In these days of cheap art there is no reason why we should be without pictures of some kind everywhere, and they should be chosen carefully, either for their beauty or for the lesson they teach.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

She was smaller and younger than our Pup’s dam, but with the same kindly eyes and the same salty-dripping coat.
— from Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

She had seen no one she knew either at the station at Bathgate or in the train.
— from The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

On leaving the hills, there lay stretched at our feet a boundless plain, on which is situate Kairwan, extending also to Susa, and leagues around.
— from Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson

The two names show that it was a nomen gentile , and that the tribe so known extended along the southern coast.
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

As the second King of Prussia found nothing that so kindled enthusiasm as the spectacle of a grenadier over six feet high, and gave extravagant sums for a new specimen to add to his living museum of a regiment, so the retired picture-dealer was roused to passion-pitch only by some canvas in perfect preservation, untouched since the master laid down the brush; and what was more, it must be a picture of the painter's best time.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

Punch accordingly prophecies a similar evolution in the character of the South Kensington Exhibition, and the sequel proved that here, at any rate, he was a true prophet.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

As the second King of Prussia found nothing that so kindled enthusiasm as the spectacle of a grenadier over six feet high, and gave extravagant sums for a new specimen to add to his living museum of a regiment, so the retired picture-dealer was roused to passion-pitch only by some canvas in perfect preservation, untouched since the master laid down the brush; and what was more, it must be a picture of the painter’s best time.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Norman architects, then, most likely knew that they were building over a graveyard of some kind, even as the Saxons may have been aware that their own cemetery was superimposed upon a still older one [220] .
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson