Her family being so large that the income of more than nine thousand francs, pension and rentals, was insufficient, she continued, under Louis Philippe, to give lessons in harmony to Mesdemoiselles La Grave, as in the Restoration, with the strictness observed in her every-day life.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The theory is that the opposite shades cause unbalanced light preasure, so that the vanes go around and around.
— from Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 by Ray Bradbury

The seeds of biennials seldom produce flowers the first summer, but several—and among them the myosotis,—after being grown a few years in the same spot, come up like perennials, on account of sowing themselves.
— from Gardening for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

There were weeks—one may confess it now that they have so abundantly proved the contrary—when the French seemed crumpling up like pasteboard.
— from Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Scuta trilobed, flat, within slightly concave, upper lobe [Pg 152] rather more acuminated than the lower; lateral lobe triangular in outline, twice as wide as either the upper or lower lobes; lying in the same plane with them and standing out at almost exactly right angle.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Ruth ran to her father and clung to his knee heavily; he stroked her shock of brown hair and said: "Cheer up, little Piggy-widden"—which was his pet name for her, partly because she was the youngest and smallest of the family, partly because she was so fat, and in Cornwall the "piggy-widden" is the name for the smallest of the litter.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Strolling from place to place, mingling with the gay groups, in the more secluded alcoves and recesses where couples appeared, oblivious to eyes, in the check room where a sign read: "check your corsets," out in the wide landing where the stairway came up, Lane passed, missing little that might have been seen or heard.
— from The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey

Next day, at noon, the council of four sat in solemn conclave upon Lord Pit Town's latest purchase.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills