My first glimpse of him was in a sort of public room in the town of Lahaina.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

you,” said Lisbeth fretfully, her overpowering sense of pain returning, now her wonder was gone.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If in our consideration of this problem we pay particular attention to this urban characteristic and to a like feature of the factory districts—where the conditions as to internal migrations are almost similar—we shall be amply repaid by [Pg 533] the discovery that in such settlements the result of internal shiftings of population receives its clearest expression.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Surely no one would believe that complexity was the trait that confused the student of Palmerston, Russell, and Gladstone.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

we have latterly so frequently had our Stock of provisions reduced to a minimum and Sometimes taken a Small tuck of fasting that 3 days full allowance exites no concern.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As in the whole Train of my Speculations, I have endeavoured as much as I am able to extinguish that pernicious Spirit of Passion and Prejudice, which rages with the same Violence in all Parties, I am still the more desirous of doing some Good in this Particular, because I observe that the Spirit of Party reigns more in the Country than in the Town.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Kala Nag knew that that advice was good, for the first time that he saw a shell burst he backed, screaming, into a stand of piled rifles, and the bayonets pricked him in all his softest places.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

A few hours later, again, it is striking when the phaetons, pony-carriages, and fancy equipages generally, are out, and loungers of each sex are leisurely promenading, or here and there placidly engaged in the inspection and occasional selection of "personal requisites,"—of some one or other of the variegated tissues or artificial adjuncts demanded by the modes of the period,—while the westering sun is now flooding the principal thoroughfare with a misty splendour, and on the walls, along on either side, weird shadows slanting and elongated, are being cast.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

There they saw furniture and smaller belongings of the great man, manuscripts and sketches and plans of some of his great works, and on the walls of one room a series of paintings representing dramatic incidents in his life.
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

Meanwhile a pinnace had been lowered, and into her the carpenter had built a species of platform raised some ten feet above the thwarts.
— from A Boy of the Dominion: A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

The great deficiency of the System for want of a Centre Point, 520 Constitutional superintendence of Police rests with the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 521 , 522 The increase of State Business, and the increase of Crimes, renders a delegation of subordinate management necessary, 520 The utility and absolute necessity of such a System explained, 521 , 522 The opinion of Foreigners of the Police of London, ibid.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

Whoever reads Lowe’s speeches of 1865-67 may do worse than glance at the same time at a book, [44] long since forgotten, which contains the efforts of a group of young University Liberals to refute the arguments used by him and by Lord Cairns, the strongest of his allies, in their opposition to schemes of parliamentary reform.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

If the surface needs replenishing or rounding up, as is frequently the case with new roads after considerable wear, the material should be applied in sections or patches, raked and rolled until hard and smooth.
— from The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Butler Hulbert

The sea was now strong, and deep, and swift of pace, rushing madly in; and he was cumbered with that weight of osier and of weed, which yet he never yielded, because it had been her trust.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

I have heard, their domestic symphony was liable to furious flaws,—let us hope at great distances apart:—that 'plates' in presence of the lackeys, actual crockery or metal, have been known to fly from end to end of the dinner-table; nay they mention 'knives' (though only in the way of oratorical action); and Voltaire has been heard to exclaim, the sombre and majestic voice of him risen to a very high pitch: 'Ne me regardez tant de ces yeux hagards et louches, Don't fix those haggard sidelong eyes on me in that way!'—mere shrillness of pale rage presiding over the scene.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

What he claimed, he got; and that was the southern line, commencing six miles south of Pigeon River, and running south of the true line to Rainy Lake.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

If Frederick the Great after the battle of Kollin,(*) and the raising of the siege of Prague retreated in three columns that was done not out of choice, but because the position of his forces, and the necessity of covering Saxony, left him no alternative, Buonaparte after the battle of Brienne,(**) sent Marmont back to the Aube, whilst he himself passed the Seine, and turned towards Troyes; but that this did not end in disaster, was solely owing to the circumstance that the Allies, instead of pursuing divided their forces in like manner, turning with the one part (Bluecher) towards the Marne, while with the other (Schwartzenberg), from fear of being too weak, they advanced with exaggerated caution.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Our people went ashore as usual, and with them Mr Banks and Dr Solander; who, in search of plants, repaired to the woods.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr