On the regulation plot of grass stood a basin of Roman cement, containing goldfish and a stream of water the size of that which comes from a syringe, which occasionally made microscopic rainbows at which the guests marvelled.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He even saw the lighted dryness of the loft behind, and shadows and bunches of roosting fowls, up in the night, strange shadows cast from the lantern on the floor.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It is easy to foretell the result of this inquiry; he was committed to Bonner's coal-house, where he joined company with a zealous minister of Essex, who had been induced to sign a bill of recantation; but afterward, stung by his conscience, he asked the bishop to let him see the instrument again, when he tore it to pieces; which induced Bonner in a fury to strike him repeatedly, and tear away part of his beard.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Such enactment, of Two-thirds to be re-elected, we append to our Constitution; we submit our Constitution to the Townships of France, and say, Accept both, or reject both.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I shall add but one reflection more; suppose an inhabitant of some distant country should endeavour to form an idea of European morals from the state of the sciences, the perfection of the arts, the propriety of our public entertainments, the politeness of our behaviour, the affability of our conversation, our constant professions of benevolence, and from those tumultuous assemblies of people of all ranks, who seem, from morning till night, to have no other care than to oblige one another.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The picture they gave of the state of the country was, in most respects, confirmatory of what has already been described as his own view of it;—incapacity and selfishness at the head of affairs, disorganisation throughout the whole body politic, but still, with all this, the heart of the nation sound, and bent on resistance.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

[32] Dr. Reuther gives a detailed photograph ( Ocheïdir , Fig. 50), showing a band of rhomboids round the window frame.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Santons , a body of religionists, also called Abdals , who pretended to be inspired with the most enthusiastic raptures of divine love.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Didst never hear of the shield of faith, and helmet of salvation, and breastplate of righteousness?
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Ovid's story of her life protracted to one thousand years may be intended to represent the various Sibyls as being only reappearances of one and the same individual.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

And Our Will and Pleasure is, That Our Solicitor do cause printed Copies hereof to be sent to the Sheriffs of the several Shires, Stewarts of Stewarties, and Bailiffs of Regalities, and their Clerks, whom We ordain to see the same published: And We appoint them to send Doubles hereof to the several Paroch Kirks within their Bounds, that upon the Lord's Day immediately preceding the Day abovementioned, the same may be published and read from the Pulpits, immediately after Divine Service.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign

This was a noted inn, bearing as its sign a badge of Richard II, derived from his mother Joan of Kent.
— from Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield