The whole story of their meeting at Interlachen, and his brave adventure with the eaglet, were related to them, and they were all very much interested, and as pleased about Rudy and Babette as the miller himself.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Epicurean, having abandoned politics and religion and being afraid of any far-reaching ambition, applied philosophy honestly enough to what remained.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

There is an English garrison at Gibraltar of 6,000 or 7,000 men, and so uniforms of flaming red are plenty; and red and blue, and undress costumes of snowy white, and also the queer uniform of the bare-kneed Highlander; and one sees soft-eyed Spanish girls from San Roque, and veiled Moorish beauties (I suppose they are beauties) from Tarifa, and turbaned, sashed, and trousered Moorish merchants from Fez, and long-robed, bare-legged, ragged Muhammadan vagabonds from Tetuan and Tangier, some brown, some yellow and some as black as virgin ink—and Jews from all around, in gabardine, skullcap, and slippers, just as they are in pictures and theaters, and just as they were three thousand years ago, no doubt.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Just as a silver mirror that is formed of a thin plate reflects indistinctly and with a feeble light, while one that is substantially made can take on a very high polish, and reflects a brilliant and distinct image when one looks therein, so it is with stucco.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Without a tear she backed her own brave palfrey, and rode, attended by a dozen servitors, faithful amid her sorrows as they had been in brighter days, into the rebel host.
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert

Schouvaloff, Count Peter , a Russian ambassador, born at St. Petersburg; became in 1806 head of the secret police; came to England in 1873 on a secret mission to arrange the marriage of the Emperor Alexander II.'s daughter with the Duke of Edinburgh; was one of Russia's representatives at the Congress of Berlin (1827-1889).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

They are rose pink and really as big as small rambler roses, each head hanging down on its long stalk.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes

After complaining she has met with envy and persecution where she deserved praise, she declares her intention to persevere, and relate, as briefly as possible, such stories as she knows to be true , and to have been formed into lays by the Britons .
— from The Lay of Marie and Vignettes in Verse by Matilda Betham

But I remember that when Uncle William made this speech in Berlin the Turkish ambassador said after it that he now knew so much about America that he wanted to die, and that the Shah of Persia wrote a letter to Uncle, all in his own writing, except the longest words, and said that he had ordered Uncle's speech on America to be printed and read aloud by all the schoolmasters in Persia under penalty of decapitation.
— from The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities by Stephen Leacock

Yea, have I seen the poor people of England roaming by the wayside and eating garbage which scarcely the fox or the foul birds of the air would touch, rambling in the woods and fields in search of roots and berries, ay, grazing on the bank-side like cattle, or that great sinner Nebuchadnezzar; for flocks and herds were swept away, and slaughtered, and wasted by the armed bands that ever ranged the country, or were kept penned up within the castles of the strong men—those pestilent barons and knights that were now for Matilda and now for Stephen, and always for plunder and all crime, living and fattening upon great and bloody thievings— magna et sanguineolentia latrocinia : and the fields could not be cultivated because of the continual passing and repassing, and burning, and fighting, and slaying of these armed hosts and bands of robbers, who did worse than the heathen had ever done; for after a time they spared neither church nor churchyard, neither a bishop's land nor an abbat's land, and not more the lands of a priest than the fields of a franklin, but plundered both monks and clerks!
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

“The preachers and reformers and bishops and rabbis make me sick.
— from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

A balloon at that period had not been invented; yet I beheld a good number of visitors merrily hopping over the flowery mead that led to the temple, culling posies and running after butterflies, and in hearty fits of laughter on beholding the poor pilgarlicks who were puffing and blowing in vain to climb up the other face of the hill.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

I assume the price at random, as being a matter of no importance; but, in fact, I understand that at Melbourne, and other places in the province of Victoria, this really is the ruling price at present.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Thomas De Quincey

In horrid climes where Chiloe's tempests sweep Tumultuous murmurs o'er the troubled deep, 'Twas his to mourn misfortune's rudest shock, Scourged by the winds, and cradled on the rock, To wake each joyless morn and search again The famished haunts of solitary men; Whose race, unyielding as their native storm, Know not a trace of nature but the form; Yet at thy call the hardy tar pursued, Pale, but intrepid, sad, but unsubdued; Pierced the deep woods, and hailing from afar The moon's pale planet, and the northern star; Paused at each dreary cry unheard before, Hyenas in the wild, and mermaids on the shore; Till led by thee o'er many a cliff sublime, He found a warmer world, a milder clime, A home to rest, or shelter to defend, Peace and repose, a Briton and a friend!"— Campbell .
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt