As Matthew Arnold says, Keats "had flint and iron in him"; and in his next volume he accomplished his own purpose and silenced unfriendly criticism.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Mrs Jarley’s back being then towards him, the military gentleman shook his forefinger as a sign that her myrmidons were not to apprise her of his presence, and stealing up close behind her, tapped her on the neck, and cried playfully ‘Boh!’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

He heaped up the food on Stephen’s plate and served uncle Charles and Mr Casey to large pieces of turkey and splashes of sauce.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Accordingly considerations of this kind, including those which are once more directed to the concept of freedom in the practical use of the pure reason, must not be regarded as an interpolation serving only to fill up the gaps in the critical system of speculative reason (for this is for its own purpose complete), or like the props and buttresses which in a hastily constructed building are often added afterwards; but as true members which make the connexion of the system plain, and show us concepts, here presented as real, which there could only be presented problematically.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

We now became alarmed, for we could hardly imagine it possible that she did not observe us, and were apprehensive that she meant to leave us to perish as we were—an act of fiendish barbarity, which, however incredible it may appear, has been repeatedly perpetuated at sea, under circumstances very nearly similar, and by beings who were regarded as belonging to the human species.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The recent suggestion of using germinated dried pulses and seeds, under circumstances where fresh food is not available, is practical and probably will be resorted to in the future.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

You have heard, I suppose, that the Pyncheon family, ever since my grandfather's days, have been prosecuting a still unsettled claim to a very large extent of territory at the Eastward?" "Often," replied Maule,—and it is said that a smile came over his face,—"very often,—from my father!"
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many people are somewhat unduly concerned to know if it can be killed outright, and seem to desire a sort of certificate of its death and burial.
— from Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

" Fighting and love-making, petty politics and scuffle upon counter-scuffle—such was the life of the young French nobleman of whom La Rochefoucauld reveals himself and is revealed by others as the type and specimen.
— from Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse

Piqued at such unwonted contempt for his royal self, the king got out of his carriage, waddled across to where the girl stood, and kissed her.
— from Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

In the use of these she is quite pitiless, and she usually contrives to cunningly conceal them and to pounce upon her victim when he is most off his guard.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

"He ploughs up the path and ses us can't walk there because there arn't no path.
— from A Drake by George! by John Trevena

[the Governor] ordered a captain to go ahead with seventy horsemen and some peons in order to rebuild the bridges which had been burned, and the Governor remained behind while he was giving orders for many matters touching the welfare of the city and Republic which he was to leave already well established, and in order to await the reply of the Christians whom he had sent to the coast in order to examine the ports and set up crosses in them in case some one should come to reconnoitre the land.
— from An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho

Usa ca registrador An attorney Usa ca procurador A secretary Usa ca secretario An inspector Usa ca inspector A superintendent Usa ca superintendente A notary Usa ca notario Court of justice Juzgado.
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

In the old days at the Academy, however, we had no system of lighting except glaring footlights and perhaps a single, unimaginative calcium.
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg