On seeing her poverty the Sultan felt less inclined than ever to keep his word, and asked his Vizier’s advice, who counselled him to set so high a value on the Princess that no man living could come up to it.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

" I asked my divine guru to shed further light on the high and mysterious causal world.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same as when, a child, she sat on the schoolroom form listening with thoughtful eyes to the words of the Christian teacher.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And she too used to look admiringly at my sketches, and with the same frank loquacity she would tell me things that happened, and she would confide her domestic secrets to me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

salbid, salbids n 1 salvage from s.t. destroyed, [ 855 ] saved for later use.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When they had gone some few li , Sun killed the ladies, and then saw that they were foxes.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The face shed fire, looked in the darkness like a flame shaped as a man's face.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

On his first trip to London as a youth of seventeen, Francis Lockier, the future dean of Peterborough, although an odd-looking boy of awkward manners, thrust himself into the coffee-house that he might gaze on the celebrated men of the day.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

Grundall Saltergate for lads eating, etc., £0 8 6 Then comes a gap of about eight years, several pages having been torn out.
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

They stop for lunch along the shore, and then rest and chat.
— from A Grandpa's Notebook Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication by Meyer Moldeven

To-day this portion of its foundation is being withdrawn, and conservatives are sadly frightened lest the whole social equilibrium be destroyed; [16] but we repeat, this diminution of the number of errors is precisely what constitutes progress, and in some sort defines it.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Finding itself the better for this dissimulation, a source of prosperity indeed, each race, sifted by the struggle for life, is considered to have preserved those best-endowed with mimetic powers and to have allowed the others to become extinct, thus gradually converting into a fixed characteristic what at first was but a casual acquisition.
— from The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre

I should feel like a lonely wanderer, cut off from the past.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Signs of the Weather Silk, Black, to Revive to Clean to Dye ( 1 )-( 2 ) Embroidery, Stitches in Flowered, to Clean to Remove Grease Spots from to Renovate to Restore Colour of Thread, How Made Various Kinds of ( 1 )-( 2 ) Silver, to Clean Nitrate of, Uses of Poisoning by, Treatment of to Remove Ink Stains from Simmering Meat Simplicity and Grace, Desirability of Singing, Utility of Single Pool (Billiards) Sinks, to Disinfect Sir Roger de Coverley Dance Described Skeleton Fruits Leaves Skin, Diseases of, How generally Caused Necessity of Keeping it Clean to Soften Skittle Pool (Billiards) Sky, Colour of, a Sign of the Weather Skylarks, Care of Sleep, How to Obtain of Children, Duration ( 1 )-( 2 )
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

We may, also, believe that a part formerly of high importance has often been retained (as the tail of an aquatic animal by its terrestrial descendants), though it has become of such small importance that it could not, in its present state, have been acquired by natural selection,—a power which acts solely by the preservation of profitable variations in the struggle for life.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

The bishop complained to Wolsey, who sent for Latimer, and inquired what he had said.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude