Stevie, after helping to carry inside a lot of small parcels, came out and stood under the light of a gas-lamp belonging to the Charity.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The inlets the Lacedaemonians meant to close with a line of ships placed close together, with their prows turned towards the sea, and, meanwhile, fearing that the enemy might make use of the island to operate against them, carried over some heavy infantry thither, stationing others along the coast.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Europeans can not possibly understand how any lady of social position can be without a maid.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Lucevan li occhi suoi piu` che la stella; e cominciommi a dir soave e piana, con angelica voce, in sua favella: "O anima cortese mantoana, di cui la fama ancor nel mondo dura, e durera` quanto 'l mondo lontana, l'amico mio, e non de la ventura, ne la diserta piaggia e` impedito si` nel cammin, che
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A look of solemn pride came portentously on his shaven square old face, he rolled his head in his stand-up collar, like a turkey-cock preening himself.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

See Jocelin's life of St. Patrick, Colgan, and Bollandus, ad
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

of lean mutton, cut into short strips; ½ lb. of salt pork, chopped; ½ onion, minced; chopped parsley and thyme; 1 cup of milk; 1 tablespoonful of flour wet up with the milk; pepper and salt.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

of Moscow, I 36 Guizot , French Premier, supports schemes of Russian-Jewish emigration to Algiers, II 69 Gumbiner, Abel , head of yeshibah in Kalish, Hebrew author, I 200 Gumplovich , Polish-Jewish writer and assimilator, II 213 Günzberg, Baron Joseph Yozel , leader of St. Petersburg community, petitions Alexander II.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Età, aggiungevano un anno, il quale sempre veniva in una di queste lettere o segni perchè come ogni lettera o segno di questi vinti habbia tredici del suo genere che le servano, verbi gratiâ .'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

—These beds lie on South Prairie Creek and Carbon River, tributaries of the Puyallup River.
— from A Report on Washington Territory by William Henry Ruffner

Men mourned over the Fairlop Oak, in Hainault Forest hard by, when it was blown down in 1820, because it had been forty-five feet in girth "and its boughs shadowed an area of 300 ft."—the passage is quoted because its meaning is not too clear—and it is said that the pulpit and lectern of St. Pancras Church were made of the timber.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

[148] Life of Sir Peter Carew ; Walton’s Life of Hooker ; Ware’s Writers of Ireland .
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

His great right arm, with its long, hairy fingers and its single massive ring, was like the limb of some prehistoric creature.
— from The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim