" "I was sixteen," said Leslie, rising, and picking up the cap and jacket lying beside her.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually using the words “Pall Mall Gazette” as a sort of talisman, I managed to find the keeper of the section of the Zoölogical Gardens in which the wolf department is included.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

There was a brief silence; the abbé rose and paced up and down pensively, and then resumed his seat.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In the year 156, Marcus Aurelius Verus, the fourteenth emperor after Augustus, governed the empire with his brother Aurelius Comodus; in whose time, Glutherius, a holy man, being pope of the church of Rome, Lucius, king of Britaines, wrote unto him, desiring that by his commandment he might be made Christian; which his request was granted him; whereby the Britaines receiving then the faith, kept it sound and undefiled in rest and peace until Dioclesian the emperor’s time.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

You go wandering for hours among hills and wooded glens, artfully contrived to leave the impression that Nature shaped them and not man; following winding paths and coming suddenly upon leaping cascades and rustic bridges; finding sylvan lakes where you expected them not; loitering through battered mediaeval castles in miniature that seem hoary with age and yet were built a dozen years ago; meditating over ancient crumbling tombs, whose marble columns were marred and broken purposely by the modern artist that made them; stumbling unawares upon toy palaces, wrought of rare and costly materials, and again upon a peasant’s hut, whose dilapidated furniture would never suggest that it was made so to order; sweeping round and round in the midst of a forest on an enchanted wooden horse that is moved by some invisible agency; traversing Roman roads and passing under majestic triumphal arches; resting in quaint bowers where unseen spirits discharge jets of water on you from every possible direction, and where even the flowers you touch assail you with a shower; boating on a subterranean lake among caverns and arches royally draped with clustering stalactites, and passing out into open day upon another lake, which is bordered with sloping banks of grass and gay with patrician barges that swim at anchor in the shadow of a miniature marble temple that rises out of the clear water and glasses its white statues, its rich capitals and fluted columns in the tranquil depths.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

He lived in the time of Ptolemy Philopater, and resided at Pergamus, under the patronage of Eumenes II. and Attalus II.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The Roman atrium , preserved under the name of proaulium ( preau , ante-court), was placed in front of the salutorium (hall of reception), where visitors were received.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The first thing she did was to make him hustle round and put up a tombstone to the first Mrs. Job—and she had a place left on it for her own name.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

All efforts to restore animation proved unavailing till the false king, with the instinct of a true sportsman, transferred his own soul to the body of the deceased ram, and thus renewed the fray.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Henchard dusted his boots, washed his hands at the riverside, and proceeded up the town under the feeble lamps.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The question whether, as suggested above, fructose actually forms part of the fermenting complex, and the further questions, whether, if so, it is an essential constituent, or whether it can be replaced by glucose or mannose with formation of a less active complex, remain at present undecided, and cannot profitably be more fully discussed until further information is available.
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden

[Pg 124] er too indefinite rites and peculiar usages.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

It met with strong opposition, and then it was that Richard Henry Lee became roused, and poured upon his astonished audience a flood of eloquence against the importing traffic of human beings, that raised him at once to the pinnacle of fame as an eloquent orator.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

She was sitting in her dingy wrapper, rocking, and pondering upon the conversation of the morning—mechanically rocking, and thinking of the Christinas dinner at Uncle Lawrence’s.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

If similar or corresponding abuses were indulged at other stations here, as it is a legitimate inference they were, it is also a legitimate inference that similar abuses were, and are, practiced throughout the country, especially in cities of the first, second and third classes—in cities and towns on which has been conferred the distinguished honor of having their mail handled under the watchful eye and supervising care of a “Presidential Postmaster,” that is, by a postmaster appointed by the President for partisan reasons and prospective uses .
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

Chunky's horse reared and plunged until the boy was forced to drop his rifle and hang on desperately, while the pony tore about the field.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim by Frank Gee Patchin

He gave up his gun and was taken back to the rear and placed under guard—the first prisoner the Ninth Illinois Cavalry had captured.
— from The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison by William N. (William Nelson) Tyler

Beyond 197 a long line of stoves extended a row of ovens, and close to them hillocks of wheaten flour whiter than snow, rocks of sugar, jars of the purest oil, and pastry in vast abundance, which a numerous tribe of lay brothers and their attendants were rolling and puffing up into a hundred different shapes, singing all the while as blithely as larks in a cornfield.”
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

" "No, indeed I do not," Violet returned, earnestly, and then, overcome by the sudden realization of what she had done—that he was almost a stranger and she had been guilty of a rash and perhaps unmaidenly act—a burning blush leaped to the roots of her hair, and for the moment she was speechless from shame and embarrassment.
— from His Heart's Queen by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

Whereas in Germany and France such aid is officially recognized and placed under direct military control, the English Red Cross societies have acted side by side with, but independently of, the military ambulance organization.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg