Scheherazade, at this point, seeing that it was day, and knowing that the Sultan always rose very early to attend the council, stopped speaking.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Seneca also remarks, “Ventus est aër fluens;” Nat.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The shops are really very entertaining, especially the mercers; there seem to be six or seven men belonging to each shop; and every one took care by bowing and smirking, to be noticed.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I went nearly every morning to her house: she always rose very early, dressed herself at once, so that she was never seen at her toilette.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

He had an elder brother and a younger sister, and page 67 these three babies were left stranded at Richmond, Virginia, entirely without money.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Villa Ludovisi has been all winter the residence of the lady familiarly known in Roman society as “Rosina,” Victor Emmanuel’s morganatic wife, the only familiarity it would seem, that she allows, for the grounds were rigidly closed, to the inconsolable regret of old Roman sojourners.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

But to one coming from the East, Galata and Pera seem a rather vulgarized European town.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

Now I sat down all at once to a carnival of vegetables,—ripe, juicy tomatoes, raw or cooked; cucumbers in brittle slices; rich, yellow sweet potatoes; broad Lima-beans, and beans of other and various names; tempting ears of Indian corn steaming in enormous piles, and great smoking tureens of the savory succotash, an Indian gift to the table for which civilization need not blush; sliced egg-plant in delicate fritters; and marrow squashes, of creamy pulp and sweetness: a rich variety, embarrassing to the appetite, and perplexing to the choice.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

After the removal of the skin, all root vegetables (except those of the onion kind) should be put in cold water till wanted.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil