Softly and silently fell the snow.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Whole families of the Rostóvs’ and Bolkónskis’ relations sometimes came to Bald Hills with sixteen horses and dozens of servants and stayed for months.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As soon as she found her Ladyship alone, Rebecca attacked her on the nursery question at once and said that her own little boy was saved, actually saved, by calomel, freely administered, when all the physicians in Paris had given the dear child up.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Now, every sentiment, every impulse which becomes formulated with, as it were, a fiat , acquires by this alone a new and quasi-creative force; it is not merely rendered visible by its own light to itself but it is defined, specified, and selected from the rest, and ipso facto directed in its course.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

según , according to, as. seguro, -a , secure, free from danger, easy, assumed, confident; firm; estar —— de , to be sure of, to depend upon a thing; m. , insurance; póliza de —— , insurance policy; —— sobre la vida , life insurance; —— contra incendios , fire insurance; —— contra accidentes , accident insurance.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A human soul who has once got into that primal element of Song , and sung forth fitly somewhat therefrom, has worked in the depths of our existence; feeding through long times the life-roots of all excellent human things whatsoever,—in a way that "utilities" will not succeed well in calculating!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

After a struggle of many years, after a long series of the usual alternatives of small successes and small failures, after a few cleverish speeches and a good many cleverish pamphlets, with a considerable reputation, indeed, for pasquinades, most of which he never wrote, and articles in reviews to which it was whispered he had contributed, Rigby, who had already intrigued himself into a subordinate office, met with Lord Monmouth.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The natives, in addition to fruits, offered fowls, pigeons, fishing instruments, working implements, stuffs, and shells, for which they asked nails and earrings.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

The seamed and scarred face, the closed eyes—one perfectly sightless, the other well-nigh so—the burnt and withered hair growing in long, ragged patches only, the awkward gait and downcast look; all were like daggers in Dame Katharine's heart; and 'she rebuked her greatly, seeing that she was too loathly for any gentleman who was equal to her in birth.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Various

Upon entering the Tropical Saloon, we found a most welcome and delightful change of temperature among those gigantic leaves of banyan-trees, and the broad expanse of water-plants, floating on lakes, and spacious aviaries, where birds of brilliant plumage sported and sang amid such foliage as they knew at home.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In any case she was determined to try her influence on a man so singular and so famous.
— from Kings-at-Arms by Marjorie Bowen

but, if a more sheltered place is required, such may be found at the south-east corner of the bottom of the bay in six and seven fathoms, mud.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

But it was not the splendour of the spectacle which gratified the people; it was the assurance of safety and security from further disturbance, for which all were thankful.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 3 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

Under the twinkling shadows of a German vineyard, national songs are sung; from the steep places of the Swiss mountains the Alp-horn resounds; in the coffee-house at Cairo, listeners hang upon the voice of the romance reciter; the churches of Italy echo with solemn hymns; and the soft tones of the child are heard, in the New England parlour, as the young scholar reads the Bible to parent or aged grandfather.
— from How to Observe: Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau