In the park are rustic seats, here and there, in secluded nooks that are dark with shade; there are rivulets of crystal water; there are lakelets, with inviting, grassy banks; there are glimpses of sparkling cascades through openings in the wilderness of foliage; there are streams of clear water gushing from mimic knots on the trunks of forest trees; there are miniature marble temples perched upon gray old crags; there are airy lookouts whence one may gaze upon a broad expanse of landscape and ocean.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

For anywhere it thou wilt mayest thou quickly find and apply that to thyself; which Plato saith of his philosopher, in a place: as private and retired, saith he, as if he were shut up and enclosed about in some shepherd's lodge, on the top of a hill.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Oh, well, if the people are really so hungering and thirsting for the gospel, as it is dispensed at Chautauqua, that they are willing to act a lie, by pretending that they are members who have been and are to be in regular attendance , and then are willing to pay two dollars and a half for the Sunday meeting, I don't know
— from Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

But I fortified it with thoughts of the past, and regularly set him at defiance, my only regret—I think, I will not be sure upon that point—my only regret being that the poor exiles of whom he had written to me would suffer from this estrangement, for I knew that he could not do a great deal for them.
— from A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn

Three of us,—whist and a dummy; nothing better, eh?" As he spoke, he produced from his coat- pocket a red silk handkerchief, a bunch of keys, a nightcap, a tooth- brush, a piece of shaving-soap, four lumps of sugar, the remains of a bun, a razor, and a pack of cards.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

She was a person who thoroughly enjoyed life; and indeed there was every reason that she should do so, since she was young, pretty, and rich; she had a quick mind and an alert tongue.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

When we reached the old gray house he looked [Pg 65] at her with pity and respect, saluted her, and withdrew.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

144 “I found Paddington, all right, sir,” he announced.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

"Can any of the wounded pull a rope?" said he; and such was his ascendency over the men, that several poor mangled fellows dragged themselves on deck, and lent their feeble strength to the working of the guns.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

Again, many people at railway stations have asked us, “Why don’t they join the rails together on this line?”
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

The reader will find excellent matter on this subject in Mary Carpenter's recent volume on Reformatory Schools, and in a 'Report of the Proceedings of a Conference on the Subject of Preventive and Reformatory Schools, held at Birmingham on the 9th and 10th of December 1851.' 'MEN OF THE TIME.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Various