Such estates were called first “repartimientos.”
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

And there she stood, staring at me in the most unceremonious manner, her keen black eyes glancing obliquely to every corner of the room, which she examined with critical exactness.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Time Steals ere we can effect them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

My boat was so encumbered with chests, boxes, and instruments, that the space left for me was very confined, and I suffered from heat and want of air; but these were trifles compared with the mosquitoes.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

In their return, the fleet was driven on the rocky shores of Anatolia; and Justinian applauded the obedience of the Euxine, which had involved so many thousands of his subjects and enemies in a common shipwreck: but the tyrant was still insatiate of blood; and a second expedition was commanded to extirpate the remains of the proscribed colony.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The second EDITION, with considerable ADDITIONS By Captain Charles Johnson .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

But his curiosity had been roused; he wanted awfully to see if she ever would care.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

He told the story o'er and o'er; It was his full heart's only lore: A prophet on the Sabbath-day Had touched his sightless eyes with clay, And made him see who had been blind.
— from Poems by John Hay

The single exception, which came from Sidaru, has a handle of walrus ivory, yellowed with age and grease.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

Soon everything was clean and in order; there was a pleasant smell of steeping herbs through the house.
— from Pembroke: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Along the hill above us, sure enough, we could see a long gash running a great part of the hill near the summit, in the black frontage of it.
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

It is the old battle, of which history supplies such abundant illustration; which brought Parmenides and Protagoras upon the lists at opposite ends on the field of philosophy; which Bacon profoundly avoided by assigning separate empires, without common boundary, to science and religion; but which his modern disciples have rashly renewed, by invading the realm left sacred by him.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

Then suddenly the mayor who won that year's battle died, and a special election was called.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

I keep hoping and waiting someone else will come to inquire, will bring a message.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

West Street leads to Battery Park, the Produce, and Stock Exchanges, which Colonel Harris desired Mr. Searles and his daughter Gertrude to see in the busy part of the day.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

Something, perhaps, always must be neglected; the lesser ought then to give way to the greater; and since every work can have but a limited time allotted {179} to it (for even supposing a whole life to be employed about one picture, it is still limited), it appears more reasonable to employ that time to the best advantage, in contriving various methods of composing the work,—in trying different effect of light and shadow,—and employing the labour of correction in heightening by a judicious adjustment of the parts the effects of the whole,—than that the time should be taken up in minutely finishing those parts.
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir