Heare , v, 23 , pass for being so unlucky, in such evil case (Kitchin).
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

You know that a visa is useless, and that no passport is required?" "I know it, sir," replied Phileas Fogg; "but I wish to prove, by your visa, that I came by Suez.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

She found him, however, perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Frate, diss'egli, più ridon le carte Che pennelleggia Franco Bolognese; L'onor è tutto suo, e mio in parte.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

A circle of students formed round the table, and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the faults and omissions in Guicherat’s dictionaries and grammars.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

As the sun went down and the evening chill came on, we made preparation for bed.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

For my part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide; but when I was able to struggle no longer I found myself within my depth.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And like a palisade flit by.(72)
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

There are accepted precedents for both methods.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Further reforms will come slowly because of strong political forces backing government controls.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Here Katie paused for breath.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Mrs. H.W. Floyd, for Pupils, Fort Berthold, Indian M. 5.58 WISCONSIN, $425.19.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888 by Various

In a long-neglected pasture, a wide meadow torn by freshets, foul with noisome weeds, and strown with the wreckage left by winter’s storms, grew many a graceful vine that few have heeded; for it is not enough that the botanist should long ago have named it and that others should have besmirched its proper fame by calling it “carrion-flower.”
— from Outings at Odd Times by Charles C. (Charles Conrad) Abbott

The Legislature completed this part of the work, by constituting in each county a Board of Commissioners, composed of two persons, associated with the Probate Judge, whose duty it is to “appoint a county treasurer, coroner, justices of the peace, constables, and all other officers provided for by law,” and then proceeding to the choice of this very Board: thus delegating and diffusing their usurped power, and tyrannically imposing upon the Territory a crowd of officers, in whose appointment the people ha 182
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

[1] Dark sentinel hedgerow is guarding repose, Midst grotto and songlet and streamlet that flows Where beauty and perfume from buds burst away, And ope their closed cells to the bright, laughing day; [Pg 64] Yet, dwellers in Eden, earth yields you her tear,— Oft plucked for the banquet, but laid on the bier.
— from Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

Morgan’s cartoon entitled “A Brown Study” was resented by all decent-minded men, and both papers failed because they entirely misunderstood the tastes of those who at that time purchased weekly journals.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

We do not believe that any of the noises heard, or any of the information given, has proceeded from beings out of the normal state.
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

An ocean-roar of voices surged round the temple entrance now; but the red light flamed like the fires of hell, and I, peeping from behind a statue, revolver in hand, saw that the temple itself had not been invaded.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson