She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses, till they shone.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

While these papers were in the hands of Percy, as undoubtedly they were at that moment, it were best to keep that gentleman as much as possible under their own eye.
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

After getting over the Lachine Rapids, they crossed Lake St. Louis and the Two Mountains, and, passing up the Ottawa, now expanding into a broad lake and again contracting into narrows, whence its pent-up waters swept over precipices and boulders in furious, foaming currents, they at length, after incredible labor, reached the island Allumette, a distance of not less than two hundred and twenty-five miles.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

Do you know, this little machine actually picks up the orders from the control room, and adjusts every machine down here !
— from Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

The actual size or kind of thread to use should depend partly on the kind of material and partly upon the other style of work or stitches that you intend combining with it.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft by Effie Archer Archer

Malchus was the last to leave, and having seen that all his followers had preceded him, he, too, crossed the stream, paused a moment at a heap of debris from the mine, and picking up three or four pieces of rock about the size of his fist, rolled them in the corner of his garment, and holding this in one hand moved up the hill.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Now, if you only had Bel and me, and paid us three or three and a half a piece, couldn't you put out—say, five dollars' worth of fine washing?
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Return these to the soup, add whatever seasoning is necessary; simmer all together for one minute, and pour upon three or four tablespoonfuls of grated cheese placed in the bottom of the tureen.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

The Diet broke up without coming to a decision; and the Estates, exasperated against the Emperor, arranged a general meeting at Prague, upon their own authority, to right themselves.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

My uncle, whose services would have got him made a prince under the other, had then retired with the mere rank of sub-lieutenant.
— from An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete by Émile Souvestre