Mr. Seward came and had his whist, and Adams remembered his rough parting speech: "A very sensible entertainment!"
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

These two truths appear to me simple, clear, and fertile in consequences; and they naturally lead me to consider what kind of free government can be established amongst a people in which social conditions are equal.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

— N. provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill; subvention &c. (aid) 707; resources &c. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Rosamond was more severely criticised and less pitied, though she too, as one of the good old Vincy family who had always been known in Middlemarch, was regarded as a victim to marriage with an interloper.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The natives use it for making stoves, crucibles, and so forth.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I have been seated at the third table of the Bishop of Séez and two attendants, both clad in black, were at my sides: constraint and weariness.”
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

"Then you will perhaps deliver your message, and tell me——" "That if you wish to see my mistress, she can accord you a few moments this evening."
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) by Paul de Kock

The Negoos bestrode a richly caparisoned mule, with swallow-tailed housings of crimson and green, and massive silver collars; and he was closely followed by the corps of shield-bearers under the direction of the Master of the Horse, who, by vigorous sallies, and the judicious exercise of a long stick, kept the crowd from encroaching upon the royal person, during our eight-mile ride over the level plain.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Prophecy, which makes so considerable a part of that system, must, therefore, be its 22 own interpreter.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

And while still she hesitated, pencil poised, with neither knock nor any sort of announcement whatsoever the door flew open, and through it, like a fury in a fairy's dress, flew Mrs. Standish clothed as Columbine.
— from Nobody by Louis Joseph Vance

Here grief became rejoicing, for to their complete surprise they encountered Ralleau, De Monts' secretary, coasting along in a shallop.
— from The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby

Did not Polly have all the babies to nurse and fondle that her motherly soul craved, and did not Peter have huge piles of sand in which he might dig to his heart's content?
— from Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson