They cost a great deal to publish and they have not a large enough sale to make them profitable to the publisher; but there are several institutions with special funds to pay for embossed books.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

When she had learnt enough she took my son into a distant place and changed him into a calf.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Pray do not take the above expression, “dear little eyes,” in an ironical sense—I mean it on the contrary as an endearing diminutive; your “dear little eyes” signify to me my adored, beautiful eyes, the mirrors of my soul, the stars of my heaven, everything that is most beautiful and fascinating, gentlest, noblest, and highest.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Stretching from the point indicated, there was on the right side of the way, a range of "park lots," extending some two miles to the west, all bounded on the south by what at the present time is Queen Street, but which, from being the great thoroughfare along the front of this very range, was long known as "Lot Street."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

403 , leaving a long end, sufficient to make the number of stitches required, lying within the palm of the hand.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

for by all the powers which animate the organ——Widow Wadman ’s left eye shines this moment as lucid as her right——there is neither mote, or sand, or dust, or chaff, or speck, or particle of opake matter floating in it—There is nothing, my dear paternal uncle!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In the time of Miss Fairlie's paternal grandfather (whom we will call Mr. Fairlie, the elder) the entailed succession to the Limmeridge estate stood thus— Mr. Fairlie, the elder, died and left three sons, Philip, Frederick, and Arthur.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

for by all the powers which animate the organ—Widow Wadman's left eye shines this moment as lucid as her right—there is neither mote, or sand, or dust, or chaff, or speck, or particle of opake matter floating in it—There is nothing, my dear paternal uncle!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Se li estus sidanta tie, mi vidus lin , if he were (if he should be) sitting there, I should see him .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

up, arms extended, even the lower edges, seize the middle points between the thumbs and forefingers, and flirt the outside part over the right arm; the blanket is thus held before placing it on the horse.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

I spread a double handful of small bullets on the table, running seventy to the pound, and let each slip through my fingers to make sure none was irregular.
— from A Virginia Scout by Hugh Pendexter

Actually the Silverton Railroad was later extended some two miles farther down the creek to Albany Gulch to pick up ore although Ironton was considered the real terminus.
— from Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots by Caroline Bancroft

A very great Shereef indeed from lower Egypt, said to me the other day, ‘Thou knowest if I am a Muslim or no.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

It’s been bothering me quite a little ever since this matter of going away to fight has been in my mind.
— from The Search by Grace Livingston Hill

But Madame Beavor, in a white bonnet lined with lilac, was hanging, sentimentally, on the arm of the Pole, who looked very grand with his white favour; and Mr. Higgins had been introduced, by Mr. Love, to a little dark Creole, who wore paste diamonds, and had very languishing eyes; so that Mr. Love's heart might well swell with satisfaction at the prospect of the various blisses to come, which might owe their origin to his benevolence.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It must be stated that as the tube was lifted each step, the masonry was built up from below, and then as the next lift proceeded inch by inch, a slab of wood was placed under the ends.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

o' the matter, 'tis best, I think, to keep it from her—at least until we are sure, moreover 'tis like enough she—" the Major paused to rub his chin dubiously, "'tis very like she would only——" "Laugh, your honour?" "Hum!" said the Major.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

One quarter of them—two thousand five hundred—pick up brush, pieces of rail, splits from logs, etc., sufficient to make huts that will turn the rain tolerably.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4 by John McElroy

I have left everything so that my work could be taken up by anybody to-morrow."
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair