There upon the highest terrace stood a palace of ice, its slender minarets, its high-lifted towers, its rounded turrets, its spacious platform, and its broad flights of steps all glittering in the sunlight as if gem-studded and jewel-set.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

It is then strained and given in doses of 4–5 glassfuls a day, at the same time with refreshing and emollient drinks, and prolonged tepid baths.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

For advanced students, and as a study of language, a few selections as given in Manly's English Poetry and in Manly's English Prose; or selections from the Ormulum, Brut, Ancren Riwle, and King Horn, etc., in Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

She did so, and gave it me back, asking me if I advised her to accept Petri’s offer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Charles looked at his father for permission, who said abstractedly, “Give it her.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

It seemed to her that it was not Ivan Ivanitch that was screaming but someone else, and for some reason the sow again grunted in her sty.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

.—Damask, or gobelin stitches, are given in figs.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

6 ἐν ἀληθείᾳ. See also Gal. ii. 5, 14, where a similar contrast is implied in the use of ἡ ἀληθεία τοῦ εὐαγγελίου.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man up like a bladder.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Words formed with diminutive, augmentative, or depreciative suffixes are given in the vocabulary of this book with appropriate definitions; but in general dictionaries they are not individually given, because of the inordinate bulk which a list of them all would have.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Not a sign of human habitation presented itself; only wild Nature, sublime and grand in the extreme, surrounded us.
— from The Norwegian Fjords by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper

She allowed no one to drink zu in her house, and if she drank zu she always got ill and it was “thianglo” for her to perform sacrifice.
— from The Lushei Kuki Clans by John Shakespear

The story spread, and gained intensity with each repetition.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

An abundance of wild-fowl were shot here, so that the Christmas fare consisted of roast and boiled geese, goose pie, goose stew, and goose in every form which could be thought of, accompanied, in the cabin, by some Madeira, the only article of their provisions which had improved by keeping.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

And in the case of some names, such as Gertrud , in which the second part is a word that could only be given to a woman, as no vowel-ending was required, so none was given.
— from Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson

A good audience braved the storm, and gave interested attention to our message.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878 by Various

"I don't see anything great in doing what one must," she said rather sadly.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

To be sure, a 'gentlewoman in an oil-shop' in Bishopsgate declared that she had heard a 'young voice scream out of a coach' on the night of January 1; but as she 'did not know whether it was a man's or a woman's voice,' her information was not of much use.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

A woman of fortune, being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion."
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson