They are both in the employment of Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Company, Orange Master’s Yard, Soho.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

In one of his letters to Lucilius, after he has given him to understand that, being seized with an ague in Rome, he presently took coach to go to a house he had in the country, contrary to his wife’s opinion, who would have him stay, and that he had told her that the ague he was seized with was not a fever of the body but of the place, it follows thus: “She let me go,” says he, “giving me a strict charge of my health.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

On my appearance she called out my name and said, ‘This is a servant from our house.’
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

“Well,” the latter continued, making a curtsey, “if it weren’t asking too much,” and she curtsied once more, “if you would”—and her eyes begged—“a jar of brandy,” she said at last, “and I’d rub your little one’s feet with it; they’re as tender as one’s tongue.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In the spring, the forces of the East and of the West encountered each other in the plains of Margus, a small city of Maesia, in the neighborhood of the Danube.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In the spring, the forces of the East and of the West encountered each other in the plains of Margus, a small city of Mæsia, in the neighborhood of the Danube.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I ofttimes have said, Of a poor troubled mind That's always in dread; No sun, moon, and stars Can on me now shine, No change in my danger From daylight till dawn.
— from Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

It seems to me a singular choice of materials.
— from Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds by Russell, John Russell, Earl

“Well, just as you like,” Ned said, “I am game to walk back the way we came or to try and make a straight cut, only mind don't you turn round and blame me afterward.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

French Ice Cream 2 cups milk 2 cups cream 1 cup sugar 4 to 6 egg yolks 1 tablespoon vanilla ¼ teaspoon salt Make a soft custard of milk, sugar and yolks of eggs.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

Much of medicine and surgery consists of means to overcome nature.
— from Love—Marriage—Birth Control Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921 by Dawson, Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount

The hillsides of Chaillot and of Passy were equally filled; as further on were the amphitheatres of Meudon and St. Cloud, of Mont Valérien and Montmartre.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Edith Harnham’s large dark eyes expressed some interest in the contents, though, in her character of mere interpreter, she threw into her tone as much as she could of mechanical passiveness.
— from Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy

Our destroyers of the escort are now moving along straight courses once more."
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"If we have to lose to-day's game," muttered Mr. Morton, "I'll be almost satisfied to lose it to Tottenville, after the manly and straightout conduct of Mr. Jarvis!"
— from The High School Captain of the Team; or, Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock