“My reputation is getting a little damaged, and I meant to clear it up brilliantly with an exposure of this bill at the supreme moment, and ride back into Congress on the eclat of it; and if I had that bit of manuscript, I would do it yet.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Mr Rivers imperceptibly grew a little loftier and statelier as she spoke.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Barite occurs in Precambrian metamorphic rocks in Gillespie and Llano counties, in Pennsylvanian shale in Brewster County, in Permian shales in Baylor and Taylor counties, and in Permian limestones in Culberson County.
— from Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide by Roselle M. Girard

And his daughter, pointing to her bush, said, "Father, my rose is grown at last," and he saw that the bush was crowned with a glorious golden bloom, perfect in every detail.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

You know, dear, Cousin Effie May really is getting a little stout.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Young people are making recitations in Greek and Latin where it was once a crime to teach their parents to read.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Monte Rosa itself gives a less imposing view than the Görner Grat.
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke

I abandon the filthy hostelry of this body of mine, built with flesh, reddened with blood, covered with a hideous skin, full of uncleanliness; and, for my recompense, I go at last to slumber in the deepest deeps of the Absolute—in Annihilation."
— from The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert

David administered to the man a stinging rebuke for his wickedness, when Mr. Rose in great anger left the house.
— from Life of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic Martyr by Lycurgus A. (Lycurgus Arnold) Wilson