Where, raised as Bráhmans ordered, stood Piled sandal logs, and scented wood, The body of the king was set High on a deerskin coverlet.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

" She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white material, without a single ornament on her besides her wedding-ring, as if she were under a vow to be different from all other women; and Will sat down opposite her at two yards' distance, the light falling on his bright curls and delicate but rather petulant profile, with its defiant curves of lip and chin.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“I am not conscious, madam,” said he, “of any defect there; nor am I, I hope, suspected of any such.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Even when he has caught his fish and landed with them, the buyer must still not address him by his proper name, but must only call him mwele; for even then, if the spirits were to hear his proper name, they would either bear it in mind and serve him out another day, or they might so mar the fish he had caught that he would get very little for them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In Smolénsk, at the Malákhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town—and Smolénsk held out all day long.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Adverb quō, whither Conjunction an , or , introducing the second half of a double question, as Is he a Roman or a Gaul , Estne Romanus an Gallus?
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

( De Stael, Considerations, i. c. 23. ) Brilliancies, of valour and of wit, stroll here observant: a Dame de Stael, leaning most probably on the arm of her Narbonne.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

he asked, seating himself on a divan and watching her movements with a bland stare.
— from The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

"Did you notice that China silk she had on at dinner?" said Aunt Gwendolin; "there must be an end to all that; a ban must be put on everything Chinese."
— from The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West by Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret) Teskey

no matter who was troubling it, upon which, in one of the uncontrollable fits of rage to which he was sometimes subject, the Cesarewitsch seized hold of a dish full of caviar which stood on the table and threw its contents in the face of Wahl.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

On the first day I travelled unhindered till noon, when I stopped in open country that seemed uninhabited for ages, only that half a mile to the left, on a shaded sward, was a large stone house of artistic design, coated with tinted harling, the roof of red Ruabon tiles, and timbered gables.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

[122] or more, no pardon to affect the status of the divorced persons; (4) two years' desertion; (5) when the husband or wife shall have become a habitual drunkard; "and (6) the circuit courts may, in their discretion, upon application as in other cases, divorce from the bonds of matrimony any party who is a resident of this state, and whose husband or wife shall have obtained a divorce in any other state."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

A white thread, a , is stretched horizontally on a dark board (fig. 97).
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

I do not speak here of actual deeds of sin—no one can do or join in an impure deed without knowing that he is sinning, but many think that there is no great harm in listening to and laughing at what others say.
— from Boys: their Work and Influence by Anonymous

The Snark heels over and down, the rail takes it green, and Hermann and I, clutching the precious stove-pipe, are swept down into the lee-scuppers.
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

No one knew who she was because she had cut off her curls, and she had on a dress I never saw before.
— from The Girl Scouts at Home; or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day by Katherine Keene Galt

But silence had returned to that silent place, and, after straining his ears for a considerable time, he could hear nothing but the solitary hoot of a distant departing train.
— from The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton