One brand of lamp
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

But people only burst out laughing in his face.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Leisurely, our four horses are taken out; leisurely, the coach stands in the little street, bereft of horses, and with no likelihood upon it of ever moving again; leisurely, the new horses come into visible existence, one by one; leisurely, the new postilions follow, sucking and plaiting the lashes of their whips; leisurely, the old postilions count their money, make wrong additions, and arrive at dissatisfied results.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This, however, he would not by any means consent to, so he remained all the evening with his helmet on, the drollest and oddest figure that can be imagined; and while they were removing his armour, taking the baggages who were about it for ladies of high degree belonging to the castle, he said to them with great sprightliness: "Oh, never, surely, was there knight So served by hand of dame, As served was he, Don Quixote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack— or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse's name, and Don Quixote of La Mancha is my own; for though I had no intention of declaring myself until my achievements in your service and honour had made me known, the necessity of adapting that old ballad of Lancelot to the present occasion has given you the knowledge of my name altogether prematurely.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Looking back, the huge house was one blaze of light.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

V. give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern|, excrete; embogue[obs3]; secrete, secern[obs3]; extravasate[Med], shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude[obs3]; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt[obs3], spurt, spill, slop; perspire &c. (exude) 295; breathe, blow &c. (wind) 349. tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I never saw grief or tears on those occasions, but only love, which reached the point of ecstasy, but a calm ecstasy, made perfect and contemplative.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We too observe that there are some kinds xci of excellence which spring from a peculiar delicacy of constitution; as is evidently true of the poetical and imaginative temperament, which often seems to depend on impressions, and hence can only breathe or live in a certain atmosphere.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

According to one beautiful Oriental Legend, Azrael accomplishes his mission by holding to the nostril an Apple from the Tree of Life.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

The severity of discipline established on board Our Lady of Seven Sorrows was well known at Malta.
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

Chop off a branch of birch or larch.
— from The Alberta Public School Speller Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta by Anonymous

The petroglyph is found on two large stones lying side by side and leaning against other blocks of leptinite, though resembling sandstone.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

The first person he sees at our door is Jaquemart, in the costume of the most atrocious of bandits; our ladies had not dared to bid him go away, but his appearance made them tremble.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various

The king of Ulster was forbidden to attend the horse fair at Rath Line among the youths of Dal Araidhe, to listen to the fluttering of the flocks of birds of Linn Saileach after sunset, to celebrate the feast of the bull of Daire-mic-Daire, to go into Magh Cobha in the month of March, and to drink of the water of Bo Neimhidh between two darknesses.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Run another basting below crease and in the stand of collar, and another row of basting on leaf of collar close to the crease.
— from The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Business by Vanness Copeland

The body of the dear little creature is then constructed by means of two performers, who stand one behind the other, each with his body bent down, so as to make the backs of both one long surface, the one in front holding the trunk, while the one behind holds the tusks one in each hand.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

Each man had his own bit of land which he held directly from the Government.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

Chicot was disappointed, and pressed her to eat more, but she refused, and she would drink next to nothing either, and declined any coffee, so he asked her: "But surely, you will take a little drop of brandy or liqueur?"
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Of beginnings of life physical science knows nothing....
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong