There were the selectmen of Boston—plain patriarchal fathers of the people, excellent representatives of the old puritanical founders whose sombre strength had stamped so deep an impress upon the New England character.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you’re figuring that you can get along on the minimum physical effort required on the Central Worlds, you have a shock coming.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

R - Q 5 Of course if P × P; Black will have all his Pawns on the Queen's side disrupted and isolated, and White can easily regain the lost Pawn by playing either Rook on the Q R file.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Childe Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and in moody phrase ejaculates:— “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Away goes Spyers; on goes Chickweed; round turns the people; everybody roars out, "Thieves!"
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Adv. on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time|, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Figures 68 and 75 show forms which are perhaps especially representative of the general modern tendency in German work and many German artists are using letters of very similar general forms to these although, of course, with individual variations.
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

But a citizen named Meneklês impeached their decision as wrong or invalid, alleging seemingly some informality or trick in putting the question, or perhaps erroneous report of the comparative show of hands.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

This is the principal evening rendezvous of the Milanese, both high and low classes assembling for several hours, paying, however, less attention to the opera than to conversation, flirtation, gambling, and eating ices.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

The passionately eloquent reply of the boy captain is yet remembered by those who heard it.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

The Persian emissary returned, on the following day, bearing promises of a vague and delusive kind, and suggestions that, if the Persians were really inclined for peace, the best proof they could give of the sincerity of their inclinations would be the retirement of the besieging force.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

A Well-taken Law Point Mutilating Records A Palpable Erasure Relics of the Donner Party Five Hundred Articles Buried Thirty-two Years Knives, Forks, Spoons Pretty Porcelain Identifying Chinaware Beads and Arrow-heads A Quaint Bridle-bit Remarkable Action of
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

He looked at the necklace of pearls everlastingly reposing on the admirable cushion of her bosom, the great emeralds in her ears, the diamonds that were sparkling coldly on her hands.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez