I need write no particulars (and I am relieved to know it) of the effect produced on Miss Halcombe by the news of Lady Glyde's departure, or by the far more melancholy tidings which reached us only too soon afterwards at Blackwater Park.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but oats,-pretty oats that, when ripe, look like a number of little golden canary-birds sitting on a bough.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
In truth he thought not of little Gerda, and never supposed she could be standing in the front of the palace.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
The lost is found.—Oh, my pretty Annie, we forgot to tell your mother of our ramble, and she is in despair and has sent the town-crier to bellow up and down the streets, affrighting old and young, for the loss of a little girl who has not once let go my hand?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
okazonta sed efektive ne okazas, "la glavo de Damoklo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
I believe not our Lord God.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian
Goldstern , Israel, a native of Lemberg, Galicia, educated in strict orthodoxy.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
Surely no other little girl ever spent such a queer morning.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
But I could not conceive the use of money to a capuchin, who is obliged, by the rules of his order, to appear like a beggar, and enjoy all other necessaries of life gratis; besides, my fellow traveller seemed to be of a complexion too careless and sanguine to give me any apprehension on that score; so that I proceeded with great confidence, in expectation of being soon at my journey's end.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett
He not only loaded Galileo with presents, [32] and promised him a pension for his son Vincenzo, but he wrote a letter to Ferdinand, who had just succeeded Cosmo as Grand Duke of Tuscany, recommending Galileo to his particular patronage.
— from The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by David Brewster
Each of those bands will follow its own path and work its own miracles—whether greater than that which the people of the United States has wrought or not, only later generations will know.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
The thought that perhaps Richelieu might have obtained, through his many-eyed communications, some news of Lucette gave Edward fresh spirit; but still he followed the secretary's advice, for, after having ridden so hard for many days, some more repose was absolutely needful.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Nitrate of lead gives a white precipitate, and the salts of copper greenish-blue ones.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
[the family name of Lord G——].
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
Little Louise, who was then nine years old, had one of those pretty faces, gay and sad by turns, which painters delight to copy when they wish to represent a young maiden of Switzerland or of the neighborhood of Lake Geneva.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock
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