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

] MASSON (Publicola), born in 1795, the best known chiropodist in Paris, a radical Republican of the Marat type, even resembled the latter physically; counted Leon de Lora among his customers.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

44 Finally, the war correspondents at Manila, wearied with the military press censorship whereby General Otis had so long kept the situation from the people at home, with his eternal “situation-well-in-hand” telegrams, got together, inspired no doubt by the example of the Roosevelt round robin that had rescued the Fifth Army Corps from Cuba after the fighting down there, and prepared a round robin of their own—a protest against further misrepresentation of the facts.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Pay a reasonable royalty on the book, of course.
— from Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd by Samuel Merwin

It is a safer method, however, to make the sketch on drawing-paper, and to prick the outline very closely with a fine needle; then, the velvet being previously nailed on a flat piece of wood of a proper size, the pricked pattern may be laid over it, the roll of list dipped into the black lead powder, and rubbed regularly over the pattern from side to side; be careful to touch every part, and on removing the pattern, a perfect outline in black dots will appear on the velvet.
— from Home Arts for Old and Young by Caroline L. Smith

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

But it also provides a remarkable record of the effect of the sudden replacement of old by new ideals in the world which it depicted.
— from George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood

The title is put as “Rituali Romano” on the back in the copy before us, the most prominent words on the title-page having been transferred to the cover.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

This gentleman having long been known as a devoted abolitionist,—a fervid preacher of the doctrine, that character is above color,—and as one of the ablest advocates of the social, political, and religious rights of the colored man, I, of course, had a pleasant visit with the family; and, remaining with them several days, conceived a deep interest in one of the Elder's daughters,—Miss Mary E. King, who was then preparing to enter the College in Mc.
— from The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. by Allen, William G., active 1849-1853

Pushing a rickety raft out through the muck and water-reeds of the stagnant water, my friend showed me, on a clump of pickerel weed on a sunken stick, a nest of twigs on which was sitting a strange bird.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

Besides the pits above mentioned, there are numerous fractures in the surface of the plains and ringlike ridges; on the most of these the walls have separated, forming trenches not unlike what we find in the case of some terrestrial breaks such as have been noted about volcanoes and elsewhere.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler