Another added by way of conclusion: “Yes, but do not forget that the god of drunkards chose for Pierre.” H2 anchor THE UNKNOWN We were speaking of adventures, and each one of us was relating his story of delightful experiences, surprising meetings, on the train, in a hotel, at the seashore.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In general, standards of behavior that are in the mores are not the subject of discussion, except so far as discussion is necessary to determine whether this or that act falls under one or the other of the accepted social sanctions.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For all I do know he may be a prince in disguise; he rather looks like one, by the way—like a prince who has abdicated in a fit of fastidiousness and has been in a state of disgust ever since.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The boy had never before strayed so far north as this from the nestling hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Sorrel, Wood sorrel, Succory, Orpine, Dandelyon, Endive, Strawberry leaves, Hawkweed, Lettice, Purslain, Sow Thistles, Violet leaves.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Within about half-an-hour, a fire became visible, twinkling on the beach of a small, deserted island South of Domdom; evidently some Dobuans were camping there.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

A small creek 10 mi. S of Dyerville, entering South Fork from the E just S of a bend in the river.
— from California Athabascan Groups by Martin A. Baumhoff

The Iraqi people have a democratically elected government, yet it is not adequately advancing national reconciliation, providing basic security, or delivering essential services.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

You get a surfeit of damp, earthy smell in your nostrils, a choking sensation in your throat, for the place is suffocating.
— from The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill

Her daughter, whose mind was in a state of derangement ever since she had lost her own child, according to the criminal's account, carried off the poor girl's infant, taking it for her own, of the reality of whose death she at times could not be persuaded.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

There was a kindly gentleness in Burrel's tone as he began, a sort of dreamy enthusiasm, slightly touched by a more gay and laughing spirit as he went on, together with a general leaven of the gentlemanly feeling that springs from a noble heart, softening and tempering the whole,--which united, addressed to Miss Delaware the most flattering compliment that woman can receive, by showing that he knew her to be worthy of very different conversation from that which he held with any one else.
— from Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol. 1 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He said hit done come ober a wire or a telugraph, or sumfin ob dat ere sort, and you must hab hit right-a-way.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy