"So he is promoted," said the darning-needle, "while I remain here; I am too fine, but that is my pride, and what do I care?"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Every ship had its proper station assigned, according to that prescribed form which was appointed in Spain; it was present death to any one who forsook his station.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The air of well-fed content in the former, and of expectancy well primed in the latter, furnishes an audience which, though not readily won, is prepared for the best, while the speaker himself is pretty sure to have been chosen for his gifts of oratory.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

She, dear creature, anticipating my vista, had merely slipped on a dress, without a corset, and told her husband that he was so insatiate that she was obliged to be ready at a moment’s notice to satisfy his inordinate passion, so she had only to take off her gown to be at her ease.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The family of Bawde have for a crest: "A satyr's head in profile sable, with wings to the side of the head or, the tongue hanging out of his mouth gules."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He then withdrew to the hall, and seating himself in princely state, ordered the Herald to be admitted to his presence.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

But poor Mrs Clay who, with all her merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty, I really think poor Mrs Clay may be staying here in perfect safety.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Flora is about the equivalent of a cattle-scow; but when the Union Company find it inconvenient to keep a contract and lucrative to break it, they smuggle her into passenger service, and “keep the change.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Ye lambent flames of the soul, her offspring fires: That are my soul herself in pangs sublime Rising and flying to heaven before her time: What doth tempt you forth To drown in the south or shiver in the frosty north?
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

If a stranger rides along the [Pg 129] street, he is pretty sure to be stared at; but not with quite the same expression, as in the last village he came through.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Will you, I say, be satisfied with seeing him in perfect safety without attempting to speak to or converse with him?’
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

Certain books that she read, certain conversations on the subject of heredity that she heard in Petersburg society fed her terror.
— from The Princess And The Jewel Doctor 1905 by Robert Hichens

175. INGREDIENTS.—A neck of mutton about 5 or 6 lbs., 3 carrots, 3 turnips, 2 onions, a large bunch of sweet herbs, including parsley; salt and pepper to taste; a little sherry, if liked; 3 quarts of water.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Tuesday, July 31st .—This being a fast-day, in memory of the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem, he attended the service held in Prescot Street at the residence of the late Mr Cohen.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady