F.S.A. Return Emblematic print of the South-Sea Scheme.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Then he holds his candle before a richly engraved picture of the Saviour, done on a messy slab of gold, and wonderfully rayed and starred with diamonds, which hangs above the hole within the altar, and his solemnity changes to lively admiration.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But to Pierre he always remained what he had seemed that first night: an unfathomable, rounded, eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thus we approve and ratify every point of the said agreement, promising on faith and word of a king to guard and accomplish it as entirely as if we had consented to it from the beginning."
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

At night, when you are about to retire, rub every part of the skin till it is as red as a boiled lobster.
— from Our Girls by Dio Lewis

Have bread-crumbs on it, roll each part of the shape you wish, either round, like a small sausage, or flat, or of a chop-shape.
— from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food by Pierre Blot

If the roof is just high enough from the floor for goats to go under, it can be open all round except perhaps on the side where the prevailing wind and storms would beat in.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

One evening he was serenaded by the Philharmonic Society under the leadership of Carl Bergman, the recently elected president of the society.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

He next rode with me round every part of the station, and the more he saw the more he was pleased with the character and capabilities of the run.
— from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson

They soon found their account in baling: a spare pump had been put down the fore-hatchway, and a pump shifted to the fish-room; but the motion of the ship had washed the coals so small, that they had reached every part of the ship, and these pumps were soon choked.
— from The Rival Crusoes; Or, The Ship Wreck Also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

[*By the census of 1881 the resident European population of the Settlement of Malacca consists of 23 males and 9 females, a "grand" total of 32!
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Pictures of his buildings got into the real estate pages of the Sunday papers.
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

This is obviously the prototype of the Roman fasces , and indeed Silius Italicus, a Roman epic poet of the Silver Age, assigns the origin of the fasces to Vetulonia.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick