It was not that her features looked old or faded, but they had somehow lost their brilliance and looked sterner, her hair seemed shorter, she looked taller, and her shoulders were quite twice as broad, and what was most striking, there was already in her face the expression of motherliness and resignation commonly seen in respectable women of her age, and this, of course, I had never seen in her before. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Some indeed there seem to have been, in an unfortunate neighbour nation at least, who have embraced this system with a full view of all its moral and religious consequences; some— ———who deem themselves most free, When they within this gross and visible sphere Chain down the winged thought, scoffing ascent, Proud in their meanness; and themselves they cheat With noisy emptiness of learned phrase, Their subtle fluids, impacts, essences, Self-working tools, uncaus'd effects, and all Those blind omniscients, those almighty slaves, Untenanting creation of its God!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The door closed on the extempore surgeon and midwife, and Roaring Camp sat down outside, smoked its pipe, and awaited the issue.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

He used to have a ride before dinner, and his suite on those occasions were generally Davoust, myself, and Roustan.” “Constant?” said the prince, suddenly, and quite involuntarily.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Apart from the considerations dictated by morals and religion, common sense, as we suppose, has had its effect in checking the practice.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Up by 4 o’clock in the morning, and read Cicero’s Second Oration against Catiline, which pleased me exceedingly; and more I discern therein than ever I thought was to be found in him; but I perceive it was my ignorance, and that he is as good a writer as ever I read in my life.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

On one side stood two massive and richly chased silver gilt candlesticks that formerly were used in the Moorish Palace of the Alhambra.
— from Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Henry Venn Lansdown

“You mean about Robert committing suicide?” Austin inclined his head.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Two or three thicknesses of this, waxed, or drawn through the hand with a little paste, is very convenient for passing round the necks of small choked cases, tying cases on wheels, &c. To Make a Roman Candle Star.
— from The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks by Thomas Kentish

Turning them, so that their drooping leaves pointed downward, he was not long in making a really comfortable shelter, through which very little water could find its way.
— from The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War by George Cary Eggleston

“Well, my merry and reckless cousin,” she said, turning to the prince, “are there again some sins to be confessed, some neglects of discipline to be hushed up, some tears to be dried, and the mercy of the king to be implored for the extravagant freaks of our genius?
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

(but not Eus. ), and exhibits many and rare compendia scribendi .
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

I was nineteen when I began to exhort my fellow sinners residing in villages to think of God; and two years after, the Christian Church procured admission for me at Rotherham College; so that I must have been engaged, more or less, about forty years in the work of the Lord.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman