He liked old cider, underdone legs of mutton, glorias* well beaten up.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Abashed as he was, he could not bear to meet the only look which he expected to find there, the old cold unpitying look of condemnation and reproach.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The Zebra was a second-rate frigate, which for some years had been out of regular commission, doing duty on coast-guard service, or cruising under letters of marque.
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

He liked old cider, underdone legs of mutton, glorias
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

For example, Georg Schneider, Handbuch der Bibliographie (4th ed.; Leipzig, 1930) names only currently useful lists of books and no bibliographies of subjects.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

The smoke cleared away, and the schooner’s foretopsail, which she was in the act of clewing up, lay over side.
— from The Pirate by Frederick Marryat

A steep and slippery descent, not accomplished without some half-dozen tumbles, landed us in the bed of a ravine which crossed that we had been hunting at right-angles, and with its brawling torrent debouched on the open cultivated undulations lying over the Dal lake.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

These are taken out of their frames or out of their panels, copies are made and put where the originals had been for years, and when the latter are passed on to New York or Chicago, unsuspecting lovers of Art stand beneath copies in admiration of the power of the Masters!
— from The Lighter Side of English Life by Frank Frankfort Moore