But Dora’s aunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhat masculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although my aunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora’s aunts, by expressing heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, she loved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities to the general harmony.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

His eloquence was palsied at the missionary meetings, and other religious assemblies in the neighbourhood, where he had been in the habit of presiding, and of speaking for hours; for he felt, when he rose, that the audience said, "That is the son of the old reprobate Sir Pitt, who is very likely drinking at the public house at this very moment."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

One of these personages, fantastically accoutred in many an oriental rag, was Mathias Hungadi Spicali, Duke of Egypt and Bohemia.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

That the British Labour Party make an official representation to the Soviet Government directly, urging the latter to put a stop to the persecutions of the Socialists in Russia.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

One day, when I was gradually recovering, I was seated in a chair, my eyes half open, and my cheeks livid like those in death, I was overcome by gloom and misery, and often reflected I had better seek death than remain miserably pent up only to be let loose in a world replete with wretchedness.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Angemessenheit adequacy Angemessenheit der Mittel adequacy of resources angenäherte Schätzung approximate estimate angenommener Name assumed name angenommener Wechsel bill of acceptance angeschlossen affiliated angeschlossen associated angeschlossene Firma affiliated company angeschlossene Gesellschaften associated companies angesehen of good standing angesehene Wohnlage; angesehene Firma good address angespannt tight angestaubt; angeschmutzt shop-soiled angestaubte Ware dusted quality angestellt sein to be on the payroll Angestellte; weibliche Arbeitskraft female employee
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He once came into King Rolf’s hall while the king was yet a young man, and of rather delicate growth.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

I cannot but perceive that this so-called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the fine arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump; for I remember that the greatest genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty-five feet on level ground.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

A number of learned men came with the expectation of meeting an orthodox religionist.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Incidentally he inquired about the Blue Mummy, and on receiving an explanation about the ancient Peruvians and their customs, evinced some disgust at the unsatisfactory result of Darrel's visit to the archæologist.
— from The Red-headed Man by Fergus Hume

Two hundred years passed before the Tractarian movement at Oxford reproduced its likeness and tendered it to Englishmen as the vera effigies of the Church of {281} England.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

The second stage of English criticism—a period -256- of classification and especially of metrical studies—commences with Gascoigne's Notes of Instruction concerning the making of Verse , [439] published in 1575, and modelled apparently on Ronsard's Abrégé de l'Art Poétique françois (1565).
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

, The Crucifixion, by Tintoretto, is a sombre dramatic representation of the scene envisaged in his most naturalistic manner, another of Ruskin’s favourites; he believed that neither the Miracle of St Mark nor the great Crucifixion in S. Rocco cost the artist more pains than this comparatively small work.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

There was nothing else the matter, and our ribs were sound.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

He had started out on a former "shadow" without a clue, and in his resolve to find the collateral heirs he also started out minus a single clue, but he was a man, as our readers know, to discover clues, and in a most remarkable manner he succeeded through a series of thrilling adventures in finding a legitimate heir to an immense estate.
— from A Successful Shadow; Or, A Detective's Successful Quest by Old Sleuth

All the children of our valley inhaled with every breath this mingled air of romance and sorrow, history and song, and through those epic days runs a deep-laid
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland