I don't know whether Miss Crawley had any private feeling of regard or emotion upon seeing her old favourite; but she held out a couple of fingers to him with as smiling and good-humoured an air, as if they had met only the day before.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

At first this remedy took the form of a coronet or a plain fillet or ribbon round the point of juncture, sometimes with and sometimes without the ends being visible.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The determination for this new one must proceed from other relations.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

It is hardly to be expected that much will be learned from an investigation of the gross pathology of these organs, but the microscopic anatomy offers a promising field of research.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

This latter use, however, is not in reference to the knowledge of nature or of its original ground, but rather to our own practical faculty of Reason, in analogy with which we considered the cause of that purposiveness.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

on our arrival at their encampmen on the river in a handsome level and fertile bottom at the distance of 4 Ms. from where we had first met them they introduced us to a londge made of willow brush and an old leather lodge which had been prepared for our reception by the young men which the chief had dispatched for that purpose.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One went up steps from the living room into the dining room and there were always steps to be ascended or descended in passing from one room to another.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

When the caziques found that our baggage was moving forward, they hastened before us to make the necessary preparations for our reception, and to adorn our quarters with green boughs.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

It meant that the majority of the inhabitants of a district could prevent any one of them from obtaining a particular form of refreshment.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

The guess almost always fixed upon some means which possessed features of real or apparent resemblance to the end in view.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Indeed, the Buongiovannis were known as one of the few patrician families of Rome that were still rich, still erect among the ruins of the past, now crumbling on every side.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

This was found to be a place “full of rocks and stones” and inhabited by flocks of “great foules white and gray, as big as geese.”
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon

True, he might divorce his wife the same day if he so chose, but then his and her object had been gained—they were both clear of the gaoler, whom they knew dare not trump up any case against them in the hope of one or the other being again committed to prison, for, once released by the Khaleefa’s orders, a prisoner might only be recommitted on them.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld

Fruit medium, variable in form, passing from ovate rounded at each end to ovate nearly cylindrical and more or less bossed; greenish-yellow, dotted and streaked with russet; flesh whitish, fine, breaking, perfumed; juice very abundant, saccharine, acidulous and very musky in flavor and agreeable; first; beginning of Feb. and through Mar. Mussette.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

It was dangerous, however, to attempt to pass from one ridge to another, for the lowland, or “bottom,” as we called it, was covered with a bed of mud, in which a horse would sink almost out of sight.
— from Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons by Harry Castlemon

Those lilies certainly were not useful, since they prevented the mirror exercising its proper function of reflecting what stood in front of it.
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson