The walls, distempered rather a long time ago, were decorated with water-colour sketches; across the ceiling meandered a long crack.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Tsuwe′năhĭ , myth of 343 – 345 , 480 – 481 Tuckasegee , destruction of (1781) 69 Tugălû′nă fish , myth concerning 289 , 455 Tuggle manuscript on Creek myths 431 , 432 , 434 – 436 , 447 – 450 , 452 , 455 , 463 , 469 , 473 , 476 Tuggle manuscript on Creek songs 504 Tunâ′ĭ , legend of 373 Tupi language , trade language based on 187 Turkey , myths and lore concerning 269 – 270 , 285 , 287 – 288 , 449 , 455 Turkeytown , siege and relief of 90 Turkeytown , treaty ratified at (1816) 98 Turtle , drum of shell of 503 Turtle , myths and lore concerning 306 , 343 , 346 , 430 , 452 , 475 , 481 , 482 Turtle dove , Cherokee name for 281 Tusayan , memoir on clan localization in xli Tusayan , memoir on Flute and Snake ceremonies of xlv Tusayan , memoir on migration traditions of xxxix–xl Tusayan , study of fraternities, cults, and altars in xlvii, xlviii–xlix, l–liii Tusayan , work in xiv
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The hereditary dominions of the Emperor of Germany contain a great extent of fertile, cultivated, and populous territory, a large proportion of which is situated in mild and luxuriant climates.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The conception of a noumenon is therefore merely a limitative conception and therefore only of negative use.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

40 Jeter le manche après la cognée —To throw the helve after the hatchet.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

His side of Lowick was the most remote from the village, and the houses of the laboring people were either lone cottages or were collected in a hamlet called Frick, where a water-mill and some stone-pits made a little centre of slow, heavy-shouldered industry.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Up till May 11th, 1883, the very day of her death, there remained thus about one hour of the day during which she still had to play her part, restrain her moans, and look cheerful.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

When he was brought before the emperor, while the other prisoners sued for pity with the most abject lamentations, Carac'tacus stood before the tribunal with an intrepid air, and [Pg. 289] though he was willing to accept of pardon, was not mean enough to sue for it.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

howse,” when he “gave him some inkling what had bin the plott of undermining the Parlament howse, to blow it up; and on Wednesday told him more at large &c.,”naming “who had bin the miners.”
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

Hungry, dog-tired, cross with the crossness of a man in authority whose orders have been forgotten or disregarded, I drove Billy Jones's old canoe across Lac Tremblant on my way home to Dudley Wilbraham's gold mine at La Chance, after an absence of months.
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

The king was greatly irritated, and refused to receive the address, unless presented in the corporate capacity of "mayor, aldermen, livery," &c.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

‘If people choose to make a little chit of a schoolgirl ridiculous by dressing her out like that!’
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But it goes on steadily, in the dry Summer glare, in the drought, and dust, and silence; patiently, uncheered by showers, and with many a leaf curling, many a fruit dropping.
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon

Couldn't you tell me a little closer, instead of standing all that distance off?"
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

Are there not two hundred more at least coming to help those who are now here?
— from Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

It might as justly have been addressed to a Moreau, a Macdonald, a Le Courbe, or to any other general, as to Bonaparte, because a superior number of well disciplined troops, let them be well or even indifferently commanded, will defeat those inferior in number.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various