With these it is a hollow phantasmagory, where like mimes they mope and mowl, and utter false sounds for hire; but with thee it is frightful earnest.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

We had clasped each other's hands; some delightful force rendered us motionless, an unknown force stronger than ourselves, an alliance, chaste, intimate, absolute, of our beings lying there side by side, belonging to each other without contact.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“You may reckon upon me and upon fifty soldiers which the Chevalier d’Humieres has promised me whenever I need them.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

2 s.t. plaited together in a string or garland to make a unit for sale.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Whatever may happen, many among us feel sorry for Erkel.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am not aware that I have made any unsuitable friendships," said Margaret, with a rather proud look in her hazel eyes.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

9. de spect. reports confidently, that he conferred with sundry such, that had been so carried many miles, and that he heard witches themselves confess as much; hurt and infect men and beasts, vines, corn, cattle, plants, make women abortive, not to conceive, [1263] barren, men and women unapt and unable, married and unmarried, fifty several ways, saith Bodine, lib. 2. c. 2. fly in the air, meet when and where they will, as Cicogna proves, and Lavat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They also were-acquainted-with gunpowder, which they made and used for such fires as we use on national days of-celebration, when we have leisure and wish to enjoy (to amuse) ourselves.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The roots that are too small for marketing are used for seed, and these are bedded close together in the hotbed and covered with about 2 inches of sand or fine soil, such as leaf mold.
— from The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous

While Buel's Army, the Army of the Cumberland, was concentrating in and about Louisville, preparing for the forward movement, Gov. Morton, of Indiana, was frequently in Louisville, consulting with Gen. Buel, and offering suggestions as to army movements etc., and these, after a time, came to be regarded by Gen. Buel as meddlesome, and uncalled for, so much so, that he finally intimated to Gov. Morton that it would be as well for him to attend to his duties as Governor of Indiana, while he would attend to his as Commanding General of the forces in the field.
— from Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River by Milo S. Hascall

This deprivation of his original name he had ever regarded as an indignity, and having now gained his freedom he resumed his original name; and as there was no one by whom he could be addressed by it, he exultingly enjoyed the first-fruits of his freedom by calling himself aloud by his old name "William!" After passing through a variety of painful vicissitudes, on the eighth day he found himself destitute of pecuniary means, and unable, from severe illness, to pursue his journey.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown

The medium employed was Noguchi’s ascitic fluid and rabbit kidney medium, as used for spirochætes.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

When canned meats are used for salads, the can should be opened at least half hour before using, meat placed in a porcelain, glass or china bowl and thoroughly aerated.
— from Florida Salads by Frances Barber Harris

Meteorites are usually first seen at an altitude of fifty or sixty miles.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis

They gazed round excitedly as the light broadened, but there was no cutter where they expected she would be, but ten minutes later, dimly seen as yet, they made her out miles away under full sail, in chase of a long, low, three-masted lugger, at which she was keeping up a slow and steady fire.
— from Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn

In the first instance the Punjabis regarded the mutinies as utter follies sure to bring down retribution, and they were glad to be among his instruments in dealing out punishment to the mutineers, and so “feeding fat their grudge” against them.
— from Lord Lawrence by Temple, Richard Carnac, Sir