In short, it was that glorious Indian summer of Californian history around which so much poetical haze still lingers,—that bland, indolent autumn of Spanish rule, so soon to be followed by the wintry storms of Mexican independence and the reviving spring of American conquest.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

like the latter their bodies are covered with little pustles or lumps, elevated above the ordinary Surface of the body; I never heard them make any Sound or noise, the Mockerson Snake or Copper head, a number of vipers, a variety of Lizzards, the toad bullfrog &c. common to the U. States are not to be found in this Country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

only. H2 anchor BOOK V. OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH H2 anchor CHAPTER I. OF THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

PORTCULLIS, "—of coin," some old coins have a portcullis stamped on their reverse (Whalley).
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

1 Students of Church history are well aware that this principle of interpretation was followed only too generously by Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, Chrysostom and others of the Church Fathers.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Another bank drove over Ealing, and surrounded a little island of survivors on Castle Hill, alive, but unable to escape.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Nearly every age and stage of culture has at some time or other sought with deep displeasure to free itself from the Greeks, because in their presence everything self-achieved, sincerely admired and apparently quite original, seemed all of a sudden to lose life and colour and shrink to an abortive copy, even to caricature.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Recalled, after some success, by the Tarentines, he recrossed the straits, harassed by the Carthaginian fleet: then, reinforced by the Samnites or Calabrians, he, a little too late, concluded to march on Rome.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

And we can only see one celestial hemisphere at a time.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

This is not surprising; for, though most of us regard him with an affection as real as can be felt for any one who has been in his grave nearly three hundred years, even our partiality stops short of calling him a model official.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Yes, sir, of course," he answered, quietly; and they went on to join the ladies.
— from The Wild Olive: A Novel by Basil King

the possessive case of a noun or pronoun is usually equivalent in meaning to the preposition of and the objective case, some grammarians, mistaking this equivalence of meaning for sameness of case, have asserted that all our possessives have a double form.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

C hicken Bill was not beautiful with his shock of coarse hair and foul pipe in mouth.
— from The Black Lion Inn by Alfred Henry Lewis

We have had stormy weather in Plymouth for some time; it has been a sort of Cape Hatteras, around which the winds have revelled, but now the sky is clear and the sea smooth.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880 by Various

The Temple was for great ceremonies and celebrations, like a mediaeval cathedral,--an object of pride and awe, adorned and glorious; the synagogue was a sort of church, humble and modest, for the use of the people in ordinary worship,--a place of religious instruction, where decent strangers were allowed to address the meetings, and where social congratulations and inquiries were exchanged.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

A slight shade of distress fell upon her, at his so often calling her a child.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Without expressing to Sloper this wish, he proposed, for the sake of consuming half an hour, to go into the Gallery and look at the company.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill