The old lady made no reply to this; but wiping her eyes first, and her spectacles, which lay on the counterpane, afterwards, as if they were part and parcel of those features, brought some cool stuff for Oliver to drink; and then, patting him on the cheek, told him he must lie very quiet, or he would be ill again.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

His little fortune had been diminished by the necessary expences of his education; but M. La Valancourt, the elder, seemed to think that his genius and accomplishments would amply supply the deficiency of his inheritance.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

SYN: Collection, disposition, distribution, class, quantity, selection, stock, miscellany, lot, variety.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He reflected: “She must look very old, older than I look.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It might easily be foreseen that the enemy would intercept the aqueducts; and the cessation of the water-mills was the first inconvenience, which was speedily removed by mooring large vessels, and fixing mill-stones in the current of the river.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Neither should they be trained to imitate the action or speech of men or women who are mad or bad; for madness, like vice, is to be known but not to be practised or imitated.
— from The Republic by Plato

Is that true?” “Quite true, my lady.” “Very well.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Miss looked very handsome, but I prefer her little smiling flirting sister Julia.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

I thought the best answer that could be given to this reproach would be from Madam le Vasseur herself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For we know from the Holy Bible that a thousand years ago St. Paul made long voyages in ships, and doubtless they have learned much since those days.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Too often they go to Canton or Shanghai in a frame of mind that would exasperate a much less vain people than the Chinese.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

my lord,” ventured the doctor; “is it not recorded every day before our eyes, in the fairest characters,” bowing and smiling to Lady Theodosia, “that the ladies are angels!
— from First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Margracia) Loudon

There was then a perceptible lull for a couple of hours, when the attack was renewed, but with much less vehemence, and continued up to dark.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

These canoes carry a hundred men or more, and make long voyages, often to Fiji, on the east, and lo!
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

These were, however, it must be owned, spirits of a coarser sort, more laborious vocation, and more malignant temper, and in all respects less propitious to humanity, than the fairies (properly so called), which were the invention of the Celtic people, and displayed that superiority of taste and fancy which, with the love of music and poetry, has been generally ascribed to their race, through its various classes and modifications.
— from Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott

The marriage laws vary among different tribes.
— from The Indian Captive A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western America by Matthew Brayton