At this time in our story, the whole St. Clare establishment is, for the time being, removed to their villa on Lake Pontchartrain.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Le tailleur considéra ce rêve comme un avertissement de sa conscience, et il fit vœu, s'il guérissait , de remplir mieux son devoir.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

That meant the nearness of war; the revolt of slaves; confusion ending in fire and flame through which she was borne safely in the strong arms of Pelagie, and carried to the log cabin which was still their home.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The necessary steps were taken; the Vicar saw the agreement, and took the lady's confession; she confessed everything in full, and he ordered her into the custody of a very worthy alguacil of the court."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A similar covenant exists in fact between all the citizens of a democracy: they all feel themselves subject to the same weakness and the same dangers; and their interest, as well as their sympathy, makes it a rule with them to lend each other mutual assistance when required.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It would be some comfort even if Flambeau came back from his fishing, for Flambeau, physically speaking, was worth four other men.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Some dug the trenches with their spades, some carried earth in flax baskets, and others piles of flax and fern, with which they built up the parapets.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

She could endure immense fatigue without yielding to it.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

The Alaskan salmon, from which the bulk of American canned salmon comes, exists in five species.
— from The Fishing Industry by William E. (William Edward) Gibbs

“I’m comin’, ma’am,” said he, with a sigh, as, opening the parlor-door, he turned upon me one look of such import that only the circumstances of my story can explain its force, or my reader’s own ingenious imagination can supply.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

The next night, as he passed in the full light of the post-trader's windows, a shot came from among the dark shadows of the corral, and when he immediately sought safety in numbers among the Indians, cowboys, and troopers in the exchange, he was in time to see Cahill enter it from the other store, wrapping up a bottle of pain-killer for Mrs. Stickney's cook.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

But let us summon questions more accessible to our comprehension, with which the mind is more at ease, and upon which science can exercise its functions.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

The term has been discarded from modern chemical nomenclature, but is still commonly employed in familiar language and trade.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Lady Ascot had no time to make the slightest change, either in feature or position, before Adelaide, dressed for the evening in a cloud of white and [Pg 281] pink, with her bare arms loaded with bracelets, a swansdown fan hanging from her left wrist, sailed swiftly into the room, with outstretched hands, bore down on Lady Ascot, and began kissing her, as though the old lady were a fruit of some sort, and she were a dove pecking at it.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

Next cut out a piece of wood 4 inches by 2 inches (a piece of cigar-box will do for this, or a piece of stout cardboard)— E in Figs. 242 and 243.
— from Toy-Making in School and Home by M. I. R. (Mabel Irene Rutherford) Polkinghorne