"Perhaps not a very suitable friend: Miss Polehampton may be right," said Lady Caroline.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

His education was the best then going; much school-divinity, Aristotelean logic, some Latin classics,—no inconsiderable insight into certain provinces of things: and Dante, with his earnest intelligent nature, we need not doubt, learned better than most all that was learnable.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

"I don't," said Liddy. CHAPTER XLV TROY'S ROMANTICISM When Troy's wife had left the house at the previous midnight his first act was to cover the dead from sight.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

If Peter the enchanter made the world so love Christ, what did Christ the innocent do to make Peter so love Him?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

(d) C'est ensuite que commence la partie la plus intéressante sans doute du processus, à savoir la collaboration avec l'auteur pour retravailler le manuscrit et l'amener à un niveau de qualité conforme aux attentes des deux parties.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[Pg 324] Unloading a Coffee Ship by Block and Tackle at the Port of New Orleans In Foreground—Loading Coffee by Means of an Automatic Traveling-Belt Conveyor, on Government Barges for St. Louis COFFEE-HANDLING SCENES ON THE WHARVES AT NEW ORLEANS
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

One night the stranger awoke—he slept with the doors of the balcony open—the curtain before it was raised by the wind, and he thought that a strange lustre came from the opposite neighbor's house; all the flowers shone like flames, in the most beautiful colors, and in the midst of the flowers stood a slender, graceful maiden—it was as if she also shone; the light really hurt his eyes.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He put her under the care of the woman in the waiting-room, who gave her some tea, took off her hat, and made her lie down on a couch, where she slept quite sound for more than an hour, until she was roused by some ladies coming in with a crying baby.
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Here we saw for the first time since leaving Coolgardie the tracks of wild aboriginals, and the first tracks of blacks, either wild or tame, since leaving Cutmore's Well.
— from Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie

Some of the peaks burnt and sparkled like cut diamonds—indeed, they may have been crystal, for all I know to the contrary—while others shot up like tongues of flame, as if the sun by its near approach had set them afire; then those further from his course shone all rosy, pink with shadows of tender violet.
— from The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now First Done Into Print by Frank Barrett

It was not unusual, if subsequent litigation came up, to cut blocks from marked trees to prove that such a corner was at such a place.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

When Maggie, Stella’s little coal black maid, at length reappeared, she was grinning with more than usual cunning.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

p. 127-142, p. 161-222,) and M. de St. Palaye, (Memoires sur la Chevalerie.)
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

The sunny lustre comes back to Violet's eyes, and her cheeks are abloom, her lips part in a half-smile.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

She had on some little child's hood, and an old josey-coat, which covered her all over.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

L'Ogre qui sentit les Couronnes d'or; vrayment, dit il, j'allois faire là un bel ouvrage, je voy bien que je bus trop hier au soir.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

Noble and Mason (1933:4) recorded incubation periods for six females from the same locality, and evidently kept under the same laboratory conditions, as 47, 41, 36, 29, 29, and 27 days.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch