He only begged just enough to save himself, for the laws against mendicancy were stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of his time listening to good Father Andrew’s charming old tales and legends about giants and fairies, dwarfs and genii, and enchanted castles, and gorgeous kings and princes.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Not a large one, but just enough to keep him a month.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Secretaries,—S. N. Stockwell of Boston, J. E. Tucker of Worcester, N. A. Horton of Salem, Z. E. Stowe of Lowell, George S. Merrill of Lawrence, Joseph B. Thaxter of Hingham, Samuel B. Noyes of Canton, William S. Robinson of Malden, Charles A. Chase of Boston, L. H. Bradford of Fitchburg, William Martin of North Adams, Gardner M. Fiske of Palmer, William W. Clapp, Jr., of Boston.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Specks of bright jelly enliven this dish if disposed tastefully upon the cream.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

On learning that Fleur-de-Marie was pardoned, the other prisoners, instead of being jealous, expressed their joy; some of them surrounded her, and bade her farewell in a cordial manner, congratulating her frankly on her quick deliverance from prison.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

"A third or more of all the amusements of boys just entering their teens are games of contest—games in which the end is in one way or another to gain an advantage one's fellows, in which the interest is n the struggle between peers."
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

Someone else, then, had come on the body and turned the pockets inside out before John Evan took the ring.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

On motion of Rev. J. C. Granbery, the following was adopted: "Whereas, since the last annual meeting of the Board the venerated Bishop John Early, for many years the president of the Board, has been taken from us by death: therefore, " Resolved , That in the death of Bishop John Early the College has lost one of its most zealous, faithful and useful friends, and the Board of Trustees one of its most honored and efficient members."
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

And on beholding the strangers some of them ran back, even as Rebekah on beholding the servant of Isaac, and told their mothers; and some of them, even as Rachel on beholding Jacob, emptied their pitchers into the troughs and bade us water our horses.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

No one, indeed, for whom poetry has any meaning whatever, can turn from the work of Peele, Heywood, and Shirley, of Ben Jonson even, to the early works of Milton, to such comparatively immature works as Arcades and Comus , without being conscious that they belong to an altogether different level of poetical production.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

And I would not speak to him for the rest of the evening, or if I did, I spoke with a Scotch accent—just a suspeecion of an accent, you know—nothing to get hold of, but just enough to let him know that his Auchen-something would not go down with me.”
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman