Two small well-springs, September, Departmental Guard, or rather at bottom they are but one and the same small well-spring; which will swell and widen into waters of bitterness; all manner of subsidiary streams and brooks of bitterness flowing in, from this side and that; till it become a wide river of bitterness, of rage and separation,—which can subside only into the Catacombs.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Since she has attained years of maturity, she has read other books of romantic tendency and of late she had read with great interest a book she got through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, Lewes’ Physiology—do you know it?—and even recounted extracts from it to us: and that’s the whole of her education.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Masculine are: bōlētus , mushroom , carduus , thistle , dūmī , plural, brambles , intibus , endive , iuncus , rush , oleaster , bastard olive , rubus , bramble , rumex , sorrel , scirpus , bulrush , and rarely fīcus , fig .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The side lancets are not so satisfactorily filled, for the combination of strips of later glass separated by equally wide ones of old grisaille, and all surrounded by a rich old border on ruby and blue backgrounds, is not pleasing.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

Indeed, aphides form almost the sole food of the entire lady-bird tribe in their earlier stages of existence; and there is no better way of getting rid of blight on roses and other garden plants than to bring in a good boxful of these active and voracious little grubs from the fields and hedges.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

Our plan of hugging the coast, yet not so close as to risk our bottom on rocks or shoals, kept us far away from the track of sea-going vessels, and the weather being exceedingly fair, we accomplished fifteen or twenty leagues a day without danger from the elements or man.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

"Crazy to hear!" was the characteristic reply of Bluff, otherwise Richard Masters, son of Centerville's greatest lawyer.
— from The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; Or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists by Quincy Allen

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— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

He has told them already that they are in his heart to die together and to live together (vi. 11); and when this is so, there is no place for recrimination or bandying of reproaches.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

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— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

He does not take advantage of his proximity to Compiègne to go ring the familiar door-bell, because he is a soldier and respects orders; but, on returning from his rounds, he does not hesitate to turn aside a bit in order to pass over his home, indulging up there in the sky in all sorts of acrobatic caprioles to attract attention and prolong the interview.
— from Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air by Henry Bordeaux

Passing from Glyndyfrdwy down the river, it successively assumes the appearance of the brawling brook over beds of pebbles; the deep tranquil character of the gliding lake, reflecting on its pure bosom the woods and mountains that surround it; the rushing cascade p. 138 or rapids, over beds of rocks, or through chasms of stone.
— from Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson