If she goes to the dining-room, she usually takes a book because hotel service seems endless to one used to meals at home and nothing is duller than to sit long alone with nothing to do but look at the tablecloth, which is scarcely diverting, or at other people, which is impolite.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Baskets of flowers in all their splendor exhaled their odors upon the table, and the wine danced about between the dishes and the flowers, shook its golden wings, and formed many varied pictures between the guests and the world.
— from Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Novalis

He had correctly described his own feelings towards them when he said, either truly or untruly, that they had deprived him of that which would have made his whole life prosperous instead of the reverse.
— from Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope

Some Scottish settlers endeavored to open up the country.
— from Summer Provinces by the Sea A description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government Railways by Prince Edward Island Railway

The men of Shropshire and Westmoreland also, who, as it appears, had successfully evaded their obligations under the decennary system, now took it upon themselves to ignore the provisions of the Statute of Winchester; with the result that some fifteen years later, on it being brought to his notice that the regulations which he had laid down were not being properly carried out, the king ordained that "the same statute be sent again into every county to be read and proclaimed four times a year, and kept in every particular as strictly as the great charters, upon pain of incurring the penalties therein limited."
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee

If they did I guess Bateye and the others would be square enough to own up to it.”
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis

Every day they exhibit a fiercer spirit—proofs of which have been already experienced by the Boeotians, the Chalcidians, and may speedily extend to others, unless they take in time wise and salutary precautions.
— from Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The floods of "Time's wide ocean" round us swell, Earth take of us thy long and last farewell!
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 by Various

The Corporation’s management has always shown its realization of the fact that “not by bread alone does man live”; that the mere paying of employees a living wage is not sufficient, and that even the least educated worker has an aesthetic sense, even though often uncultivated, that should be developed and pandered to within reasonable limits if the best good of the worker and the employer is to be achieved.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter