But she became conscious of the two strangers who suddenly paused as if to contemplate the Cleopatra, and, without looking at them, immediately turned away to join a maid-servant and courier who were loitering along the hall at a little distance off.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

My short stay here gave me another opportunity to look about this interesting town, and to realize its charms at the prettiest season of the year.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier

So like are they in their actions, that one would think they copied one another.
— from Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner

With the results of this labor and their interest, they are to pay their board, and also purchase whatever else they require at cost, at the warehouses of the Community, which are to be filled by the Community as such.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

After a while the land attracted them in turn, and they came back with their hands full of flowers, some known, some unknown; great bunches of honeysuckle, curious sand-plants, and cliff-plants; also water-plants, which fringed a little rivulet that ran into the bay, while, growing everywhere abundantly, was the lovely grey-green cringo, or sea-holly.
— from An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

At dinner-time take it up with a large ladle, and transfer it to a tureen.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

They look luscious and tempting; indeed, they are tempting!
— from Getting Acquainted with the Trees by J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland

For instance, they would pick up, at a tavern, coach-office, the theatre, or other public place, some country gentleman, or even a clergyman, whom they would ply with liquor, and then induce to accompany them to ' their aunt's ,' where they would meet ' some delightful girls .'
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

He has no sort of apprehension, he laughs at the idea, that any thing can be discovered by any other scientific method, which can contradict any one of the dogmas of his religion.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman