Half the pleasure of a feeling lies in being able to express it on the spur of the moment, and I let out mine.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The wild rice has a greenish-yellow stem, with longer joints and without leaves; it branches at the end into the seed-receptacles, and is not found in such large patches.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

To sit up after the family has gone to bed, to lie in bed after the entire family have risen, to be late at meals, to be writing an important letter or doing some mending when the carriage is at the door for a drive, or wish to go to drive when the carriage has been dismissed, to be too tired to attend the dinner or reception given in one's honor, to fail to keep appointments for the stroll or some sport because one wants to do something else,—these things show a total lack of consideration on the [143] part of the guest, and make it impossible to enjoy her stay or wish for her return.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

I lay in bed at the end of the officers' ward, with only one other bed between me and the wall.
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

He also had a shelf made to rest the telephones on and had others like it built at the Exchange National and the Hide and Leather banks.
— from Ted and the Telephone by Sara Ware Bassett

His work was largely in bronze, and the earlier gates of the Baptistery in Florence are by him.
— from Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

She did not look ill, but as their eyes met he was conscious of a distinct shock.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Beginning with "American Liberty," issued by Anderson, the editor of the new patriotic weekly, The Constitutional Gazette , he published pamphlet after pamphlet in rapid succession, all of them throwing upon Gage and the British cause in Boston all the satire and invective
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

His main desire was for the establishment of Catholicism as the only means of ensuring the obedience of his people; and his old love of France was quickened by the firm reliance which he placed on the aid of Lewis in bringing about that establishment.
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

The tides, running through the narrow portion, to fill up the large inland basin and to empty it again, keep the narrow part scoured to a great depth.
— from River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them. by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis