“When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden, the waves in a strong gale, when she is going large, seem always to slip from beneath her—which appears very strange to a landsman—and this is what is called riding , in sea phrase.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Then they began to wander merrily about searching for nuts, climbing trees, peeping curiously into the empty birds' nests, and playing hide and seek from behind the trees.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Russia it is struggling for, but the chances are against it.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

It will be remembered that when De Grasse sailed from Brest, March 22, 1781, for the West Indies, there went with his fleet a division of five ships-of-the-line under Suffren.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

“Because if it was any other coloured sack, the case must begin over again,” said Father Brown; “but if it was a light brown sack, why, the case is finished.”
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Yet all thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: Benson and Chesterton had popularized Huysmans and Newman; Shaw had sugar-coated Nietzsche and Ibsen and Schopenhauer.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Ági sa kaláyu ang nakapay-ut (nakapapay-ut) sa íyang láwas, Scars from burning caused wrinkles on his body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One had but to pass a week in Florida, or on any of a hundred huge ocean steamers, or walk through the Place Vendôme, or join a party of Cook's tourists to Jerusalem, to see that the woman had been set free; but these swarms were ephemeral like clouds of butterflies in season, blown away and lost, while the reproductive sources lay hidden.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Between the parts of France and Great Britain most remote from one another, the returns might be expected, at least, once in the year; and even this trade would so far be at least equally advantageous, as the greater part of the other branches of our foreign European trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

These canoes are of the largest size, exceeding the north canoe in length by several feet, besides being much broader and deeper.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Sir Francis Burdett dined here yesterday en famille , and we passed two very pleasant hours.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

The bulbs and roots were secured from beneath the surface of the ground by means of the most primitive of all agricultural implements and the progenitor of all succeeding ones, the digging-stick .
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

The Academy of the Belles-Lettres was put on the same footing; both submitted to the immediate control of the secretary of state, and to the revolting distinction of honoraries , pensionaries , and pupils .
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire

He feels that he can neither lead nor help himself; and then he plunges hopelessly into the workaday world and endeavours to ward off such feelings by study.
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Upon a small side table, however, stood a heavy oxidized silver frame, but empty, while lying on the floor beneath a couch was the photograph it had contained, which had apparently been taken hastily out, torn first in half and then in half again, and cast away.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

Or steal from beauty's lip th' ambrosial kiss, Paint the domestic grief, or social bliss[10]?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

SEE For better, for worse.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Then turning to the other widow, he drew the old shawl from beneath his frock, and gave it to her, saying, "I give you joy, dame, that this hath escaped the flames.
— from Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing