I shall go about, and see condors, and lions, and elephants, and wear a sword—at least, a dirk—while you are learning Latin and Greek at Uncle John’s!”
— from The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The “art” illustrating that “literature” represents in vivid and shining colours a large and enraged black bull stamping upon a yellow snake writhing in emerald-green grass, with a cobalt-blue sky for a background.
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

They sipped the steaming coffee and looked at each other.
— from Mate in Two Moves by Winston K. Marks

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— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

Another sadly crippled old woman, the widow of a sea captain, although living almost exclusively upon malted milk tablets as affording a cheap form of prepared food, was always eager to talk of the beautiful illuminated manuscripts she had sought out in her travels and to show specimens of her own work as an illuminator.
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

She seemed cheerful and lively and every one felt at his ease with her.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wife sitting half-frantic in the Castle of Ahlden, waxing more and more into a gray-haired Megaera (with whom Sophie Dorothee under seven seals of secrecy corresponds a little, and even the Prince of Wales is suspected of wishing to correspond); a foolish disobedient Prince of Wales; Jacobite Pretender people with their Mar Rebellions, with their Alberoni combinations; an English Parliament jangling and debating unmelodiously, whose very language is a mystery to us, nothing but Walpole in dog-latin to help us through it: truly it is not a Heaven-on-Earth altogether, much as Mother Sophie and her foolish favorite, our disobedient Prince of Wales, might long for it!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle

There are many such cases among liquids, and everybody knows, for instance, that spirit (absolute alcohol) can be mixed in any proportion with water.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

At Daphnae Mr. Flinders Petrie found a set of little slabs of different stones and small plates of metal, gold, silver, copper, and lead, all engraved with the name of Psamtik.
— from Leadwork, Old and Ornamental and for the most part English by W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby