But the line is drawn at rice, which must be prepared by one of equal caste or class, or by a superior.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

At length I detected a ray of light struggling through a closed shutter in one of the upper rooms—it was a novel feeling, alas!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His countenance to see, Supports me like imperial drams Afforded royally.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

As I was crossing the great square lost in wonder and admiration of the magnificent architecture and the gorgeous scarlet vegetation which carpeted the broad lawns I discovered a red Martian walking briskly toward me from one of the avenues.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

They then began making towards the curtain; whereon I let it drop and retreated to a reasonable distance.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The loft is dry and roomy, the best shelter from the storm and the tempest, although not always from the tempest of man's insensate animosity.
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

I arrived late, in darkness and rain, and was obliged to dress instantly to go to a ball at Hatfield, which Lady Salisbury gives on a certain day of the week to the neighbourhood, during the whole time of her residence in the country.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

You really had a valuable right of way, with valuable franchises and concessions, and the Lewisville, Battlesburg and Elliston Traction Line is doing a ripping business; so I'll forgive you, especially since you're not an individual criminal at all.
— from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer by George Randolph Chester

Like all fugitive colours, it is comparatively stable when used in body; but even then it entirely loses its depth and richness, and in a great measure its redness, becoming faded and yellowish.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Then that Chárwáka laughed in derision, and replied: My good Sir, you are a fool.
— from A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

So went chantries and obits into the royal coffers, the list in Dugdale, as returned to the Court, filling ten folio pages; while but little commiseration was felt for the hard lot of these illiterate chaplains deprived of their livelihood.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Arthur Dimock

Hold not thy knife upright but sloping, and lay it down at right hand of plate with blade on plate.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman