After they had past some time together, in such a manner that my honest friend might have thought himself at one of his silent meetings, the Quaker began to be moved by some spirit or other, probably that of curiosity, and said, “Friend, I perceive some sad disaster hath befallen thee; but pray be of comfort.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Her white feet trod the huge press at which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red foam over the vat's black, dripping, sloping sides.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This was prompted by our column being met as it would come into a town by the town band.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The night of the 16th I camped near an old prison bivouac opposite Columbia, known to our prisoners of war as "Camp Sorghum," where remained the mud-hovels and holes in the ground which our prisoners had made to shelter themselves from the winter's cold and the summer's heat.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

vecindario m population, body of citizens.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Pallid men rushed by, pinching together their coat-collars; a great swarm of tired, magpie girls from a department-store crowded along with shrieks of strident laughter, three to an umbrella; a squad of marching policemen passed, already miraculously protected by oilskin capes.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The long avenue so bright and pleasant when the perfumed limes scattered their light bloom upon the pathway, and the dog-rose leaves floated on the summer air, was terribly bleak and desolate in the cheerless interregnum that divides the homely joys of Christmas from the pale blush of coming spring—a dead pause in the year, in which Nature seems to lie in a tranced sleep, awaiting the wondrous signal for the budding of the flower.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

She could not fully enjoy the sweetness of the forbidden fruit unless I plucked it without reserve, and the effect produced by our constantly lying in each other’s arms was too strong for a young girl to resist.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Independence and ability are repressed under the tyranny of the rules, and practically the power of the popular branch of Congress is concentrated in the Speaker and a few—very few—expert parliamentarians."
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

Here, bright and cheerful to the last, he died on 29th February and was buried in Collingwood on March 2nd, deeply regretted by all sailorfolk and particularly by our crew.
— from A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

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— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

They were [Pg 86] usually based on the chronicles, but the method of composition just described was applied to legend or poem with similar results, and there were also plays based on chronicles of contemporary events.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

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— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

Its vertical walls sweep in an S-shaped curve and spring from the river level to the apex of the dome, with projecting bosses of coral and with cascades that awake the echoes as they fall.
— from Hovey's Handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky A Practical Guide to the Regulation Routes by Horace Carver Hovey

It was this: of all passages bearing on Christianity in that form of a worldly wisdom, the most Christian, and so to speak, the key of the whole position, is the Christian doctrine of revenge.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson