Then the Interpreter took him and led him up toward the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in, but durst not.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

When, after many nights passed au bloc as these birds are now, I prevail upon the hagard to stay quietly on the wrist, then the bird is ready to be taught to come for its food.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But even so he left his chamber and bridal bed and prepared a banquet among the strangers, casting all fears from his heart.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

He plunged his face in a basin of water, and puffed and blew as he rubbed his neck and ears with his hands, while Carrie gazed upon him with mingled thoughts of recollection and present judgment.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The rules provide that weights decided upon at the initial delivery are good during the life of the grading certificate for re-delivery, with definite allowances to the receiver, on re-delivery, of a quarter of a pound a bag a month, instead of having to re-weigh and re-sample for every separate delivery, as formerly.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

domin ōs bon ōs -ōs pīl a bon a -a Abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Upon a table, by his side, are a gazette, two pipes, a bowl, a bottle, and a mug; above, on a scroll, is, "dish of coffee boy."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is true that the proportions laid down as causes of beauty in the human body, are frequently found in beautiful ones, because they are generally found in Page 205 all mankind; but if it can be shown too that they are found without beauty, and that beauty frequently exists without them, and that this beauty, where it exists, always can be assigned to other less equivocal causes, it will naturally lead us to conclude that proportion and beauty are not ideas of the same nature.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

[267] ANOTHER STYLE FOR ROASTS ALITER ASSATURAS TAKE 6 SCRUPLES OF PARSLEY, OF LASER [1] JUST AS MANY, 6 OF GINGER, 5 LAUREL BERRIES, 6 SCRUPLES OF PRESERVED LASER ROOT, CYPRIAN RUSH 6, 6 OF ORIGANY, A LITTLE COSTMARY, 3 SCRUPLES OF CHAMOMILE [or pellitory], 6 SCRUPLES OF CELERY SEED, 12 SCRUPLES OF PEPPER, AND BROTH AND OIL AS MUCH AS IT WILL TAKE UP [2].
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

After dinner into Deptford yard, but our bellies being full we could do no great business, and so parted, and Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by water, where we also parted, and I to several places about business, and so calling for my five books of the Variorum print bound according to my common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy I went home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is indispensable that the young man of to-day shall step, walk, stand properly, and be able to bow and dance, and not betray at once, on his appearance, that he has come from some school of pedantry.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

The pathway of this creek, full of knots and angles, almost perpendicular, and better adapted for goats than men, terminated on the platform where the plank was placed.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

To make matters worse, Ned learned that the other boys in the neighborhood, were not as lonely as he was; that they visited one another regularly; had hunting parties and barbecues, and were never at a loss to know how to pass the time in an agreeable manner.
— from George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House by Harry Castlemon

A solemn decision at first, adopted in practice afterwards by all branches of the Government, for five and forty years, makes the precedent one of almost irresistible force.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Even the Hudson and the Susquehanna--perhaps the Potomac itself--had often risen to drown out the gods of Walhalla, and one could hardly listen to the "Götterdämmerung" in New York, among throngs of intense young enthusiasts, without paroxysms of nervous excitement that toned down to musical philistinism at Baireuth, as though the gods were Bavarian composers.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

These achievements, with others of recent dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the same valour and constancy which glowed in the breasts of the heroes of Crècy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to animate the Britons of the nineteenth century.
— from Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

They may possess family papers, and be able to throw some further lights on these documents.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux