Here was the show-trial, so long evaded, come on me like a thunder-clap.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
He looked a little disappointed at this intelligence, and muttering something about wishing to see my lady, or going to look for my lady (the servant did not clearly distinguish his words), strode away from the door without leaving either card or message for the family.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The next remarkable object was a large edifice, constructed of moss-grown stone, but in a modern and airy style of architecture.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Just as he was goin’ away our ’Lizabeth Ellen called out, ‘Mother, he’s got skippin’-ropes with red an’ blue handles.’
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Just as he was goin' away our 'Lizabeth Ellen called out, 'Mother, he's got skippin'-ropes with red an' blue handles.'
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
And, indeed, to read over that chapter of Pliny wherein he has collected the miseries and misfortunes of Augustus Cæsar, whom, of all mankind, one would judge most fortunate,—as 381 he had a certain art of using and enjoying prosperity, with a mind no way tumid, light, effeminate, confused, or melancholic,—one cannot but think this a very great and powerful goddess, who could bring such a victim to her altar.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
3. Fucate in show, by some error or hypocrisy; some seem and are not; or truly for virtue, honesty, good parts, learning, eloquence, &c. or Mixed of all three, which extends to M. 3.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Those fearful ex-Christians, the Janizaries, who were scourges of Christianity, look very mild now as they stand fatuously together, no longer either Christian or Mussulman but fatally Madame Tussaud.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various
[288] With rare exceptions, the greatest men of art and letters have never disdained, though they might not love, what one of them called "honest journey-work in default of better"; and when those exceptions come to be examined—as in the leading English cases of Milton
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
When the Portuguese navigator Magalhães, whom we call Magellan, sailed up what he hoped might prove a passageway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a sailor on lookout, catching sight of this little eminence, cried out, “Monte vid’ eu!
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck
And if it may be said that the insistence of racial circumstance in Homer gives him a greater intensity of cordial, human inspiration, it must also be said that the larger, less exacting conditions of Milton's mental life allow his art to go into greater scope and more subtle complexity of significance.
— from The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie
Dust cloth Oil mop Silver cleaner 3—Laundry Equipment Electric washing machine Electric wringer “ iron or set of irons Set of tubs, wooden or galvanized iron Clothes stick Clothes mangle Ironing board Clothes rack Boiler Clothes sprinkler Patent clothesline Clothespins Clothespin bag or apron Clothes hamper Clothes basket Bottle bluing Starch High-grade laundry soap Ammonia Beeswax Borax Meat Cookery TO PREPARE LESS EXPENSIVE CUTS OF MEATS Fireless cooker Pressure cooker Self basting roaster Meat chopper Chafing dish Double boiler Casseroles Baking pan Pyrex , square , oblong , oval Aluminum , square Tin , various sizes and shapes Scoring knife Meat plank
— from The Business of Being a Housewife A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy by Jean Prescott Adams
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