Douglass gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman, on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay—viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living spirit of freedom.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

"I don't want to look strange or fixed up to-day," she said.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make a great point of punctiliousness, but who, directly they are crossed in anything, are completely disconcerted, and become more like sacks of flour than elegant and lively men of society.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lebensdauer eines Artikels life cycle of a product Lebensdauer eines Artikels life span of a product Lebenserwartung expectancy of life Lebenserwartung expectation of life Lebenserwartung life expectancy Lebenshaltungsindex cost of living index Lebenshaltungskosten cost of living Lebenshaltungskosten living costs Lebenshaltungskostenindex consumer price index Lebenshaltungsniveau level of living Lebensmittel foods Lebensmitteleinzelhandel food retailing Lebensmittelladen grocer's shop Lebensmittelladen grocery Lebensmittellagerung storage of food lebensnotwendige Güter essentials lebensnotwendige Güter necessities Lebensstandard economic status Lebensstandard level of living Lebensstandard living standard Lebensstandard standard of living Lebensunterhalt livelihood Lebensunterhalt subsistence Lebensversicherung life assurance Lebensversicherungsanstalt life office Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft assurance company Lebensversicherungsgesellschaft life assurance company lebenswichtig vital lebenswichtige
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I’m a sort of a lawyer, Slider, of first-rate standing, and understanding too; I’m the intimate friend and confidential adwiser of pretty nigh every man, woman, and child that gets themselves into difficulties by being too nimble with their fingers, I’m—’ Mr. Squeers’s catalogue of his own merits and accomplishments, which was partly the result of a concerted plan between himself and Ralph Nickleby, and flowed, in part, from the black bottle, was here interrupted by Mrs Sliderskew.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

On the day on which she left the boat, and the moment she put her foot on shore, there were forthwith at her disposal chairs for her own use, and carts for the luggage, sent over from the Jung mansion.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

From this point a long stretch of fine forest-land extended to Yorkville.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

There was also a placard in Chipping Ongar announcing that large stores of flour were available in the northern towns and that within twenty-four hours bread would be distributed among the starving people in the neighbourhood.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Makabahin kag daghang isdà ug magbuntag ka, You get a larger share of fish if you stay until morning.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

With a loud scraping of feet, the strikers and their leader passed out of the room.
— from The Spider's Web by Reginald Wright Kauffman

She had watched him when he had entered the field, sitting solid on his Irish horse, which was stepping high and snorting audibly; when at the "Fire" he had stood behind the firing line and at the "Cease fire" galloped in front; when he had threaded his forces round and round, north, south, and west, in and out as in a dance, so that they faced the enemy on every side; when somebody had blundered and his cavalry had been caught in a trap and he had had to ride without sword or revolver through a cloud of dark heads that had sprung up as if out of the ground; and above all, when his horse had stumbled and he had fallen, and the dervishes, forgetting that the battle was not a real one, had hurled their spears like shafts of forked lightning over his head.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

Alexandri Gagliano of Naples tells us that he too was a pupil of Stradivari, and looking at his work there is nothing about it inconsistent with his statement; his typical design is formed upon that of Stradivari, and many of his details of workmanship are such as can only have been carried out as the result of either a lengthy study, or from being under the immediate supervision of the master.
— from Antonio Stradivari by Horace Petherick

My mind was worked up to a state little short of frenzy.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

Mr. P.'s speech sounded like a literary setting of Flo's opinion: "You're a somebody here; in London you'd be one of the crowd."
— from The Call of the Town: A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The Garden lights shine on fair women and brave men.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis