He had never heard of such books before I mentioned them, but he is determined to get them now as soon as ever he can.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Besides, he was very good-looking, of medium stature, but beautifully proportioned, dark, with fine colouring, always perfectly healthy.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I Could make assignable, — and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

It will scarce be believed that a doom like that which might have passed the lips of some eastern despot, in all the frantic madness of arbitrary power and utter ignorance, could have been seriously pronounced, and as seriously enforced, in one of the most civilized nations in Europe; and that to the present enlightened age, men who pretended to wisdom and philosophy, should have considered the labours of the architect as a proper subject of punishment.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Now I am in the garden at the back, beyond the yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are—a very preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Clifford (August 5th, 1666) to be communicated to Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, we read: “to tell them that the complaint of Sir Jeremy Smith’s misbehaviour in the late engagement being so universal, unless he have fully satisfied the generals he should be brought to trial by court-martial, and there purged or condemned.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is not my affair and I——" she began, but Converse, obtuse and rejoicing in Jud's discomfiture, interrupted.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

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— from Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Root vegetables should be boiled with the lid of the pan on, green vegetables should be boiled with the lid of the pan off, for the preservation of the color.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

Jack learned that a Catholic could only obtain dispensation for a mixed marriage, if the non-Catholic undertook that all the children of the marriage should be brought up in the Catholic faith.
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna

There were six bridges built across the Chickahominy, which required labor day and night.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin

By thrusting this into the snow he can tell whether the layers deposited by successive winds are separated by bands of soft snow, which would cause the blocks to break.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

When day broke, Hull found himself fairly surrounded by British frigates.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

v. passim , 214 , 230 , 233 , 234 , 238 , 298 sq. Sense and Sensibility , 197 Sentimental Journey, A , 127 - 132 Seven Wise Masters, The , 22 Sewell, Miss, 260 , 261 Shabby Genteel Story, A , 231 Shadow of the Cross, The , 259 Shadwell, Charles, 117 Shebbeare, 139 , 140 Shelley, 227 , 224 Sheridan, Frances, 143 Sherwood, Mrs., 259 Shirley , 255 Shortest Way with the Dissenters , 70 Simple Story, A , 170 Sir Amadas , 23 Sir Charles Grandison , 94 - 95 Sir Eglamour , 23 Sir Eger, Sir Grame, and Sir Graysteel , 23 Sir John Chiverton , 208 Sir Isumhras , 23 Sir Lancelot Greaves , 117 , 121 , 122 Sir Launfal , 23 Sir Orfeo , 23 Sir Triamond , 23 Sketches by Boz , 225 Smart, Capt. H., 258 Smedley, Frank, 257 Smith, Charlotte, 174 Smith, Horace, 214 Smollett, 78 , 79 , 81 , 115 - 126 , 190 , 225 , 226 , 234 Socrates, 2 Spiritual Quixote, The , 139 , 143 , 144 Squire of Low Degree, The , 23 Staël, Mme.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury