The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Pencroft, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett, on their return to Granite House, told the engineer all that had passed, and the latter approved of their arrangements both for the present and the future.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

A prince picks up grandeur, power, and a permanent holiday and gratis support by a pure accident, the accident of birth, and he stands always before the grieved eye of poverty and obscurity a monumental representative of luck.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The then governor of New York, Burnet (son of Bishop Burnet), hearing from the captain that a young man, one of his passengers, had a great many books, desir'd he would bring me to see him.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

You know yourself that an uncertain position has a great tendency to make people apathetic.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you hold the page horizontally and give it a quick rotary motion while looking at the centre of the spiral, it will appear to revolve.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

“Besides, sir,” says he, “I promise you I have as good an inclination to the cause as any man can possibly have; and go I will, whether you admit me to go in your company or not.” Jones, who was as much pleased with Partridge as Partridge could be with him, and who had not consulted his own inclination but the good of the other in desiring him to stay behind, when he found his friend so resolute, at last gave his consent; but then recollecting himself, he said, “Perhaps, Mr Partridge, you think I shall be able to support you, but I really am not;” and then taking out his purse, he told out nine guineas, which he declared were his whole fortune.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

None the less—says one ingenuous German witness—“the people had all got a very high opinion of Germany.”
— from German Atrocities: An Official Investigation by J. H. (John Hartman) Morgan

A stuffing might be made of bread crumbs, chopped sage and onions, pepper and salt, and baked separately on a pie dish; this method is better than putting it in the meat, as many persons have a great aversion to its flavor.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Ploss has a good deal to say of this famous bird, and Carstens has made it the subject of a brief special study,—"The Stork as a Sacred Bird in Folk-Speech and Child-Song" (198).
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

However well acquainted with the craft of the forest, up in everything pertaining to timber, upon the treeless plains of Texas, an old prairie man would sneeringly pronounce him a “greenhorn.”
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

" Moi ," replied Ramsey, planting herself and gazing up the river, " je préfére to stay right here."
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Our first step after it came was to drive to the nearest public house and get each a steaming drink of hot brandy, after which we ate a hasty breakfast.
— from The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer

The poet himself also gives to Dodonæan Jupiter, the epithet of Pelasgian:— [Pg 329] “Pelasgian, Dodonæan Jove supreme.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

“But dey tells me dat ef folks whut’s bin bad prays ter de Lawd an’ kisses de place whut hurts, dat some time de Lawd makes de place well ergin; dat is,—ef de bad chile promise he ain’ gwine be bad no mo’.”
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

[CHLOE passes him and goes out, Left.]
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy