They all appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odor of lime-cream.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

"The shoes were made of various kinds of leather, the quality of which depended on the way in which they were tanned, and were either of common leather, or of leather which was similar to that we know as morocco, and was called cordouan or cordua (hence the derivation of the word cordouannier , which has now become cordonnier ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

To this inquiry, Chou Jui's wife explained: "Our old lady has sent for her, and I expect, it must be for her to cut some piece of cloth or other."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

It teaches us to apply the unerring principles of moral science to every action of our lives, to see that all the motives and results of our conduct shall coincide with the dictates of divine justice, and that all our thoughts, words, and deeds shall harmoniously conspire, like the well-adjusted and rightly-squared joints of an edifice, to produce a smooth, unbroken life of virtue.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Towards their conclusion, the suitor evinced a very irreverent degree of inattention, and Mrs. Nickleby had scarcely finished speaking, when, to the great terror both of that lady and her daughter, he suddenly flung off his coat, and springing on the top of the wall, threw himself into an attitude which displayed his small-clothes and grey worsteds to the fullest advantage, and concluded by standing on one leg, and repeating his favourite bellow with increased vehemence.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

It is a book that can be held in the hand and read aloud with pleasure as a literary treat by an expert in style, master of charming words that come and go easily, and of other literatures that serve for illustrations.”— The Critic.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Groholsky who was spoilt by women, and who had been in love and out of love hundreds of times in his life, saw her as a beauty.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The raft buried itself under the surface, leaving dry only our little stage, and the whole fabric shook and trembled as if it were about to break up.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Foremost importance of proper houses or apartments, owned or leased for long terms by the United States for each of its representatives abroad; evil results of the present system; certainty of good results from the reform advocated.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

There had always been a substantial union between them, founded upon contiguous geographical position and their common interests, as well as their community of origin, languages, laws and religion, which the common danger of the Revolution had served to strengthen and cement.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

But old age shall no more fall upon us; decay shall no more rob us of our life and strength; and death shall be voluntary.
— from The inner house by Walter Besant

I remember with what earnestness of purpose I wrote on the first page of the notebook, "Rutiaro: Observations on Life and Character in the Low Archipelago."
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

She had been fearfully wronged, and to her stricken heart came a brilliant offer of love, home, and social position.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Zapp retorted, "because, from the way he says nothing about giving us an order oder looking over our sample line, Birsky, I got my doubts.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

And if we are wise, if we are His servants in any real deep sense, we shall not kick against the appointments of His supreme, autocratic, and yet most loving Providence, but be content to leave the arbitrament of life and death, of love united or of love parted, in His hands, and say, ‘Whether we live we are the Lord's, or whether we die we are the Lord's; living or dying we are His.’
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

But the easiest of all ways to make a fire without matches is by means of a magnifying glass or other lens.
— from Woodcraft by Elmer Harry Kreps