An unfinished red-chalk drawing stood on an easel by the open piano, a pot full of tulips made a rich spot of colour against the old green table-cloth, and a large grey Persian cat slept peacefully and luxuriously in the arm-chair.
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

Not long before my time, we reckoned Asia, Europa, and Africa, for a full and perfect diuision of the whole earth, which are parcels onelie of that huge Iland that lieth east of the Atlantike sea, and whereof the first is diuided from the second by Tanais (which riseth in the rocks of Caucasus, and hideth it selfe in the Meotine moores) and the Ocean sea; and the last from them both by the Mediterrane and red sea, otherwise called Mare Erythræum.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

“Well, sir, I should like to get my discharge and go home too; being chucked down that pit has given me a regular sickness of campaigning among these savages.
— from The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

There were three pounds at least, and the purple bloom of the fruit made a rich spot of colour in the room.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Ever and anon our superior officers retire to the mairies , and receive strict orders concerning their duty.
— from Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton

She made a rough sort of corn cake which served for bread, she prepared the endless pea-soup and pork, she washed and mended and even made the clothes.
— from Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall

The genius of the two was so different as obviously to prohibit comparison—it is in their inflexibility of purpose, their moral and religious severity of character, that the resemblance consists.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous