Since that time six months have passed, and there has fallen upon the country a "white" winter—a winter of clear, keen, motionless frosts, of deep, crackling snow, of pink-rimed trees, of pale-emerald heavens, of smoke-capped chimneys, of puffs of vapour from momentarily opened doors, of faces fresh and hard-bitten, of horses galloping headlong to thaw their frozen limbs.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

When we examine the structure of a watch, when we come to know thoroughly the use of every part of it, satisfied as we are with the fitness of the whole, we are far enough from perceiving anything like beauty in the watch-work itself; but let us look on the case, Page 210 the labor of some curious artist in engraving, with little or no idea of use, we shall have a much livelier idea of beauty than we ever could have had from the watch itself, though the masterpiece of Graham.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

fracoð-licnes , -nes (Æ) f. vileness, coarseness, obscenity . fracoðscipe (-od) scandalous conduct , RB 141 6 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Her dull eyes expressed complete vacancy of mind, and, looking at her, one would have thought that the rocking of her body was not a voluntary action of her own, but was produced by the action of some concealed galvanic mechanism.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then said Mr. Mnason, their landlord, "My neighbors, I have, as you see, a company of strangers come to my house: they are pilgrims; they come from afar, and are going to Mount Zion.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

We had a deal of sweet conversation as we walked; and, after we had taken a turn round, I bent towards the little garden; and when I came near the summer-house, took the opportunity to slip from him, and just whipt up the steps of this once frightful place, and kneeled down, and said, I bless thee, O God!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

She turned white in the face, and drew her breath through her teeth in a savage sort of way;—but she offered no extenuation or defence; and with a kind of shameless calmness—shocking indeed to witness in one so young—as good as told me that my remonstrance was unavailing, and my pastoral advice quite thrown away upon her—nay, that my very presence was displeasing while I spoke such things.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

She moved her chair until it rested full in a slant ray of sunlight, coming through the lowered blinds, then sat within the ray, as still almost as if she had been sculptured there.
— from Hagar by Mary Johnston

We were right away in the open sea now, going south before a brisk north-west breeze, which was just enough to make the water dance and glitter in the sunshine, as the Burgh Castle with a full press of sail careened gently over.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

The children born of old fathers and young mothers, it should, however, be added, are generally of strong constitution.
— from The Criminal by Havelock Ellis

The packet data networks use high speed digital links, which can be land lines or satellite communications, to transmit data from one computer to another using packets of data.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The inspection of streets came to be included among the duties of a scavager , but this was not so at first.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

West-North-West from it is a much higher range but, having a more regular outline than the mount, is not of so conspicuous a character.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King

The Beltraneja was given the alternative of marrying within six months Prince Juan, son of Ferdinand and Isabella, then but two years old, or of entering the Order of Santa Clara in a Portuguese house.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Those cowboys over on Sand Creek have the old Captain about frightened to death, and I think we had better remain where we are.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Her marriage with young Burden was the subject of sharp comment at the time.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather