He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told them that these three held together in the world, and by that union they became crystallized into a precious jewel, clearer than a diamond of the first water—a jewel, whose splendor had a value even in the sight of God, in whose brightness all things are dim.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Strangely enough, Pushkin appeared anxious to deceive the public as to the real cause of his sudden disappearance from the capital; for in an Ode to Ovid composed about this time he styles himself a "voluntary exile."
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Ang suldádu tísu kaáyu ug láwas, A soldier has a very erect body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She and Ethan looked at each other in silence; then she said, as she had said the night before: “I guess it's about time for supper.” H2 anchor VII Ethan went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The crime was atrocious: yet the punishment is reckoned by Suetonius (c. 9) among the acts in which Galba showed himself acer, vehemens, et in delictis coercendis immodicus.
— 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

On the other hand, the findings show that the duties which run to such high ad valorem equivalents are prohibitory, since the goods are not imported, but that the prices of domestic fabrics are not raised by the full amount of duty.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Their suppers however are very elegant: they have always fish, and sometimes soup, roasted poultry, and in the proper season, game—pease, cauliflowers, and asparagus, almost the whole year round.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

Ferdinand de Soto, a native of Jerez, whose only heritage was his sword and shield, had accompanied various expeditions to Darien and Nicaragua, and in 1532 joined Pizarro in the conquest of Peru, where he acquired great wealth, with which he returned to Spain.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

She has a very excellent violin, a Stradivari , and in the cantabile draws from it a tolerable tone; but that is her only merit.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

This taken singly has a very extraordinary look.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

This solution, if applied to polished steel by means of a camel-hair pencil, rapidly evaporates, leaving a film of gold adhering to the steel, which, when burnished with any hard substance, has a very elegant appearance.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

You," speaking to Skinny, "and Ophelia stay here and visit each other a while!"
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

She had a very effective method of punishment if he persisted in holding out.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 2 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Lincoln sometimes had a very effective way of dealing with men who asked troublesome or improper questions.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne