the lap of naked nature, and exposed to every hardship, the forms of women, in savage life, are but little engaging.
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

"Well, if I would be the United States government I wouldn't let a Bolshevik land exactly," Abe declared.
— from Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things by Montague Glass

The latter are now no longer given to feeding as before, but cease from their labors, and bend listening ears to the gushing notes of love which swell around.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry