‘He sends his compliments,’ and she'll ask you, ‘What about the money?’ You might still have said to her, ‘He's a degraded sensualist, and a low creature, with uncontrolled passions.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So it was that presently to the European watchers star and sun rose close upon each other, drove headlong for a space and then slower, and at last came to rest, star and sun merged into one glare of flame at the zenith of the sky.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But Sara seemed to be telling a real story about a lovely country where real people were.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Side above, a large Creek opposit qk Sand River on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The bottom now rose sensibly, and we soon arrived at long circuitous slopes, or inclined planes, which took us higher by degrees; but we were obliged to walk carefully among these conglomerates, bound by no cement, the feet slipping on the glassy crystal, felspar, and quartz.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The blood of many of its members was shed on the scaffold, and this circumstance must ever remain a reproach to the judges and to those who executed their cruel sentences, and a lasting crown of glory to the martyrs themselves.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

corralón , m. ( Sp. A. ), a large corral; timber-yard.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Whenever then, being light and counterfeit and false, he is put to the test at close quarters with a true and solid and cast-iron friendship, he cannot stand the test but is detected at once, and imitates the conduct of the painter that painted some wretched cocks, for he ordered his lad to scare away all live cocks as far from his picture as possible.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

We were traveling at the time and stopped at a little city in India and looked on while a juggler did his tricks before a group of natives.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

she asked, a little coldly, for she knew.
— from The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington

Grandmother was tall and straight, dressed in a plain, dark gown, black silk apron and lace cap; her hair, coal black, slightly gray on the temples; her eyes dark, soft and gentle.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

WHEREAS, Captain Peter Solgard, Commander of his Majesty’s Ship the Greyhound, ( the present Station Ship of this Province ,) in his Cruize, having Intelligence of two Pyrate Sloops of considerable Force in Consortship, under the Command of one Low, a notorious Pyrate, that had for upward of two Years, committed many Depredations, Murders and Barbarities, upon many of his Majesty’s Subjects and Allies, lately come upon this Coast, hath, with great Diligence, and utmost Application, pursued, overtaken, and after a stubborn Resistance, vanquished and overcome both of them, taking one, and driving the other from our Coast; which Action, as it is glorious in it self, so it is glorious in the publick Benefits and Advantages that flow from it , ( to wit )
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

She was such an artless little creature; and was in such a sunny, beaming, hopeful state; and let out all this matter clinging close about her heart, so freely; that all the other lady passengers entered into the spirit of it as much as she; and the captain (who heard all about it from his wife) was wondrous sly, I promise you: inquiring, every time we met at table, as in forgetfulness, whether she expected anybody to meet her at St. Louis, and whether she would want to go ashore the night we reached it (but he supposed she wouldn’t), and cutting many other dry jokes of that nature.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I cannot bear to think of him having two or three olives for supper and a little cold water, and then being cross to his daughters.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

[Pg 27] This gradually subsides, and a linear cicatrix remains, which causes the patient no inconvenience....
— from The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality by Herbert Snow

Here he strolled about a little, chatting briefly with one or two friends, but with his mind altogether on the problem which faced Barry Lawrence.
— from The Riddle and the Ring; or, Won by Nerve by Gordon MacLaren

This unexpected solution of the dilemma filled them with surprise; and a loud clamour of voices echoed through the house.
— from Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea

In one star at least of this group Professor Campbell, of the Lick Observatory, has seen the F line as a long line extending a very appreciable distance on each side of the continuous spectrum, and with an open slit it was seen as a large circular disc about six seconds in diameter; two other principal hydrogen lines showed the same appearance.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

The place is still out of the world, but will not long be so, as a London company has bought the cliffs, and is blasting a road in them to make promenade, hotel, and bring the world and the twentieth century to Looe and rumple up the old place.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould