Leaflets in 3 pairs, ovate, lanceolate, entire, glabrous and membranaceous.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

This physical standard of accuracy in his work it is the business of the student to acquire in his academic training; and every aid that science can give by such studies as Perspective, Anatomy, and, in the case of Landscape, even Geology and Botany, should be used to increase the accuracy of 37 his representations.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Dese las’ skifts wuz full o’ ladies en genlmen a-goin’ over for to see de place.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

For when he laboured the most and toiled the most, then the needs of life, ever growing more and more, would waste him, and day after day ever dawned more wretched, nor was there any respite to his toil.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

al anochecer, almost at nightfall y abajo en la portería and she is probably in the estará: yo os la enviaré, gatehouse; I will send her to you que estoy de vela esta noche. since I’m on watch tonight.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

At last, upon the other side of Loch Errocht, going over a smooth, rushy place, where the walking was easy, he could bear it no longer, and came close to me.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

[318] will sometimes draw a stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale, given by Balfour of Burley.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the ball two expensive Empire gowns stood out conspicuously from among the more or less elegant gowns which had been finished in the shop of Abramka Stiftik, Ladies’ Tailor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I had more than usual diffidence against me, more than usual reserve; and self-consciousness, from which I have only lately escaped, grew upon me hand in hand with experience.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett

Let other lands, exulting, glean The apple from the pine, The orange from its glossy green, The cluster from the vine; We better love the hardy gift Our rugged vales bestow, To cheer us when the storm shall drift Our harvest-fields with snow.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

"I was at Eton, and hadn't the advantage that you had of learning English grammar.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

On this he said, “The Kaid bids me to tell you not to go to-day as he could never think of letting Europeans go without an audience, but most unfortunately his wound
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham