“I'll admit a laundry hasn't got the class of poetry or real estate, but just the same, Orvy is mighty deep.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Allow me to say, however, that your fair partner does not disgrace you, and that I must hope to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when a certain desirable event, my dear Eliza (glancing at her sister and Bingley) shall take place.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

For it is usual, as you know well, with him whose ways are inscrutable, to manifest his own ineffable glory in blunting the perspicacy of the eyes of the wise, in weakening the strength of potent oppressors, in depressing the pride of rich extortioners, and in erecting, comforting, protecting, supporting, upholding, and shoring up the poor, feeble, humble, silly, and foolish ones of the earth.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

But of all names in the universe he had the most unconquerable aversion for T RISTRAM ;—he had the lowest and most contemptible opinion of it of any thing in the world,—thinking it could possibly produce nothing in rerum natura, but what was extremely mean and pitiful: So that in the midst of a dispute on the subject, in which, by the bye, he was frequently involved,——he would sometimes break off in a sudden and spirited E PIPHONEMA , or rather E ROTESIS , raised a third, and sometimes a full fifth above the key of the discourse,——and demand it categorically of his antagonist, Whether he would take upon him to say, he had ever remembered,——whether he had ever read,— or even 99 whether he had ever heard tell of a man, called Tristram, performing any thing great or worth recording? —
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It's a yea-saying to the point of justifying, to the point of redeeming even all that is past.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They possess the best and most accurate maps, in which are laid down not only all the towns, villages, and rivers, but also the houses of the gentry and others; and they fix upon places of rendezvous every ten days, at twenty leagues from the point from whence they set out....
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Besides this, two sets of (cooked and uncooked) packets of rice (each stained a different colour) are sometimes deposited in the tray, the colours used being white, yellow, red, black, blue, green, and purple.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Having a faculty, matured on the tops of baggage-waggons and in other such positions, of resting easily anywhere, she perches on a rough bench, unties her bonnet-strings, pushes back her bonnet, crosses her arms, and looks perfectly comfortable.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Fugientes autem versus Notum trans mare, et viginti quatuor menses per litora Libye versus Orientem errantes, ubi est petra quedam magna sculpta instar Ethiopis capitis, deinde dies quatuor ab ostio fluminis magni ejecti partim submersi sumus partim morbo mortui sumus: in fine autem a feris hominibus portabamur per paludes et vada, ubi avium multitudo celum obumbrat, dies decem, donec advenimus ad cavum quendam montem, ubi olim magna urbs erat, caverne quoque immense; duxerunt autem nos ad reginam Advenaslasaniscoronantium, que magicâ utebatur et peritiá omnium rerum, et saltem pulcritudine et vigore insenescibilis erat.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It was the best meal we had either of us had in days—great pilaus of rice, excellent chicken, and fresh unleavened bread.
— from War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt

1. Portrait of Robert Evans.
— from George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 Catalogue of Relics, Manuscrips, Prints, Paintings, Photographs & Books relating to George Eliot by Coventry (England). Public Libraries Committee

In the following pages the more important periodicals, official reports, etc., are mentioned, together with a chronological catalogue of the works on Adulteration and allied subjects.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

The power of retaining electricity depends also on the shape of the charged body.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

Twice a week he invited some members of the Government; once a month he gave a great dinner to a hundred guests at the Tuileries, in the Gallery of Diana; after these dinners he received every one who held an important post or rank, either military or civil, and also foreigners of note.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

"There is plenty of room elsewhere," returned Miss Barry with some asperity.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

" The author says then: "Here is a clear and full parliamentary declaration, that by the antient law and Constitution of England, founded on principles of reason, equity, and good conscience, the allegiance of the subject is due to the King for the time being, and to him alone.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

[The Princease de Lamballe sent me directions that very evening, some time after midnight, to be at our place of rendezvous early in the morning.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

In 1877 he made his way to the Pacific coast country and took up a homestead in Walla Walla county, Washington, which he has since made his place of residence, erecting fine buildings on his property and otherwise improving the same until it is now very valuable.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman