The whole time there was a smell of roast meat and the Finn’s pipe, but once Klimov smelt the strong smell of incense.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What wild schemes of revenge my brain engendered while, with a looking-glass in my hand, I was groaning over the shameful havoc performed by this audacious priest!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As we passed over a rising ground which commanded something of a prospect, the sounds of rustic merriment now and then reached our ears: the squire paused for a few moments and looked around with an air of inexpressible benignity.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

" "Yes," said Holgrave, "I dig, and hoe, and weed, in this black old earth, for the sake of refreshing myself with what little nature and simplicity may be left in it, after men have so long sown and reaped here.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At this time, as some old readers may recollect, the genteel world had been thrown into a considerable state of excitement by two events, which, as the papers say, might give employment to the gentlemen of the long robe.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The Government Clerks.] BRIDAU, father of Philippe and Joseph Bridau; one of the secretaries of Roland, Minister of the Interior in 1792, and the right arm of succeeding ministers.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

NINES, “dressed up to the NINES ,” in a showy or recherché manner.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

343 CHAPTER XXIII Assassination of Alexander the Second of Russia (March 13, 1881) 359 CHAPTER XXIV Assassination of William McKinley, President of the United States (September 6, 1901) 381 CHAPTER XXV Assassinations of Alexander I. and Draga, King and Queen of Servia (June 10-11, 1903) 399 {x} {xi} Illustrations Julius Cæsar Frontispiece To face page Philip of Macedon
— from Famous Assassinations of History from Philip of Macedon, 336 B. C., to Alexander of Servia, A. D. 1903 by Francis Johnson

He put an armful of books on the bed and said “Good night” as confidently as if he knew perfectly well that those books were exactly my style of reading matter.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Since our reliance must be upon the disposition and tact of the individual in the particular case, there is no test of the success of an education more important than the extent to which it nurtures a type of mind competent to [Pg 216] maintain an economical balance of the unconscious and the conscious.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

"I'll take it stewed or roast, Mrs. Freyne, so long as it's wet.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

There is a scattering of lakes, gentle slopes, stretches of rolling moorlands, and bits of wet meadow or arctic tundra.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

So we went, followed by our hungry clients, and, in addition to many more things, to our delight found a great store of rice, mealies and other grain, some of which was ground into meal.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The magnet, I was assured, did not require nor consume any substance whatever , but generated its electricity spontaneously, and in equal measure in all varieties of weather, so that the wildest storm of lightning, hail, snow or rain makes no difference in the working of the Telegraph.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley