S. P. Pandit, Bombay, 1879; Vaidya, 1895; South Indian recension, ed. Pischel, 1875; trans.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

She is really excessively pretty; however you may choose to question the allurements of a lady no longer young, I must, for my own part, declare that I have seldom seen so lovely a woman as Lady Susan.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

“I was about eighteen years of age and had succeeded in raising enough produce to justify a trip down the Ohio to the markets at New Orleans.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

He knew it as children always know things their elders do not suspect them of remarking, but which, falling upon their little ears sink deep into their tiny minds, and lying there like seeds in rich earth, put forth shoots and press upwards until they pierce through the darkness and flower and bear fruit in the light of day.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thee speaks in riddles,” ejaculated Peggy, wonderingly.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Again, the identification of the second or sub-Mycenean period with that of Achaean settlement is rendered extremely probable by the resemblance which deposits of this period show to objects and customs described in the Homeric poems, e.g. in regard to armature and the use of fibulae and cremation.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Despite the nationalistic shift in Romanian external policy during this period, the Romanians were careful to indicate to Moscow that, although they wished to conduct their affairs with a minimum of Soviet interference, they had no intention either of abandoning their adherence to the Soviet bloc or of diminishing their efforts toward the achievement of all basic communist aims in the country.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

In other words, there is in individual development (ontogeny) some condensed recapitulation of the steps in racial evolution (phylogeny).
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

They relate to bills and notes, stocks, shipping, insurance, real estate, pawned goods, merchandise, etc.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

"The secret," he said, leaning confidentially over the back of Miss Wellington's chair, "is to be sparin' of the yeast; and then there is somethin' in raisin' 'em proper.
— from Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by Lawrence Perry

In places, the shore is rendered exceedingly picturesque, by the presence of irregular and beautifully white sand-hills.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff