—Never had I a better piece of luck befall me: a long and blessed evening with Emerson, in a way I couldn't have wish'd better or different.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The assemblage of such a number of notable men makes a large and brilliant English society.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

With a prudent after-thought, too, the gate-keeper's wife wrote Ellen's name and her own address upon a card which she fastened to the faithful little basket, in case of any accident; and then, with many anxious looks and blessings, Ellen again started on her journey.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He recognized that various sets of pieces were "a mousetrap," "a lock," "a bell," etc., but made a zero score from the point of view of construction.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

The mast was raised, hoisting a yard consisting of two pieces, from which hung a large dark object bearing a certain resemblance to a dolphin, for it was distaff-shaped, thickest in the middle and lessening at both ends.
— from Pictures of Hellas: Five Tales of Ancient Greece by Peder Mariager

So as to speech and music: as long as both exist only in embryo in the confused cries and rude imitations of the child or of the primitive people, they cannot be distinguished; but as soon as they can be called either speech or music, they become unlike and increase in dissimilarity in proportion as they develop.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

A system of that kind does not strike me at least as being exactly the thing for a country of which we are assured that before everything else its prime want is a profound respite from political turmoil.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey

The stars seemed large and brilliant enough for planets, the moon almost large and bright enough for the sun.
— from Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas

To king Eumenes they gave, in Europe, the Chersonese and Lysimachia, with the forts, towns, and lands thereof, with the same frontier as Antiochus had held them; and, in Asia, both the Phrygias, the one on the Hellespont, and the other called the Greater, and restored to him Mysia, which had been taken by king Prusias, and also gave to him Lycaonia, and Milyas, and Lydia, and, by express mention, the cities of Tralles, and Ephesus, and Telmessus.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

They liked Doggie because he was good-natured and plucky, and never complained and would play the whistle on march as long as breath enough remained in his body.
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke