He raised the horse's legs and felt them one after another, passed his hand over the animal's neck, flank and hocks, opened his mouth, examined his teeth, declared his age; and then, the whole household having collected round him, he delivered a discourse on the horse in general and the specimen before him in particular, pronouncing the latter excellent in every respect.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then make an increase in every row to the left and leave the last loop empty in every row to the right.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The form 58 of the capital may be called bell-shaped, and it is set round with two rows of leaves, eight in each row; above these is a third row of leaves, or of a sort of small twisted husks, which supports eight small volutes.
— from A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

The scholarship of the Renaissance had discovered the true text of the old Roman Civil Code, and one of the features of that time of transition—perhaps its most important and far-reaching feature, for law enters into every relation of human life—was the substitution of civil law based on the Codes of Justinian and Theodosius, for canon law based on the Decretum of Gratian.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Today, thought Barney, I'll take this child through to Lustadt even if every ragged brigand in Lutha lies between us and the capital; but even as he spoke a sudden crashing of underbrush behind caused him to wheel about, and there, not twenty paces from them, stood two of Yellow Franz's cutthroats.
— from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The most fascinating love episode I ever read was the Nuptial Flight in Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee .
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

The History of England in Verse, from the Norman Conquest to the reign of Queen Victoria ; with an Appendix, comprising a summary of the leading events in each reign.
— from Live Toys; Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport

By their joint efforts it is now possible to supply the most inhospitable shore with a belt of lights equal in every respect to those mounting sentinel over the more densely populated reaches of coast in the civilized parts of the globe.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

ROMAN AUTHORS.—Pre-eminent among all ancient writers on these subjects is, of course, Pliny, and in fact, except some few lines by Vitruvius, there is practically little else in extant Roman literature of technical interest, for the metallurgical metaphors of the poets and orators were threadbare by this time, and do not excite so much interest as upon their first appearance among the Greeks and Hebrews.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola