But when the bride—handing out of the last coach a still more extraordinary figure than the rest—presented to him as her father —the gentleman that was to give her away —no less a person than Signor Delpini himself—with a sort of pride, as much as to say, See what I have brought to do us honour!—the thought of so extraordinary a paternity quite overcame him; and slipping away under some pretence from the bride and her motley adherents, poor Merry took horse from the back yard to the nearest sea-coast, from which, shipping himself to America, he shortly after consoled himself with a more congenial match in the person of Miss Brunton; relieved from his intended clown father, and a bevy of painted Buffas for bridemaids.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

He showed his appetites and designs too simply and artlessly; when one was alone with him he talked too much about the same subject, and when other people were present he talked too little about anything.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Wherefore let the people meet after the summer solstice, in the precincts of Apollo and the Sun, and appoint three men of not less than fifty years of age.
— from Laws by Plato

Don Quixote gave himself a great slap on the forehead and began to laugh heartily, and said he, "Why, I have not been wandering, either in the Sierra Morena or in the whole course of our sallies, but barely two months, and thou sayest, Sancho, that it is twenty years since I promised thee the island.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In 1652 the parish purchased the leases of the “Catherine Wheel” public house and a small plot of land adjoining, which were accordingly conveyed to the Churchwardens and Overseers, and other parishioners, for the use of the parish; and in 1664 the freehold of these premises was granted by the Lady of the Manor of Abbots, Kensington, to Christopher Batt and others in trust “for the perpetual habitation of a schoolmaster; for the education, teaching and instruction of poor boys and youths of the parish of Kensington in the same messuage;” and the said schoolmaster was to be chosen by the parishioners and inhabitants, or the majority of them.
— from The Endowed Charities of Kensington: By Whom Bequeathed, and How Administered by Edward Morton Daniel

Usually this is restricted to the large silver money, and the small silver and most of the copper are regarded as of royal coinage.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

And when votes of thanks had been accorded to the chairman, directors, and manager, and the shareholders separated, they all began dreaming of Carmel and of that miraculous rain of silver which would pour down from the Holy Places amidst a halo of glory.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

The call-note is uttered whilst flying, and ceases as soon as the bird has alighted upon a tree-top, where it remains perched erect and motionless for a few minutes, and then seeks shelter in some retired and shady spot.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Travelers arriving at Gainesville, on their way to the upper St. John, will do well to hire a private conveyance and go by Payne’s prairie and the Orange Grove to Ocala (thirty-eight miles) and the Silver Spring whence they can take the boats on the Oklawaha.
— from A Guide-Book of Florida and the South for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Wagner's theory made the music and the singing subordinate to the dramatic design, transformed them from ultimate objects into -54- means of expression; and this was to his contemporaries a revolutionary idea for which they were not prepared.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Both had been waiting some twenty minutes at the same station, and yet neither had been near enough to speak, but had been as effectually separated as though miles had divided them, instead of so many yards.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.