After reading the letter, Villefort covered his face with his hands.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And there Sara would stand, sometimes turning her face upward to the blue which seemed so friendly and near—just like a lovely vaulted ceiling—sometimes watching the west and all the wonderful things that happened there: the clouds melting or drifting or waiting softly to be changed pink or crimson or snow-white or purple or pale dove-gray.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

" So poor Sir Harry Towers rode away from Audley Court, looking very crestfallen and dismal.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Though it was a season of the year when the voices of the birds are silent, and the trees are stripped of their summer glories in more frigid climes, yet the whole variety of roses were then blooming there, and [Pg 147] the long, luxuriant vines creeping over the frames.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Looking very charming and fresh, the young actress's general manner and movements were full of a certain majesty and grave assurance which lent an agreeable and captivating air of dignity to her otherwise pleasant expression.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

See likewise Socrates, l. vi. c. 6, and Sozomen, l. viii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This new shape rapidly became the standard form of the tool with later variations chiefly related to the adjustability of the plane-iron and sole.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

Note 26 ( return ) [ Theophylact, l. vi. c. 6, l. vii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Solenes cappe lunge venetorum com̄only a razor fish the shell thereof dentalia
— from Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Browne, Thomas, Sir

This is evidently one of the most populous districts in the whole Congo, for on all sides, both at the river edge and on the hill tops, are large villages consisting of tent-shaped huts and «shimbeks,» or square open sheds, under which the natives sit and sleep most of the day.
— from A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman

Observations on the pure pentoses—xylose and arabinose added to dextrose solutions, and then exposed to yeast action—show that in a vigorous fermentation not unduly prolonged the pentoses are unaffected, but that they do come within the influence of the yeast-cell when the latter is in a less vigorous condition, and when the hexoses are not present in relatively large proportion.
— from Researches on Cellulose, 1895-1900 by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

"I hate to interrupt, Mr. Eammer," he said doggedly, "but I got your note on the Lolita Vaughn contract we drew up.
— from Don't Shoot by Robert Zacks

,” said little Harry to his cousin, loud enough for me to hear, “I don’t think that donkey looks very clever.
— from The Story of a Donkey abridged from the French of Madame la comtesse de Ségur by Ségur, Sophie, comtesse de

Mr. Madocks then explicitly moved, that the said charge against the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, and Lord Viscount Castlereagh, should be heard at the bar on Monday next.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Why it wanders in this strange manner nobody knows, but why it stands there is known to every little village child in the surrounding country.
— from Tales and Legends of the Tyrol by Günther, Marie A., countess

Valerius, Valerio-Horatian Laws Valerius, Caesar's Lieutenant Valero Publilius Vandals Varro, Consul at Cannae Varro, Pompey's Lieutenant Varus Veii, Veientes Velítrae Veneti Venetia Venice Venusia Vercellae Vercingetorix Verginius Veróna Verres Verus, Annius Verus, Lucius Vespasian Vesta.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell