There were two great aloes, in tubs, on the turf outside the windows; the broad hard leaves of which plant (looking as if they were made of painted tin) have ever since, by association, been symbolical to me of silence and retirement.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

On the wall of the Chapter-house of S. Maria Novella—besides Petrarca and Madonna Laura, as it has been said above—Simone portrayed Cimabue, the architect Lapo, his son Arnolfo, and himself, and in the person of that Pope who is in the scene he painted Benedetto XI of Treviso, one of the Preaching Friars, the likeness of which Pope had been brought to Simone long before by Giotto, his master, when he returned from the Court of the said Pope, who had his seat in Avignon.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Meanwhile, our guide was looking on with profound calmness and indifference.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Something more than is usually found in the looks of women painted itself,' says Riouffe, ( Memoires, Sur les Prisons, i., pp.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

To the Ant, her neighbour, she Went to moan her penury, Praying for a loan of wheat, [Pg 4] Just to make a loaf to eat, Till the sunshine came again.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Madame Stahl talked to Kitty as to a charming child that one looks on with pleasure as on the memory of one’s youth, and only once she said in passing that in all human sorrows nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ’s compassion for us no sorrow is trifling—and immediately talked of other things.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Châtelet, on the contrary, was less involved in intrigue, less occupied with politics, and was daily engaged in adjudicating in cases of litigation, and thus it rendered innumerable services in promoting the public welfare, and maintained, and even increased, the respect which it had enjoyed from the commencement of its existence.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Now the heathen begins to think all is their own, and the poor Christians' hopes to fail (as to man) and now their eyes are more to God, and their hearts sigh heaven-ward; and to say in good earnest, "Help Lord, or we perish."
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

She looked on what passed between you and her before the trouble as a true marriage in the sight of God.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

10 lb. of chrome alum will tan about 100 lb. of wet pelt, but more must be used for the [215] first parcel; as to avoid loss of time, the skins may be tanned out in a pretty strong liquor.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Fragments of rook, logs of wood, ponderous iron shot, were rolled over the parapet, mingled with combustibles and hand-grenades, which, exploding as they descended, shattered the ladders, and hurled the mangled bodies of the assailants on the rocky bottom of the ditch.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

In the street, a continuous line of wagons passed them, moving southward.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

If you can live on what pittance is left to you—" "I can save it."
— from Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

We can defy a hull army of them bloody-minded miscreants, fight them off all right, and by mornin there'll be lots of wagons passin by, an we can git help.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

Wa-ha-che-ra, Big Knife , a partizan or leader of war parties.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

And Anaxandrides in his Theseus, says:— When he ate olives like our worthy Plato.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Life of Whitgift , p. 350, 361, 389.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

"I have given you this home—I, who have sought for you—prayed—prayed, father, not as you pray, but madly, wildly prayed for one look, one word—pardon, pardon!
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens