I found several other uncommon plants specemines of which I preserved.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She colored with surprise, but put out her hand with a smile of unmistakable pleasure, saying— "I did not know it was you: I had no thought of seeing you here.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The jeerings, provocative gambollings of that Patriot Suburb, which is all out on the streets now, are hard to endure; unwashed Patriots jeering in sulky sport; one unwashed Patriot 'seizing the General by the boot' to unhorse him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

'Tis sure, from those improper Liberties you mentioned, that a sort of undistinguishing People shall banish from their Drawing-Rooms the best-bred Men in the World, and condemn those that do not.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Cauteries and hot irons are to be used [4288] in the suture of the crown, and the seared or ulcerated place suffered to run a good while.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We could scarcely repeat the trip and make the same observations upon pheasants, so rapidly is this group of birds approaching extinction.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

This frank surrender of untenable positions showed the highest skill in negotiation, a business for which Van Buren was perhaps better equipped than any American of his time.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

For if we lost the kind of perception that we associate with fear, if our imagination closed itself automatically to the suggestion of all sorts of ugly possibilities, should we not find ourselves soon in the midst of difficulties akin to those of the hero of the German tale of the man who felt no pain?
— from The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Various

A rather large family, widely distributed, including Olive, Lilac, and Privet; trees and shrubs; leaves mostly opposite; without stipules; flowers perfect or imperfect, with two to four divisions, calyx usually small or lacking, corolla with separate or united petals, sometimes lacking; stamens two or four, on the corolla, ovary superior, two-celled, with a short style or none; fruit a capsule, berry, stone-fruit, or wing-fruit.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

The convention was called to order, and Mrs. Latimer, thrilling with the sense of unknown possibilities, sat in the crowded gallery, and settled expectantly to the excitement of the balloting.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman