For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The solar rays easily crossed this aqueous mass and dispersed its dark colors.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Then, when they had established their camp in a grove of sycamores which bordered the little river Ept, Clifford, the acknowledged master of all that pertained to sportsmanship, took command.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But Mihailov remained equally chilly to all of them.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“A rich Englishman,” continued the abbé, “who had been his companion in misfortune, but had been released from prison during the second restoration, was possessed of a diamond of immense value; this jewel he bestowed on Dantès upon himself quitting the prison, as a mark of his gratitude for the kindness and brotherly care with which Dantès had nursed him in a severe illness he underwent during his confinement.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

On the twenty-fifth of April, and the eighteenth of June, the days of marriage and widowhood, she kept her room entirely, consecrating them (and we do not know how many hours of solitary night-thought, her little boy sleeping in his crib by her bedside) to the memory of that departed friend.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The wind, forcing its way between the two rubber edges, causes them and the air inside the tube to vibrate, and a musical note results.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I will only now point at the wonderful effects and power of it; which, as it is eminent in all, so most especially it rageth in melancholy persons, in keeping the species of objects so long, mistaking, amplifying them by continual and [1601] strong meditation, until at length it produceth in some parties real effects, causeth this, and many other maladies.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They want all those six non-natural things at once, good air, good diet, exercise, company, sleep, rest, ease, &c., that are bound in chains all day long, suffer hunger, and (as [2196] Lucian describes it) must abide that filthy stink, and rattling of chains, howlings, pitiful outcries, that prisoners usually make; these things are not only troublesome, but intolerable.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Indeed, I might say that you cannot have so great, for the best of all reasons, that you have not seen so much of it; you have not stood on the banks of the Ganges, and seen the Hindoos by tens of thousands rushing madly to throw themselves into the sacred river, even carrying the ashes of their dead to cast them upon the waters.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Hooker, Richard , English Church theologian and ecclesiastical writer, born in Exeter; famous as the author of "Ecclesiastical Polity," in defence of the Church against the Puritans, characterised by Stopford Brooke as "a stately work, and the first monument of splendid literary prose that we possess"; of this work Pope Clement VIII.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Mr. Bingle opened the front door with a great deal of ceremony the instant the rickety elevator came to a stop at the seventh floor, and gave greeting to the five Sykeses on the dark, narrow landing.
— from Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon

Many exaggerated reports exist concerning the accuracy of the shooting of American Indians; but here we have one who shot ever since childhood, who lived by hunting, and must have been as good, if not better, than the average.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

Maximus was quick to arm rebellion, Eugenius careful to attempt only what was safe.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

He rose, evidently considering the affair settled.
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Few war rumors ever come to anything, but there are times when they circulate with astonishing frequency and persistence and cause decided uneasiness concerning financial conditions at important points.
— from Elements of Foreign Exchange: A Foreign Exchange Primer by Franklin Escher

The history of our old architects in England and France is very peculiar; they were, as a rule, each confined to a certain district, in which they wrought in what was in fact a merely local variety of their national style.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

"Oh, but gypsies aren't the only queer people who have come to the ranch," Elizabeth continued; "there are other rough looking men whom father spends hours and hours with.
— from The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

According to David A. Wells, the author of "Recent Economic Changes," the annual producing capacity of a Bessemer converter was increased fourfold between 1873 and 1886, and four men can now make a given product of steel in the same time and with less cost of material than it took ten men ten years ago to accomplish.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee