CHAPTER FORTY-SIX UNDER THE UMBRELLA While Laurie and Amy were taking conjugal strolls over velvet carpets, as they set their house in order, and planned a blissful future, Mr. Bhaer and Jo were enjoying promenades of a different sort, along muddy roads and sodden fields.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

After pointing out and detecting some of the misstatements in the account, he proceeds: "As to his nonsense about victory, His Royal Highness will not much credit him.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

"Certainly; you don't suppose that evil spirits are frightened by bits of ribbon, or the perfumes of a druggist's shop?
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

482 The sentiments of nature, the habits of education, and the possession of a dependent species of property, contributed to alleviate the hardships of servitude.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A fair skinned Paraiyan, or a dark skinned Brāhman, should not, in accordance with a proverb, be seen the first thing in the morning.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The picture of a different state of things does not always function to aid ingenious observation and recollection to find a way out and on.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The presence of a divinity student was no barrier to his language at such a time, though for the reader's sake it may be severely edited.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

I. I SING the progresse of a deathlesse soule, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not controule, Plac'd in most shapes; all times before the law Yoak'd us, and when, and since, in this I sing.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

the diameter of the eye 41/2 10ths of an inch, the iris of a pale scarlet red, the puple of a deep Sea green or black and occupies about one third of the diameter of the eye the head and part of the neck as low as the figures 12 is uncovered with feathers except that portion of it represented by dots foward and under the eye.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

After mentioning Arthur Hallam and Sunderland, he says: ‘It was in company with Mr Sunderland and Arthur Hallam that I formed part of a deputation sent from the Union of Cambridge to the Union of Oxford; and what do you think we went about?
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

XIII Having some pressing occasion, a dervish stole a rug from the hut of a friend.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

The company passed on and dined sumptuously.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

The daughter of a man who, for a week, exercised the power of a dictator, she did not lift her finger to save a single one of the condemned prisoners from the executioner.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

First, the promise of a Divine Spirit by symbols which express some, at all events, of the characteristics and wonderfulness of His work.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Having completed my rounds there I returned home about eleven, washed and changed, putting on a dry suit of flannel; then, lying on a couch in the inner room, with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat, I munched some of the most delicious fruit—peaches, grapes, and melons—that it has ever been my good fortune to taste.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

Give me some sweet alms, Some reverie, some pang of a damasked sword, Some poignant moment yet unparalleled In my dream-broidered chronicles, some chord Of mystery Love's music never knelled Before;—but nought of the rough alchemy That disillusions all felicity.
— from The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor

Ōbaku lived at the beginning of the ninth century, and was thus a contemporary of the poet Po Chü-i. He enjoyed the patronage of a distinguished statesman the Chancellor Hai Kyū, of whom the Emperor said, “This is indeed a true Confucian.”
— from Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art by Arthur Waley

Strangely enough the consideration of her fellow passengers left the girl in undisturbed possession of a double seat.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Annabel withdrew herself and her fortune, and, freed from the family surroundings, she came across people of a different stamp; another education began for her, she fell under religious influences, made good friends, and settled down happily into a pleasant and useful life at Silverfold, a pretty village not far from London.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge