With the utmost regard for the family, for instance (for I dine with them twice or thrice in the season), I cannot but own that the appearance of the Jenkinses in the park, in the large barouche with the grenadier-footmen, will surprise and mystify me to my dying day: for though I know the equipage is only jobbed, and all the Jenkins people are on board wages, yet those three men and the carriage must represent an expense of six hundred a year at the very least—and then there are the splendid dinners, the two boys at Eton, the prize governess and masters for the girls, the trip abroad, or to Eastbourne or Worthing, in the autumn, the annual ball with a supper from Gunter's (who, by the way, supplies most of the first-rate dinners which J. gives, as I know very well, having been invited to one of them to fill a vacant place, when I saw at once that these repasts are very superior to the common run of entertainments for which the humbler sort of J.'s acquaintances get cards)—who, I say, with the most good-natured feelings in the world, can help wondering how the Jenkinses make out matters?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Tell them to put everything they have cold, on the table, and some bottled ale, and let us taste your very best Madeira.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The former may be termed the character of the thing as a phenomenon, the latter the character of the thing as a thing in itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Among the five great feats of dexterity whereby they became gods, the greatest—in which they appear as successful rivals of Tvashṭṛi, the artificer god—consists in their having transformed his bowl, the drinking vessel of the gods, into four shining cups.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The Team's own liaison officers transmit the order to the appropriate divisions and lower echelons.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

During the last twenty years most of us have sent an army of lumpy dishes to the melting-pot, and junky ornaments to the ash heap along with plush table covers, upholstered mantel-boards and fern dishes!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Her face was burning, and, in order to conceal her agitation, she bent over the table as if she were short-sighted and made a show of reading the newspaper.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What on earth is the use of time to a fellow who has twice as much of it as he knows what to do with?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

At the instance of Chia Chen, Chia Jung, the next day donned his gala dress and went over for his papers; and on his return the articles in use in front of the coffin, as well as those belonging to the cortege and other such things, were all regulated by the rules prescribed for an official status of the fifth degree; while, on the tablet and notice alike the inscription consisted of: Spirit of lady Ch'in, (by marriage) of the Chia mansion, and by patent a lady of the fifth rank (of the titles of honour).
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The following extracts from the official records of the Trustees, are deemed worthy of insertion in this connection in order to a full understanding of the circumstances attending President Lord's resignation.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

And by as much as the weeping is more violent or hysterical, by so much will the relief be greater,—on the same principle that the writhing of the whole body, the grinding of the teeth, and the uttering of piercing shrieks, all give relief under an agony of pain.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

He leaned over the table and implored me in a stage whisper to go away.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

And Moses, seeing that the king had recognised Jehovah as the true cock of the theological walk, procured a cessation of the thunder and the hail.
— from Bible Romances, First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote

The writer is aware of the great responsibility which devolves upon him, in being thus admitted into many thousands of families with monthly messages of counsel and instruction to the children, which he has the opportunity, through the artistic and mechanical resources placed at his disposal, to clothe in a form that will be calculated to open to him a very easy access to their attention, their confidence, and their hearts.
— from Bruno; or, lessons of fidelity, patience, and self-denial taught by a dog by Jacob Abbott

As First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, for twenty years he maintained his leadership, the first of the prime ministers.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Thou God of them that are not yet, but grow!
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

A light breeze rose, stirring the silk roof of the tent, and sweeping together the roses which lay scattered over the arena.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

As soon as we had done with the Duke of York we did attend the Council; and were there called in, and did hear Mr. Sollicitor make his report to the Council in the business of a complaint against us, for having prepared certificates on the Exchequer for the further sum of 50,000l.; which he did in a most excellent manner of words, but most cruelly severe against us, and so were some of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, as men guilty of a practice with the tradesmen, to the King's prejudice.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

Besides the ordinary single and double chambers, this house contains about thirty suites of apartments, of two, three, and four chambers, for the accommodation of families.
— from A Guide to the Virginia Springs Giving, in addition to the routes and distances, a description of the springs and also of the natural curiosities of the state by J. J. (John Jennings) Moorman