SLOPS, chests or packages of tea; “he shook a slum of SLOPS ,” i.e. , stole a chest of tea.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Rhyme, that exquisite echo which in the Muse’s hollow hill creates and answers its own voice; rhyme, which in the hands of the real artist becomes not merely a material element of metrical beauty, but a spiritual element of thought and passion also, waking a new mood, it may be, or stirring a fresh train of ideas, or opening by mere sweetness and suggestion of sound some golden door at which the Imagination itself had knocked in vain; rhyme, which can turn man’s utterance to the speech of gods; rhyme, the one chord we have added to the Greek lyre, became in Robert Browning’s hands a grotesque, misshapen thing, which at times made him masquerade in poetry as a low comedian, and ride Pegasus too often with his tongue in his cheek.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

“You will find I am not so stiff as several others,” said Winterbourne, smiling.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

In fact, however deep-rooted and sacred a stock of sentiments you might hold, you would never, of your own accord, give them utterance."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Malm states that the newly-hatched young of perches, salmon, and several other symmetrical fishes, have the habit of occasionally resting on one side at the bottom; and he has observed that they often then strain their lower eyes so as to look upward; and their skulls are thus rendered rather crooked.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Taken as such a step or stage, its existence is proof of its complete rationality, for it is an integral element in the total, which is Reason.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Whilst we were singing, a shower of stones was thrown, but no one received any injury.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Annie made her sing, and some one said she had a remarkably fine voice; Major Lincoln asked who "the fresh little girl, with 109 the beautiful eyes," was; and Mr. Moffat insisted on dancing with her, because she "didn't dawdle, but had some spring in her," as he gracefully expressed it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

He wore a black cutaway jacket and tight black trousers with shiny black leather shoes; and a white stock, a strip of silk, wound around his throat.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

He no longer gratuitously advertised Mordecai Schwartz in envious emulation, for he had several establishments, and owned five two-story houses, and was treasurer of his little synagogue, and spoke of Socialists as an [158] inferior variety of Atheists.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

After begging some grub from the white men the two Injuns made themselves very agreeable an' friendly, an' by and by a few more of the Kiowas dropped along an' was allowed to come [Pg 162] into the camp; for I s'pose they seemed so friendly that the white men thought it wouldn't look neighborly to show any suspicion of such good Injuns.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

He had a dislike of the word "restoration," as applied to ancient edifices which were, and still are, so often spoiled in the process; but he expended much time and care, and not inconsiderable sums of money, in putting the different portions of the venerable buildings—choir, chapter-house, dormitory, and calefactory—into such repair as was possible.
— from John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir by Hunter Blair, David Oswald, Sir

Whenever he had a mistress, he let her know it, and showed a sort of savage surprise that she did not approve of his indulging in pleasures which, as he would demonstrate, so to speak, mathematically, were both allowable and necessary for him.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

As I rode cautiously along, my horse started at sight of something lying in the road.
— from Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John Ludwig Hülshof

If we allow ourselves to live so hard in the week, to be so late on Saturday, that we are sleepy and stupid on Sunday morning, then we are not keeping the Fourth Commandment, even if we force ourselves to go to Church; we are not serving God with a fair share of our mind and strength.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

Hear the yarn of a sailor, An old yarn learned at sea. {7} SING A SONG O’ SHIPWRECK He lolled on a bollard, a sun-burned son of the sea, With ear-rings of brass and a jumper of dungaree, ‘ ’N’ many a queer lash-up have I seen,’ says he.
— from Salt-Water Ballads by John Masefield

Of those who venture in the contest some achieve success; others strive feebly and fail ignobly.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

[Pg 124] by combining one part by weight of arsenic, one of sugar, and six of sweetened bran, with enough water added to make a mash.
— from Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by W. W. (William Warner) Tracy