She was neatly, but very quietly attired; so much so, indeed, that it seemed as though her dress, if it had been worn by one who imparted fewer graces of her own to it, might have looked poor and shabby.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

These monsters, of hideous form, with crooked beaks and talons, huge wings, and the faces of women, the Argonauts, and especially Calais and Zethes, pursued as far as the islands called Strophades, in the Ionian sea, where Iris appearing to them, enjoined them to pursue the Harpies no further, promising that Phineus should no longer be persecuted by them.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Passing now to the West, we find the island of Kayleula, which, together with two or three smaller islands, to its South, Kuyawa, Manuwata, and Nubiyam, form a ‘Kula community ’ of its own.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

As I am a living soul, I thought I saw him sink into the earth.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"It is our pleasure (such is the Imperial style) that all the nations, which are governed by our clemency and moderation, should steadfastly adhere to the religion which was taught by St. Peter to the Romans; which faithful tradition has preserved; and which is now professed by the pontiff Damasus, and by Peter, bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic holiness.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I said I thought I should like it better than the other house; and Harris said, “Oh, yes,” it would be all right, and we needn’t look at the man with the red hair; besides, the poor fellow couldn’t help having red hair.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Now since the ends are plainly many, and of these we choose some with a view to others (wealth, for instance, musical instruments, and, in general, all instruments), it is clear that all are not final: but the Chief Good is manifestly something final; and so, if there is some one only which is final, this must be the object of our search: but if several, then the most final of them will be it.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I was not aware of this inference, and said, Yes, truly, sir, I think I should, if you commanded it.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

My celebrity was so immature that I should not have recognized this allusion to it if Reggie had not gone on even more genially.
— from The Belfry by May Sinclair

She sat up, and in chilled surprise I thought I saw recognition in her stare.
— from The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The idea of property was forming in their minds, but it was still in that immature state which pertains to the Middle Status of barbarism.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

He also appropriated to himself the office of Justice of Chester, which the conspirators had showed such indignation that Ireland should possess.
— from Under One Sceptre, or Mortimer's Mission: The Story of the Lord of the Marches by Emily Sarah Holt

Do not say indiscreet things in small, informal discussions.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

"All that I can now say is that, if she cannot follow you to your free republic, she will take the veil."
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

Can such an ingrained uncleanness, can such an infinite spot in the immortal soul, be so lightly dashed out?
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Seoane, [219] writing on the bulls of Galicia, says that these animals were found wild in Central Europe up to the sixteenth century, and that the Spaniards imported them into South America, and thus brought into existence the immense herds now to be found between the Andes and the Atlantic coast, and called toros cimarrones .
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

On Bank Holiday itself things were pretty quiet until the evening, and then we had four accidents in two hours—an old lady of seventy-nine with a fractured femur, a baby with a scalp wound (fell from its chair on to the fender), a little child badly scalded, and a very big and fat woman with a fractured tibia and fibula, who, I was horrified to find, was expecting a baby to arrive very shortly, and as none of my nurses had had any experience of such things, nor had the present night sister, I felt obliged to keep within hail both night and day; but one Sunday I thought it seemed safe to go out to church, and another sister promised to attend if required, and sure enough she was required, but all went well, and the mother made a good recovery, and I think was rather pleased to go out with a fine healthy baby, having been saved all the expense of her confinement.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence