He sank two lumps of sugar deftly longwise through the whipped cream.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I then over-estimated his force at thirty-seven thousand infantry, supposed to be made up of S. D. Lee's corps, four thousand; Cheatham's, five thousand; Hoke's, eight thousand; Hardee's, ten thousand; and other detachments, ten thousand; with Hampton's, Wheeler's, and Butler's cavalry, about eight thousand.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[26] TO PRESERVE SORREL OR SOUR DOCK LAPÆ [1] UT DIU SERVENTUR TRIM AND CLEAN
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

And as he rode by the way, he met with Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine, and so by adventure he met with four knights of Arthur's court, the first was Sir Sagramore le Desirous, Sir Osanna, Sir Dodinas le Savage, and Sir Felot of Listinoise; and there Sir Marhaus with one spear smote down these four knights, and hurt them sore.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Your National Assembly, stopped short in its Constitutional labours, may fatigue the royal ear with addresses and remonstrances: those cannon of ours stand duly levelled; those troops are here.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The waters, indeed, are to the palate bitter, and to the stomach cold; yet the thought of what I am going to, and of the conduct that waits for me on the other side, doth lie as a glowing coal at my heart.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

But on one occasion, when Arthur had been behaving particularly ill, and Mr. Huntingdon and his guests had been particularly provoking and insulting to me in their encouragement of him, and I particularly anxious to get him out of the room, and on the very point of demeaning myself by a burst of uncontrollable passion—Mr. Hargrave suddenly rose from his seat with an aspect of stern determination, lifted the child from his father’s knee, where he was sitting half-tipsy, cocking his head and laughing at me, and execrating me with words he little knew the meaning of, handed him out of the room, and, setting him down in the hall, held the door open for me, gravely bowed as I withdrew, and closed it after me.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Oh, she did look sweet.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Our remedies oft in our selues do lye, Which we ascribe to heauen: the fated skye Giues vs free scope, onely doth backward pull Our slow designes, when we our selues are dull.
— from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

Then, in obedience to another order, the blacks descended, and the overseer stepped down last, to seat himself with his back to the dogs; while the smith and his assistant once more took up their guns and their places as guards.
— from Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by George Manville Fenn

First set of posthumous Nouvelles , etc., 1854 onwards; second ditto ( Lamiel , etc.), 1887 onwards.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Perhaps the Colonel had expected to see in the khan’s harem a mass of silken draperies, luxurious couches and priceless rugs, while scowling black eunuchs guarded with their naked swords a group of henna-dyed, be-painted and bespangled girls.
— from Daughters of Destiny by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

O souvenirs de la jeunesse, Frais comme un rayon du printemps!
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

Then it was, with the arrival before the gate of the citadel of Sir Drury Lowe and his cavalry brigade fresh from Tel-el-Kebir, that England’s peaceful occupation of Cairo began.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore

And after all is not mission business part of the world's business, and must not the measure of success depend largely on the same factors in the one case as in the other?
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

[43] and John Bale's list of English authors; and, finally, bibliographies of special disciplines like ecclesiastical history, medicine (Otto Brunfels and Symphorien Champier), and law.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor