At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer, And plenty of bacon each day in the year; We've a' thing that's nice, and mostly in season, But why always Bacon—come, tell me a reason?
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

“And you think him capable of being exact?” demanded Debray.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the antiquity, beauty, and energy of its own tongue, with an avowed contempt for that of its neighbor; yet our emperor, standing upon the advantage he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their credentials, and make their speech in the Lilliputian tongue.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

The legs, which are not crossed, are covered by long chausses , or stockings of mail, Page 53 {53} protected at the knees by poleyns or genouillères of cuir bouilli richly ornamented by elaborate designs.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But this opinion Bodine, Erastus, Danaeus, Scribanius, Sebastian Michaelis, Campanella de Sensu rerum, lib. 4. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They never, in thought, exchanged places with them; and, consequently, had no consideration for their feelings, regarding them as an order of beings entirely different from themselves.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The bowling season was of course over, but even during the season he had scarcely played.
— from Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett

Dressed in the extreme of youthful fashion, her thinning hair dyed and crimped and fired till it is more like red-brown tow than hair, her flaccid cheeks ruddled, her throat whitened, her bust displayed with unflinching generosity, as if beauty was to be measured by cubic inches, her lustreless eyes blackened round the lids, to give the semblance of limpidity to the tarnished whites—perhaps the pupil dilated by belladonna, or perhaps a false and fatal brilliancy for the moment given by opium, or by eau de cologne, of which she has a store in her carriage, and drinks as she passes from ball to ball; no kindly drapery of lace or gauze to conceal the breadth of her robust maturity, or to soften the dreadful shadows of her leanness—there she stands, the wretched creature who will not consent to grow old, and who will still affect to be like a fresh coquettish girl when she is nothing but la femme passée, la femme passée et ridicule into the bargain.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Aubenas, J. A. Histoire de l'Impératrice Joséphine. Paris, 1857-58. 2 v. 8 o . Beauharnais, Eugène de .
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Indeed, we were in the midst of an Indian summer; it seemed that the uncanny visitants had brought, together with an atmosphere of black Eastern deviltry, something, too, of the Eastern climate.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

That the hills are the heaps of slain covered over by earth dug up from the valleys, and that when the two brothers look down upon them their weeping and wailing and maddening exasperation occasion the storm and the hurricane.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner

On the outside, before each door-post, there stood formerly a semi-column, having a base and capital with fantastical sculptures in the Persepolitan style.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

The Embroiderer’s Book of Design , containing Initials, Emblems, Cyphers, Monograms, Ornamental Borders, Ecclesiastical Devices, Mediæval and Modern Alphabets and National Emblems.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

Others of her books were enjoyed, praised, laughed over, but this one was taken by tired hands into secret places, pored over by eyes dim with tears, and its lessons prayed out at many a Jabbok.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Cheriton himself appeared in the grey and green to which he had once been enthusiastically devoted, and which was now worn for the last time before he began his preparation for the autumn ordination.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Fashioned, moulded, formed taught carriage and deportment, and several other extras at Miss Holmes’s highly fashionable, strictly select academy for young ladies in Huddersfield, and thither and thence I ride on Beauty every day of the blessed week bar Sundays and missin’s—but that’s an improper word and not to be spoken in genteel society.”
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes