One of them was particularly mortified at having her marvellous story marred, and that the only spectre she had ever seen should turn out a counterfeit; but the niece seemed perfectly happy at having found him substantial flesh and blood.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The Master Masons at the temple of Solomon.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“How can you be so silly,” cried her mother, “as to think of such a thing, in all this dirt!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Home and dined there, and Theodore Goodgroome, my singing master, with me, and then to our singing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Union of Speculative and Operative Masonry at the Temple of Solomon.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Very little is to be said under this heading here, since to understand this we must know more about the technicalities of sailing.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

This cleaning was done in vats filled with water, which was maintained at the temperature of seventy degrees, and in which the wool was soaked for four-and-twenty hours; it was then thoroughly washed in baths of soda, and, when sufficiently dried by pressure, it was in a state to be compressed, that is to say, to produce a solid material, rough, no doubt, and such as would have no value in a manufacturing center of Europe or America, but which would be highly esteemed in the Lincoln Island markets.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

No science is more ancient than that of symbolism.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

On such matters as these—Whether the Jew regards himself as destined to rule the world; whether he regards himself as belonging to a nation and race distinct from every other nation and race; whether he regards the Gentile world as the legitimate field of his exploitation by a lower moral method than is permissible among his own people; whether he knows and shares the principles of the Protocols—on such matters as these, the only safe guide is to be found in the words which Jewish leaders speak to Jews, not in the words they speak to Gentiles.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

gh road for a few miles and then turned off sharply by a cart track leading across the fields.
— from With a Camera in Majorca by Margaret D'Este

It was a most shameful, brutal, and cowardly attack, and we are most anxious that the offender should be brought to justice.”
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough

Fourscore of their deputies were introduced as friends into the city; but on the dark suspicion of a conspiracy, they were massacred at the table of Sergius, and the clamor of arms and revenge was reechoed through the valleys of Mount Atlas from both the Syrtes to the Atlantic Ocean.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

But then daughters will marry; and to think of such a one, bound to a cruel husband, who quarrelled with her, deserted her—Oh, what cruel stuff men are made of!
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

I had been to call upon her father,—a sacrifice to civility undertaken entirely to please my mother, not myself, for I hated to go near the house; not merely on account of my antipathy to the once so bewitching Eliza, but because I had not half forgiven the old gentleman himself for his ill opinion of Mrs. Huntingdon; for though now constrained to acknowledge himself mistaken in his former judgment, he still maintained that she had done wrong to leave her husband; it was a violation of her sacred duties as a wife, and a tempting of Providence by laying herself open to temptation; and nothing short of bodily ill-usage (and that of no trifling nature) could excuse such a step—nor even that, for in such a case she ought to appeal to the laws for protection.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

It is true that a new division had been also raised in Granada, and sent to Catalonia under General Reding, but this was due to the energy of the Junta of that small kingdom, which was far more active than that of Seville.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

The tepees rose like magic, and their threads of smoke began to creep up into the clear sky like mysterious plants, slender and wavering.
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

1920—Alfredo M. Salazar, New York, is granted a United States patent on a coffee urn in which the coffee is made at the time of serving by using steam pressure to force the boiling water through the ground coffee held in a cloth sack attached to the faucet.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Virginia probably has more arms than the other Southern States, and would divide, in case of need.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay