The end of the receptacle expanded like a bead, bears a large number of stamens in 6 vertical series, with anthers sessile and 4-lobed.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The biographer, putting together the stray jottings of his manuscripts, may follow him through every day of it, up the strange tower of Siena, which looks towards Rome, elastic like a bent bow, down to the seashore at Piombino, each place appearing as fitfully as in a fever dream.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

And Gareth answered her with kindling eyes, 'Nay, nay, good mother, but this egg of mine Was finer gold than any goose can lay; For this an Eagle, a royal Eagle, laid Almost beyond eye-reach, on such a palm As glitters gilded in thy Book of Hours.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Her first measure was to grant letters of marque to privateers, authorising them to plunder all whom they fell in with; and she next collected a fleet and military force as large as the former one, and despatched them with general instructions to the leaders to regard every land as belonging to an enemy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

These reconnoissances were made under the supervision of Captain Robert E. Lee, assisted by Lieutenants P. G. T. Beauregard, Isaac I. Stevens, Z. B. Tower, G. W. Smith, George B. McClellan, and J. G. Foster, of the corps of engineers, all officers who attained rank and fame, on one side or the other, in the great conflict for the preservation of the unity of the nation.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"I am very sorry to decline your kind offer, even more for my own sake than yours," returned Elsie, laughing and blushing; "for I am extremely fond of confectionery; but I must say no, thank you."
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

"Merely because I have nothing to say," replied the knight, gravely; "except that at Sittenbourne, where you did me the honour of eating with me, though not with my horsemen, I did not perceive that Lady Katrine Bulmer was, in any respect, either like a beggar or ballad-singer."
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It was a bad rule established long ago by the maestros who lived in the capital.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

With a fine-toothed rake reduce every lump and bring the surface to the finest state of pulverization.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

From his lips issued a slow musical recitative, exactly like a bewitching adagio from a low toned stringed instrument—but there was a difference.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

Darkest clouds drop tender rain, Every leaf and blade is fain Its own jewel to obtain From the casket of its pain.
— from Borth Lyrics by Edward Thring

Nothing, however, was settled; and Bill continued to mud-lark, catch fish, run errands, look after boats, and hold gentlemen’s horses, till he was getting to be a big lad.
— from Sunshine Bill by William Henry Giles Kingston

The end of the eighteenth century was, too, a time of optimism and of dismal mediocrity in which the French Revolution exploded like a bombshell.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

From the branches that wove themselves across the centre of the river, and the topmast and rigging of the vessel, the same strong yellow light, produced by the bark of the birch tree steeped in gum, streamed down upon the decks below, rendering each line and block of the schooner as distinctly visible as if it had been noon on the sunniest of those far distant lakes.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson