4 The full dress of the Filipino women, consisting of the camisa, pañuelo , and saya suelta , the latter a heavy skirt with a long train.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Thus the chalice and paten denoted a priest; a sword showed the knight; an axe, a forester; an ink-horn, a notary; shears, a wool merchant.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

After pride, she wanted comfort, solace, for pride and scorn seemed to hurt her most of all.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He had just communicated to me what the king had said to him about my going there, which was a kind of invitation to me from that monarch, and the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha depended so much upon my taking the journey that she wrote to me desiring I should go to see her in my way to the court of Prussia, and stay some time before I proceeded farther; but I was so attached to Switzerland that I could not resolve to quit it so long as it was possible for me to live there, and I seized this opportunity to execute a project of which I had for several months conceived the idea, and of which I have deferred speaking, that I might not interrupt my narrative.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

said the nurse, picking up the cork of the green bottle, which had fallen out on the pillow, as she stooped to take up the child.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Whereupon Don Rosendo commissioned his friends Alvaro Peña and Sinforoso Suarez to take his challenge to the editor of "The Future."
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

With a scream of piercing anguish, she sprang to her side, where she lay close by a knotted root of the tree, which she had struck in falling.
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.

She made a wonderful picture as she stood there peering out at the fighting men.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

Yes, she could be happy here; as she peeled a peach and slowly swallowed the soft fragrant mouthfuls, she laughed to remember the hard ship's- biscuit, of the two previous days' fare.
— from Serapis — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

I would, were it possible, always see "Rob Roy" in Edinburgh, "Le Tartuffe" in Paris, and "She Stoops to Conquer" in England.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Each stamen is composed of two parts: a slender stem (the filament) and a little sac at the end (the anther) which is filled with pollen dust.
— from Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent

Platonian affairs seemed suddenly tame.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

It was a piteous and sad sight to see all the pleasant dwellings of a land laid waste, the hopes of the year's labour all destroyed; and the busy human emmets, that had there toiled and joyed, swept away as if the wing of a pestilence had brushed the face of the earth, or lying murdered on their desolate hearths.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

As in those days, too, a sort of black mail is levied, and treaties of peace are concluded, one of the parties paying a stipulated sum to the other.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

His love of Patroclus, like that of Jonathan for David, "passeth the love of women"; an affection for his elder, the playmate of his childhood, so pure and so strong that poets of historic Greece could not understand it.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang