Ciudades que son al mismo tiempo aldeas, pueblos, haciendas, jardines, todo a la vez, y participan en ciertas ocasiones del bullicio y de la animación de las ciudades grandes, otras de la apacible quietud del pueblo pequeño, y siempre del aroma y de la belleza de los jardines.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Why did you come up in such a manner to attack such weak spirits?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And then at the moment of taking leave he treated me to a ghastly muddle of dubious stammers and movements, to an awful display of hesitations.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The law he boasts to keep allows No king to touch another's spouse, And, more than all, a prince's dame High honour and respect may claim.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

At such a moment, the arrival of her friend was a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth, though in the course of their meetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought, when she saw Mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her husband.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The brow was smooth and clear; the eyebrows were distinct, but soft, and melting to a mere trace at the temples; the eyes were a rich gift of nature—fine and full, large, deep, seeming to hold dominion over the slighter subordinate features—capable, probably, of much significance at another hour and under other circumstances than the present, but now languid and suffering.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Henry himself met me, and as soon as my trunk and basket could be routed out from all the other trunks and baskets in the world, we were on our way to Hans Place in the luxury of a nice, large, cool, dirty hackney coach.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

More simple and massive than are usually the men of whom the terms are predicated.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Much entertainment may be derived from concealing the chain that communicates with that which proceeds from the outside of the battery, under a carpet, and placing the wire that communicates with the chain from the inside, in such a manner that a person may put his hand on it without suspicion, at the same time that his feet are upon the other wire.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

I catch its soft and mellow tones Amid the long grass gliding, Now broken 'gainst the rugged stones, In hoarse, deep accents chiding.
— from Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Susanna Moodie

Truly, those of the cloth do not love me overmuch, and when it comes to doing as I desire in such a matter, they are as like as not to prove stiff-necked.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

This might next morning be reported as "going over" the sums as many times as Miss Brown liked.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

So Lodovico, in his Preaching of St. John the Baptist, at the church of the Certosini (where Crespi is especially opposed to Paul Veronese), has exhibited the audience of the saint in such a manner that a judge described them by these names:—the Raffaellesque, the Tizianesque, and the imitator of Tintoretto.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

Mrs. Carpenter had been to a neighbouring grocery and bought a ham and bread; eggs were so dear that they scared her; she had cooked a slice and made tea, and Rotha declared that it tasted good.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

If the rings obeyed different forces, they would not remain in the same plane, but the powerful attraction of Saturn always maintains them and his satellites in the plane of his equator.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

The stranger assisted me to a bench, offered me her arm, and when she saw me a little recovered, she continued, "Yes, madam, a conspiracy is afoot against yourself and Louis XV.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

Then came a lucky plunge—a splashing bucket shop plunge, it was—in war stocks; and Mr Tams and every one else in Mrs Tams’s boarding house got rich.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various