With this stripling, all whose art of love was the action of it, I could, without check of awe or restraint, give a loose to jay, and execute every scheme of dalliance my fond fancy might put me on, in which he was, in every sense, a most exquisite companion.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Raskolnikov was silent, keeping his eyes fixed on Sonia, except for an occasional rapid glance at Luzhin.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 213] opening, behind which moves a disc carrying two "flags"—"Train on line" in white letters on red ground, and "Line clear" in black letters on a white ground.
— 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

As I did so I saw stretching far below me the beautiful vista of rocky gorge, and level, cacti-studded flat, wrought by the moonlight into a miracle of soft splendor and wondrous enchantment.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Not an illuminating set of replies, given at long intervals which evidently spelled instructions from the other end of the wire.
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

A livid spot of red glowed almost like a torch-end on each high cheek-bone.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

Her ideas are touched with the sparkle of real genius and little folks find it a delight to travel in her company.
— from A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods by Jane L. Stewart

“That’s the best cattle country in this part of the west--plenty of rich grass and lots of water that’s good all of the year round.
— from Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning by Graham M. Dean

One form peculiar to England was that wool-growing had become more profitable than keeping stock or raising grain, and landed proprietors were enclosing commons for pasture land and letting much of their arable land lie fallow.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

I have alluded to the reasons for my belief that [231] it is placed by its position and by the law of its nature beyond the reach of that policy, and my firm conviction that it will secure to our people the blessings of republican government as long as it remains the predominant interest in the country.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

They show the deep-rooted hostility of this foreign power to our Republican Government and liberties—a hostility which could stop at nothing short of a dismemberment of the country.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

To our surprise they were granted instantly, but by some delay on the part of the messenger sent for them, they reached a moment too late; the boat left a little more than promptly, taking with it our relief goods, and leaving the men on the dock to receive their permits only when the boat was beyond recall.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

The only pleasant reminiscence which I have about it was the finding in flower a beautiful parasite, undescribed by Griesbach; {192} a ‘wild pine’ with a branching spike of crimson flowers, purple tipped, which shone in the darkness of the bush like a great bunch of rosebuds growing among lily-leaves.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

It is the idea that "in the western area of conflict, at least, there is an armed clash between the representatives of dynastic institutions and bureaucratic rule on the one hand with those of representative government and liberal institutions on the other."
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various