Saying these words, Caddy laughingly sat down at a little jingling square piano and really rattled off a quadrille with great spirit.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

A true prayer and religious reconciling of ourselves to Almighty God cannot enter into an impure soul, subject at the very time to the dominion of Satan.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

A flash passed, a report rang out.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Public accounts formerly printed and reprinted revolve once more, and find their old station in this sober meridian.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

He inhabited a beautiful palace at the bottom of the sea at Ægea in Eubœa, and also possessed a royal residence on Mount Olympus, which, however, he only visited when his presence was required at the council of the gods.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The uncommon darkness of the night, the solemn silence, and lonely situation of the place, conspired with the occasion of his coming, and the dismal images of his fancy, to produce a real rapture of gloomy expectation, which the whole world would not have persuaded him to disappoint.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Roses covered the walls of the house, draped the cornices, climbed the pillars, and ran riot over the balustrade of the wide terrace, whence one looked down on the sunny Mediterranean, and the white-walled city on its shore.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

These productions were numerous, in the form of valuable papers and reports, read or presented to the local Diocesan Society.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

(He places a ruby ring on her finger.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In 1816 he made, for Ginevra di Piombo, a respectful request of her father that he would allow his daughter to marry Luigi Porta, an enemy of the family.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Yes, Mrs. Burlacombe; and I shall give some of these good people a rare rap over the knuckles for their want of charity.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

It is a manly doctrine, a clear-cut, respectable philosophy, a reasonable rule of business activity.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

During the greater part of September this year the Dean Forest Commissioners were engaged either at Newnham, Westbury, or the Speech-house hearing evidence “as to forming the Forest into a Parish,” and respecting “Rights of Common.”
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

Thy shoes shall be iron and brass,' that promises us powers and provision adapted to, and unexhausted by, the weary pilgrimage and rough road of life.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

The two women MSOs had unlocked the surgical table in Beulah's dispensary and a plastic tent covered not only the table and the patient, but also the plasma and Regen racks overhead.
— from Code Three by Rick Raphael

Seen from all sides Mt. Shasta presents a remarkably regular outline, and its beautiful conoidal form has excited the admiration of many observers.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

It is the tergum , again, which presents a remarkable range of difference; for the longitudinal depression or furrow which in the former varieties was quite open, here has its edges more or less folded inwards, and is sometimes quite closed.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

ad valorem on other exports and imports, were the only permanent and regular revenue of the Crown, and during the War of the Roses almost the sole addition to the yield of the royal estates.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Owing to the inadequate accommodation in the Reading Room on the first floor, the question of extending the Library building received the attention of the Committee for a considerable period, and eventually the City Engineer prepared plans for the extension of the building, to provide a reading room on the ground floor.
— from Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen

But as a secondary consideration this must not be forgotten, and the absence of an appeal of this kind makes for that tendency to dissipation of mind which is so unfortunate because [it is] so unworthy of human nature and at the same time proves so ineffective as providing any real recreation of mind.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh