The kitchen of the Zemstvo hut, the heap of hay in the corner, the rustle of the beetles, the revolting poverty-stricken surroundings, the voices of the witnesses, the wind, the snow storm, the danger of being lost; and then all at once this splendid, brightly lighted room, the sounds of the piano, the lovely girls, the curly-headed children, the gay, happy laughter—such a transformation seemed to him like a fairy tale, and it seemed incredible that such transitions were possible at the distance of some two miles in the course of one hour.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Be it observed, however, that I include in the meaning of a word not only its correspondent object, but likewise all the associations which it recalls.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The mass of men, even of the more intelligent men, not only knew little about each other but less about the action of men in groups and the technique of industry in general.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

At an early age he became professor of belles lettres at Treviso, and published various poems, including a political satire, which led to his exile.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In the case of a boy the skin parted from the wound is received in a cleft stick ( sepit ), and after being dried is made up into a sort of ring, and used as a charm to secure invulnerability ( pelias ) in war, or else carried out on a piece of banana leaf and thrown away with ashes from the hearth ( abu dapor ), which latter are used to stanch the blood.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

And the Vasu, when he beheld her, was overpowered by love, and the Apsaras too had her eyes immediately attracted by his form.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

The description of Thrace would be easy if the pens of ancient authors agreed on the subject; but as the obscurity and variety of their accounts is of but little assistance to a work which professes to tell the truth, it will be sufficient for us to record what we remember to have seen ourselves.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

Major Simon Ruck, a retired army officer with a fine fortune, and who is fifty years of age, and----" Here there came a flash of blue lightning, and then a loud crash of thunder.
— from The Black Patch by Fergus Hume

[67] Overcome by love and to avoid noise and contention, I yielded to all his usurpations, and finding it in vain to resist, I thought it my best policy to make my court to my new servants, and draw them to my interests; I fed them from my own table with the best I had, put my new tenants on the choice parts of my land, and treated them all so kindly, that they began to love me as well as their master.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Jonathan Swift

In many cases, where a large quantity of water is used on the machine, special methods have to be adopted for the recovery of all the fibre and clay, which would otherwise be lost, and there are many ingenious systems in use whereby this saving is effected.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

She laughed her own bright laugh at this, and only said, “God keep you, love!”
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

That villainous fop on the old beech limb And the arrogant wife that sits by him Have broken the heart of my little bluebell, The little gazelle, the bird gazelle he loved so well, And they laugh in their cynical glee.
— from The Blood of Rachel, a Dramatization of Esther, and Other Poems by Cotton Noe

The associates of this devotion thus form a band of faithful disciples, who in spirit accompany our Saviour every Thursday night to the scene of His agony, and share more particularly that watch which Our Blessed Lady and the Apostles kept on the eve of the Passion.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare