A beautiful dark tone is derived from the combination of middle notes in stopped horns and deep notes in the clarinet: [ Listen ] If bassoons are substituted for clarinets the effect loses part of its character.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

My guardian won’t allow me to go home for the Christmas holidays, but now I shall have a dear, kind new mamma to make me happy.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

But these are both in extremes, the middle sort approve of minerals, though not in so high a degree.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"Do you like mushrooms?" I repeat, lifting the lid, and giving him a peep into the creamy and pink-colored treasures inside, "oh, you must ! if you do not, I shall have a divorce !
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

Before night, I shall have a dozen men in pursuit.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

But till then, only let God’s peace enter our hearts with God’s Son, and then let our hearts say if that peace must not in some high and deep way be according to the highest and the deepest reason, since its coming into our hearts has produced in our hearts and in our lives such reasonable, and right, and harmonious, and peaceful, and every way joyful results.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

He could not imagine sitting here all day with her week after week, dictating letters, hearing her typing them, getting the clear glance from her now and again (and that would be the most intolerable of all), saying ‘good-evening’ to her when the day’s work was done, and ‘good-morning’ to her when it was beginning.
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Throughout the nineteenth century, one finds conclusive evidence that the breed was very fairly represented in many parts of England, notably in Suffolk, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire, and also in Wales.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

I gave the unfortunate creature a supply of six days' food, together with a cooking-pot and some firewood, but I dared not introduce so horrible a disease as the small-pox among our party.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

We are very near neighbors; I see her almost daily; yet I am continually finding new beauties of character to love and admire.
— from The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

Here we have lending on a truly gigantic and imperial scale, ‘thousands of loans’ and ‘not a single loss’: nothing is said, however, about damage and deterioration, which must have been considerable.
— from Further remarks on the policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

Ninety-seven waggons had been counted the evening before, moving towards the Free State passes, but now I saw hardly a dozen Boers.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson