I found her in ‘vestito di confidenza’, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, although I recollect it perfectly well.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All were agreed that the non-importation act must be got rid of; but the difficulty was to find a way to be rid of it so that the nation should at once maintain its dignity, assert its rights, and escape a war.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

But it was actually several miles from wall to wall, and the Gap was more than as much in depth, as it ran back 65 to a mere wedge between unnamed Superstition peaks.
— from Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

As the shots are fired they are observed by the spotting officers to fall too short or too far over, to one side or to the other, and corrections are made in direction and in range so as to convert a “bracket” into a “straddle” and then to bring off accurate hits.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

And in the wind there is a tone Which whispers to her sinking heart— "Mary we meet in death alone; In realms of bliss no more to part."
— from Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Susanna Moodie

In his City of the Sun , Campanella follows Plato and More in depicting an ideal republic and a time when a new era of earthly felicity should begin.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

"Tell me in detail about it," requested the other.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

Toward evening I took a walk across a long bridge, and rested myself on a seat in a small park overlooking the river; but the people stopped their work to look at me to such an extent as to make it disagreeable, and I returned to the hotel.
— from Around the World in Seven Months by Charles J. Gillis

Casaubon is as masterly in drawing as is Rosamond or Lydgate.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid