It arrested his attention, and he sat pausing over it, until he took off the rusty colourless wisp that he wore round his throat, and substituted the red neckerchief, leaving the long ends flowing.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“Apropos,” said D’Artagnan, loud enough for the servant to hear him, “are you satisfied with Olivain?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Lamenti ſubito leuaſſemo lanchore et tirando molte bombarde nele caſe ne aꝓpinquaſſemo piu ala terra et cuſſi tirãdo vedeſſemo Johã ſeranno in camiza ligato et ferito gridare
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The Invitations Although the engraved card is occasionally used for an elaborate luncheon, especially for one given in honor of a noted person, formal invitations to lunch in very fashionable houses are nearly always written in the first person, and rarely sent out more than a week in advance.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The lamps were covered, but there was light enough for us to note his look of surprise.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Secundum moenia locus erat frondosis populis opacus, vitibusque sponte natis, tenuis prope aqua defluebat, placide murmurans, ubi sedile et domus Democriti conspiciebatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He had left early for the office, where he had plunged into an accumulation of unimportant business.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

He appointed Oxyartes viceroy, and Peithon general of the land extending from the confluence of the Indus and Acesines as far as the sea, together with all the coastland of India.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

H2 anchor CHAPTER XI Having already sufficiently considered the general principles of this subject, let us now go into the practical part thereof; the one is a liberal employment for the mind, the other necessary.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

At the end of S. Matthew's Gospel, in both Codices, are found those large extracts from the “2nd Hom.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

The aisle is covered with a round-arched waggon-vault; it has five recesses for altars; the easternmost seems to have a square east end, the next to it on either side have apses, and the others are very shallow recesses hardly large enough for altars.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

Their virtues must therefore be learnt, either from observing their effects upon insects and quadrupeds; from analogy, deduced from the already known powers of some of their congenera, or from the empirical usages and experience of the populace.
— from An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering

He smiled at his wife, standing nervous and frightened, her large eyes full of alarm.
— from Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick

"In Alladine and Palomides there is more than one scene in which silence is the principal speaker; so, for instance, when Alladine and Palomides meet on the bridge over the castle moat, and the girl's pet lamb escapes from her hands, slips, and rolls into the water: ALLADINE:
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

43 A), the former near the upper pole, appear simultaneously, and divide the ovum into three segments, two small, each with a protoplasmic pole, and one large entirely formed of yolk material.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Pernicious streams from healthy fountains rise, And Wit abus'd degenerates into vice; Timon, long practic'd in the School of art, 160 Has lost each finer feeling of the Heart, Triumphs o'er shame, and with delusive whiles, Laughs at the Idiot he himself beguiles.
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

You see, Collie, he's gettin' what you might call a liberated education, full of big ideas—no dinky stuff.
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Both had felt a kind of affection for the homely farmer and his wife—they sent many presents to them—but Beatrice would curl her proud lip in scorn when she read aloud that "Mr. And Mrs. Thorne desired their humble duty to Lady Earle." Lady Earle felt no anxiety about her son's return; looking at his daughters, she saw no fault in them.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame