By little and little she contracted a fondness for rustic employments, wished to make the most of her land, and had in that particular a knowledge which she practised with pleasure.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is a simple branching some what defuse stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric and of a dark brown, while the colateral branches are green smooth, squar, and put forth a number of alternate branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We make them also by art greater much than their nature; and their fruit greater and sweeter and of differing taste, smell, colour, and figure, from their nature.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Whilst the 1 st violin and 1 st 'cello are fairly frequently used in this manner, the solo viola is seldom found, and a solo on the double bass is practically unknown.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The grass grows pale; the trees, with their foliage, are burnt up; and the dry standing corn affords fuel for its own destruction.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

It is believed, however, that the topographic and climatic conditions in southern California are favorable for its cultivation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Round and round take up the chorus, And in raptures let us sing— Chorus A fig for those by law protected!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

In the waiting-room in which on this occasion he received Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch (who had been at other times privileged as a relation to wander all over the house unchecked), Alyosha Telyatnikov, a clerk of refined manners, who was also a member of the governor’s household, was sitting in a corner opening envelopes at a table, and in the next room, at the window nearest to the door, a stout and sturdy colonel, a former friend and colleague of the governor, was sitting alone reading the Golos, paying no attention, of course, to what was taking place in the waiting-room; in fact, he had his back turned.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the middle of the same century a fancy for Gothic architecture revived, and many brick buildings were built with pointed arches, doorways, and windows, with turrets and pinnacles, all covered with plaster-work and cement, imitating Gothic mouldings and carvings; but it was only sham Gothic, and not at all satisfactory.
— from Our English Towns and Villages by H. R. Wilton Hall

164 B. C. The Jews, upon the 15th Sivan, celebrate a feast for the victory of Judas Maccabæus over the people of Bethsan, or Scythopolis.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Four out of the six councilors are frequently females.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

The Palais du Danse is incomparably the most beautiful ballroom in the world—so people who have been all over the world agree—and it is spotlessly clean and free from brackish smells, which is more than can be said of any French establishment of similar character I have seen.
— from Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

'Twere best, if he had had "a money-box," To have waited there till the sheep cleared a field For what a half-week's flint-picking would yield.
— from Last Poems by Edward Thomas

I fear such cases are far from uncom
— from Pictures of Canadian Life: A Record of Actual Experiences by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

It must be habit, or bashfulness, or the effect of some childish and forgotten fright.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend