She had on a robe of peach-red flowered satin, a short pelisse of slate-blue stiff silk, lined with squirrel, and a jupe of deep red foreign crepe, lined with ermine.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

However, in the year 1770, a certain young soldier, Dumouriez by name, returning from Corsica, could see 'with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a magnificent phaeton, doing homage the—Dubarry.' ( La Vie et les Memoires du General Dumouriez ( Paris, 1822 ), i. 141. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The angle of nearly ninety degrees formed by the portion of the Rhine from Constance to Basel, and thence to Kehl, gave General Moreau one base parallel and another perpendicular to that of his antagonist.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Having braved the dangers of Darkness Lane, and thus having a little stock of reputation for courage to fall back upon; and also, I daresay, desirous of proving ourselves superior to men ( videlicet Mr Hoggins) in the article of candour, we p. 156 began to relate our individual fears, and the private precautions we each of us took.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Gallina , 5. ruspatur fimetum , & colligit grana: sicut & Columbæ , 6, (quæ educantur in Columbario , 7.) & Gallopavus , 8.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Mechanics, physics, and chemistry teach the rules and laws according to which the forces of impenetrability, gravitation, rigidity, fluidity, cohesion, elasticity, heat, light, affinity, magnetism, electricity, &c., operate; that is to say, the law, the rule which these forces observe whenever they enter time and space.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Clare's mind flew to the impassioned, summer-steeped heathens in the Var Vale, their rosy faces court-patched with cow-droppings; and to one the most impassioned of them all.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Sweet lady, you have given me life and living; For here I read for certain that my ships Are safely come to road.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I see no present reason for changing your plan.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Watson, Probyn, and Younghusband, with their three squadrons, cleared our right flank, capturing two guns and some standards; and Hugh Gough, with his squadron, performed a similar duty on the left.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

At that hour, however, Ned requested that sail might be shortened and the ship allowed to go along under easy canvas during the night, urging the experience of the morning as a reason for caution whilst navigating that comparatively unknown sea.
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood

She had brought herself into the unpleasant position of being called on to say what she really felt, yet what she knew there were strong reasons for concealing.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Being the only station within a radius of fifty miles, trade was good, and neither merchants nor agent had reason for complaint on the score of value or bulk of the cargoes of native produce picked up by the firm’s trading steamer on its quarterly round.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909 by Various

We see no reason for cultivating more than ten or twelve varieties; and, as the above are productive and excellent, including all desirable colors and qualities, and ripening through the whole cherry season, we know not what more would be profitable to the cultivator.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

across, rather fleshy, convex then plane, becoming umbilicate and depressed, sometimes wavy, smooth and even.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

For this bill is the work of men who are Reformers from conscientious conviction, of men, some of whom were Reformers when Reformer was a name of reproach, of men, all of whom were Reformers before the nation had begun to demand Reform in imperative and menacing tones.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

And so,” he concluded with an opening of the hands, palms upward, as if to show that nothing remained for concealment, “and so I have watched you.”
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

All them himps dancin' round, and real fire comin' out of the pot—which I 'ope it's quite safe—and there's a beautiful fairy just come on, dressed so grand, too!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 by Various