She did, indeed, take sufficient interest in herself to throw up her veil on this return journey, as if to let the world see that she could at least exhibit a face such as Mercy Chant could not show.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

DUKE OF SUFFOLK, DUKE OF NORFOLK, SURREY, LORD CHAMBERLAIN, GARDINER, seat themselves in order on each side; CROMWELL at lower end, as secretary.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Would you,” he said hesitantly, “for a raise of wa—ahem —-salary, come a little earlier and get me my breakfast?” “I'll not wait on table,” she returned with a flash of color.
— from Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Samuel Cochran, a longtime employee at Charlestown, recalled later in life that when he arrived at the yard as a young man during the Civil War “the majority of the men employed were ship carpenters and joiners and most of the tools they used were cross cut saws and axes.”
— from Charlestown Navy Yard: Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts by United States. National Park Service

His beauty is compared to that of Apollo, and like him, he is represented with fine hair, flowing loosely down his shoulders; the roundness of his limbs and visage, evidence the generous life he leads; while his smiling countenance and laughing eye, are meant to indicate the merry thoughts that are inspired by the juice of the grape.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

Chalk ( Plate 60 ) is a soft fine-grained limestone, formed in the ocean by the accumulation of myriads of the tiny shells of Foramenifera, which are single celled animals, living either a floating life near the surface of the sea, or a creeping life on the bottom.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis

That night my Indians and I lay within rifle-shot of the Mohawk River; and at dawn we made a crow-flight of it toward Oneida Lake; and found not a trace of Sir John or of anybody in that trackless wilderness; and so camped at last, exhausted and discouraged.
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Throughout this stretch of river, the only work to be done is dredging in mud and gravel, and some rock excavation under water to an average depth of four feet along a distance of 24 miles, below Fort San Carlos, and light excavation above water on some points in the lower river in order to flatten the bends.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

“What then?” she cried at last, eyes aflash through lingering tears.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

But, while a few of them are so caused, at least eight, and probably nine, out of ten are due to germs caught from somebody else.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson