The sun shone brightly, and the church bells were ringing merrily as the people passed by, dressed in their best clothes, with their prayer-books under their arms.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Essays: by J. Jacobs, in Literary Studies; by H. James, in Partial Portraits; by Dowden, in Studies in Literature; by Hutton, Harrison, Brownell, Lilly (see above).
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

per pottle; but dry goods still brought their prices.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

Cf. P. Perdrizet, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique , 1899, p. 635.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

; season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

; yawn &c. (get sleepy) 683; droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb. fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Examine the sentences Puella est parva , the girl is little Puella parva bonam deam amat , the little girl loves the good goddess In the first sentence the adjective parva is separated from its noun by the verb and stands in the predicate.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

SYN: Imbue, impregnate, infect, defile, corrupt, stain, sully, tarnish, contaminate, vitiate, poison, pollute, blot, disgrace, dishonor.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The majority carried their point piecemeal by dint of different votes, against which very severe protests were entered.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was the well-known objection which Emerson had taken to Carlyle's overwrought style, pointed probably by dislike of the way Oscar monopolised conversation.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris

The Droichis Part of the Play , possibly by Dunbar (Laing, ii. 37; Small, ii. 314; Schipper, 190), the two-beat lines are frequently intermingled and blended with even-beat lines, which from the beginning of the fifth stanza onward completely take the place of the two-beat lines in the last-mentioned poem.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

He hereby wants £12.” (At this point Peter began dictation).
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

Nothing more particular passed before dinner, the hour of which was drawing near; but a wedding-feast is, at any time, worthy of a chapter.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt

He had had some experience in his Islington days of the strange phenomena produced by drink.
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

I felt like a creature in a haunted place, pursued by devils, mocked by strange voices in the air, deceived by the senses, tricked by unrealities, persecuted by memories, the victim of fear, falsities, and impotent rage.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

It now appeared that the original suggestion had very powerfully appealed to the imagination of the ladies, who had kept it pretty persistently before Don Hermoso, until he, worthy man, finding nothing very convincing to advance against it, had been gradually brought into a frame of mind that needed very little further persuasion to induce him to give it his willing assent.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

Be sure every piece is in its proper position before driving in the brads and then be positive that no brad is being driven at a point where the dowel must be free to move in the hole.
— from Toy Craft by Leon H. Baxter

There was Prickly Porky backing down as fast as he could, which wasn't fast at all, and rattling his thousand little spears as he did so.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess