H2 anchor COMBRAY Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway when we arrived there every year in Holy Week, was no more than a church epitomising the town, representing it, speaking of it and for it to the horizon, and as one drew near, gathering close about its long, dark cloak, sheltering from the wind, on the open plain, as a shepherd gathers his sheep, the woolly grey backs of its flocking houses, which a fragment of its mediaeval ramparts enclosed, here and there, in an outline as scrupulously circular as that of a little town in a primitive painting.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

At the request of my son, I forgave the Rānā’s offences, and gave a gracious farmān that should satisfy him, and impressed on it the mark of my auspicious palm.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

"On Thursday last, having come home from a visit to the emir Sulman, I found the remnants of the Holy Scriptures, torn in pieces, as there is reason to believe, by order of the bishop.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

This done, the patron of the silver bow [pg 096] A phantom raised, the same in shape and show With great Æneas; such the form he bore, And such in fight the radiant arms he wore.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Many people of consequence were summoned in from their residences.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

952 This incident itself was an omen of what was about to occur, and so was the fact that one of the sailors 953 swam off towards the fillet and snatched it from the reed.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

I learned from it also this, in particular, that being abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in the dry season was almost always accompanied with such storms, so I found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in September and October.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the nativs make great use of those Skins in forming their robes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"In consequence, I was discharged, lost the salary yet due to me, though the Government had approved of my official labours, and I was adjudged as having forfeited even my claim upon the States Institution for the Relief of Orphans and Widows of German School Teachers, as well as my right to the 133 florins which I had already paid into that Institution.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Its mountainous inland districts have been so isolated from the rest of the Greek world and its coast regions have so strongly preserved their individuality that language, blood and national feeling have been maintained in quite a different way from elsewhere in the Greek world.
— from Hellenism in Asia Minor by Karl Dieterich

“You can hardly see it for the rain.
— from The Trail of the Green Doll A Judy Bolton Mystery by Margaret Sutton

They are no doubt symbolic of occult truths, and much time and labour might be spent in formulating their relationship.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

But not soon shall I forget that ride down the shore with the sea so rippling and moon-blanched, and the boom of the surf on the rocks, and the peaks of the island standing bold and dark against the white stars.
— from Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey

Stir in flour to render it of the consistency of pound cake.
— from The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

No smoke issued from the roof, and not the slightest sound was to be heard.
— from The Young Alaskans by Emerson Hough

According to her ideas, he must have suspected that this was her own favorite chair and have seized it for that reason, just as he would have loved to take her in his arms.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 2 by Charles de Bernard

To the novelist there comes, at the inception of a book, a period in which the things and people around him recede into the background before the people and things he seeks to create; and it is scarcely to be wondered at if at these times the writer's vision, which is turned, so to speak, inward, fails to realize the significance of the scenes being enacted beneath his mortal eyes.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

[413] "I confess," replied Lothario, "the affair lay nearer my heart than it reasonably ought: so I formed the resolution of again riding out, and actually seeing the person whose renewed young image had affected me with such a pleasing illusion.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe