The carver, still in the same secrecy that marked all his operations upon this mysterious image, proceeded to paint the habiliments in their proper colors, and the countenance with Nature's red and white.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pyrrhus, accordingly, began to await what the lady should do, and Nicostratus having, a few days after, made, as he oftentimes used to do, a great dinner to certain gentlemen, Madam Lydia, whenas the tables were cleared away, came forth of her chamber, clad in green samite and richly bedecked, and entered the saloon where the guests were.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

For in the night many accidents have occurred unexpectedly to those who were sufficiently prepared for battle as well as to those who were deficiently prepared, which have caused the superior party to fail in their plans, and have handed the victory over to the inferior party, contrary to the expectations of both sides.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

[27] of a visit to the city of Mexico, and his observations upon the country and its history.
— from Mexican Copper Tools: The Use of Copper by the Mexicans Before the Conquest; and the Katunes of Maya History, a Chapter in the Early History of Central America, With Special Reference to the Pio Perez Manuscript. by Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef) Valentini

Rachel could no longer work as she had done; her right arm had been so severely injured as to be nearly useless, but Sarah supplied her place so actively, so happily, that Rachel felt she had no right to murmur at her own uselessness: the poor motherless girl she had taken to her heart and home returned tenfold all that had been bestowed.
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

he said musingly, as he opened up the official blue paper.
— from The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete by Gilbert Parker

We are whirled around quick curves, and all but lose our feet; and some of us—even men—get dizzy looking at the drop below us; and then we cut through the mountain and hurry on up the steep climb until the plucky little engine decides to stop, and we are told that we have reached the summit; and we hurry from the cars and feel the sweet coolness of the mountains, and the actual presence of the Great Mother.
— from Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main by Ida May Hill Starr

Each mother and her offspring, usually twins, sometimes one and rarely three, comprise a family group, and tend to keep to themselves.
— from Mammals of Mount Rainier National Park by Russell K. Grater

He at first appeared inconsolable for her death; but his grief insensibly decreased, and softened into that mournful and tender regard, which a sense of her merit, and his own unkindness to her, could not fail of exacting from him.
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady

The Hanlons were North of Ireland men, and Hughey often used to proudly tell us that the O'Hanlons were the Ulster standard-bearers.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

Modern is his interest in the ancient philosophers, of whom Pythagoras, Plato, and the Neoplatonists especially attract him; modern, again, his interest in natural science[1] (he teaches not only the boundlessness of the world, but also the motion of the earth); his high estimation of mathematics, although he often utilizes this merely in a fanciful symbolism of numbers; his optimism (the world an image of the divine, everything perfect of its kind, the bad simply a halt on the way to the good); his intellectualism (knowing the primal function and chief mission of the spirit; faith an undeveloped knowledge; volition and emotion, as is self-evident, incidental results of thought; knowledge a leading back of the creature to God as its source, hence the counterpart of creation); modern, finally, the form and application given to the Stoic-Neoplatonic concept of individuality, and the idealistic view which resolves the objects of thought into products thereof.[2]
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

It preys upon the peace of mind and happiness of untold thousands of men and women.
— from What Jesus Taught by Osborne J. P. Widtsoe