They were her countrywomen: and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They were her countrywomen; and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"After what you have just said to me," she replied firmly, "I refuse my signature until I have read every line in that parchment from the first word to the last.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

But in his desire to swell the roll of members, Russell encouraged laxity in the labours of the committee.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

"The boy had better be all right...." Eric landed in the canyon and made sure that the aircar was hidden under a ledge, with branches drawn about it so that no one could spot it from above.
— from Homo Inferior by Mari Wolf

Did you notice you could read every letter in the label on that ham?
— from The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson

The dwelling-places were all in the centre court, and there was the same large round entrance left in the wall, through which you could pass into a small court at the side.
— from The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls by Eleanor Raper

The deception is therefore best seen when the painting is executed on a very flat board, and in colours sufficiently vivid to represent every line in the face with tolerable distinctness at great obliquities.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

His little red eyes, lost in the mass of hair, were motionless.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

Les routiers en Lorraine , in the Journal de la Société archéologique de Lorraine , 1866, p. 161.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Then the 212th Reserve Regiment entered line in the Aire valley near Baulny, while the remainder of the division moved farther to the west and entered line to the north of Fontaine en Dormois (northeast of Suippes).
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

How long they stood like this neither of them could afterwards have said, but it seemed an hour, during which the steamer was borne broadside on by the huge roller, each listener in the deafening turmoil and confusion bracing himself for the shock when she struck, till the rate at which she progressed began to slacken into a steady glide, the deafening roar of breakers grew less, and at last she rode on and on, rising and falling gently, and with a slow rolling motion each minute growing steadier.
— from King o' the Beach: A Tropic Tale by George Manville Fenn