She is playing Robin Adair at this moment— his favourite.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

When the woman has recovered, she is painted red and white, her head covered with feathers, and returns to the camp.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This used to be the language which he held, and he used to show in practice, really altering men’s habits, and deferring in all things rather to the principles of nature than to those of law; saying that he was adopting the same fashion of life as Hercules had, preferring nothing in the world to liberty; and saying that everything belonged to the wise, and advancing arguments such as I mentioned just above.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

vii): Si pili nati sunt qui non debuerunt, tenuis acus ferrea ad similitudinem spathae lata in ignem coniicienda est: deinde candens, sublata palpebra sic ut eius perniciosi pili in conspectum curantis veniant, sub ipsis pilorum radicibus ab angulo immittenda est ut
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

A noun may be used similarly in predicate relation after a transitive verb, as well as after an intransitive verb (20): Ŝi nomis sian filinon Mario , she named her daughter Mary.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

8): Si pili nati sunt qui non debuerunt tenuis acus ferrea, ad similitudinem spathae lata, in ignem coniicienda est; deinde candens, sublata, palpebra sic ut eius perniciosi pili in conspectum curantis veniant, sub ipsis pilorum radicibus ab angulo immittenda est, ut ea tertiam partem palpebrae transsuat; deinde iterum, tertioque usque ad alterum angulum; quo fit ut omnes pilorum radices adustae emoriantur.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The decoction thereof, and of wild Succory, made with wine, and taken, helps the wind cholic and hardness of the spleen; it procures rest and sleep, hinders venery and venerous dreams, cooling heats, purges the stomach, increases blood, and helps the diseases of the reins and bladder.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

a fiend, A little fiend that scoffs incessantly, There sits in parchment robe arrayed, and by
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

All this stage effect of situation, light, color, sound, is purely romantic, and even melodramatic, but of a poetic quality that melodrama rarely exhibits, and thoroughly reflective of the poet's "eternal passion, eternal pain."
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

These are then sown in the middle of the bed, and the common seed is planted round about them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Besides, would such a strangely impassive person resent any little indiscretion in which his wife might choose to indulge?
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

The white marble slabs marking the individual graves stand in precise rows as an army quietly at salute.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

Many people think that she has described Sidonie's face, way of speaking, and lively imagination, and mixed up with this her own religious and political opinions; for Sidonie is profoundly religious , and takes very little interest in politics."
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes

I only remember that, in some form of speech, I publicly resigned all his honorable gifts.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

To what might they not have prompted such a genius—to what, indeed?" So sublime was the flight of fancy suggested by this interrogatory, that Miss Copland shook her head slowly in poetic rapture, and gazed fondly for some seconds upon the carpet, apparently unconscious of Lord Aspenly's presence.
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A form of expression he uses, when he wishes to say that my proposition or suggestion is perfectly ridiculous, and not to be thought of for a moment.
— from Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

2. Shell of 6 trebles between 3d and 4th trebles of shell in previous row, and treble in treble; repeat.
— from Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet by Anonymous

Her masts were gone, her back was broken, and her bow splintered in pieces, rigging and tatters of sails hung about in confusion.
— from The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer with Captain Hawes by E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd) Smith

Threads of weft of every hue that is seen in piled rugs are employed in these pieces; yet the colouring never appears the same, since there are lacking the lustre and deep wealth of tones due to the length of pile, in which appears an almost imperceptible gradation from the ends that are exposed to the light and have incurred the mellowing influence of the elements to the part which retains more of the original colours and seems darker, because it is more concealed.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

While the water slowly began to crisp under the breeze, the horizon line began to waver; the clear, sharply-defined line which marked the division between sea and sky seemed in places raised and undulating—the first presage of coming fog.
— from Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 by Karl Spindler