I felt so much disturbed, that I would instantly have changed the subject; but he would not allow me, and, very unexpectedly, he began his panegyric; extolling in strong terms, his manly and honourable behaviour in regard to the Marybone adventure.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Be that as it may, I saw the body of poor Clinker consigned to the gaoler of Clerkenwell, to whose indulgence I recommended him so effectually, that he received him in the most hospitable manner, though there was a necessity for equipping him with a suit of irons, in which he made a very rueful appearance.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Nor is this custom confined to Mewar: there is a deified Putra in every Rajput family—one who has met a violent death.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

General Hurlbut remained at Memphis in command of the Sixteenth Corps, and General McPherson at Vicksburg with the Seventeenth.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Mi montros al vi kie ŝi estas."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The next day Mr. Farebrother, parting from Lydgate in the street, supposed that they should meet at Vincy's in the evening.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Within all the morning, and at noon with my wife, by appointment to dinner at the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten, and his lady and daughter Matt, and Captain Cocke and his lady, a German lady, but a very great beauty, and we dined together, at the spending of some wagers won and lost between him and I; and there we had the best musique and very good songs, and were very merry and danced, but I was most of all taken with Madam Cocke and her little boy, which in mirth his father had given to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A childless woman makes a vow to offer up the figure of a baby, if she brings forth offspring.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

401, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4; portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; rascal, will make a very pretty, iv.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell

The ruins of the tower can be seen on top of the bluff, almost overgrown with moss and vines.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook

At the February meeting of the Executive Committee, in Kansas City, Mr. Kohman was present and made a verbal report on the work so far accomplished by him, and was instructed to prepare a paper on the subject for publication in the trade press, which paper is given herewith.
— from Book of American Baking A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc. by Various

17) that he is like a potter who maketh a vessel unto dishonour (Rom.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

L. Le grand Martinet a Ventre Blanc.
— from Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin

I don’t know much about verse, but to me there is an air of artificiality about all hers.
— from Home Again by George MacDonald

And there is a certain velocity at which the quantity of atmospherical air which comes in contact with the vapour will be neither too great nor too small; for too much air will diminish the temperature of the stream of combustible matter so much as very considerably to impede the desired effect, and too little will render the combustion languid.
— from A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy. by Friedrich Christian Accum

Sitting in their palace at Memphis and viewing this western plateau, they could but meditate upon the time when their sun of life should sink and they be called to the abode of the Gods.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

When he was thirty he contributed that masterpiece of ironic humor 'Boule de suif,' to the 'Soirées de Médan,' a volume of short-stories put forth by the late Émile Zola, with the collaboration of a little group of his friends and followers.
— from Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

Sometimes in the distance, like a scarlet fear, a train would shoot across the murk and vanish.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson